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Electric car home charger cost

RodneyCharltonTrotta
RodneyCharltonTrotta Posts: 14,827
edited May 23 in Not Sports Related
Have been quoted £600 for charger and £400 for installation for an Easee One charger and surge protection.

(Excluding VAT)

Seems a bit steep to me. Anyone got this at home and if so is this about right or should I shop around? Cheers 

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  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 28,623
    Try Virtus Energy, run by PV’s son.
  • cafcdave123
    cafcdave123 Posts: 11,491
    Get one of the portable ones for about £150 and charge it at other peoples houses 
  • Phantom_User
    Phantom_User Posts: 655
    We booked ours through these people:
    https://www.smarthomecharge.co.uk/

    It was just before the government grant expired and they were one of the only ones who could guarantee getting it complete before this date.

    the quote was easily done online and the work was done with no fuss
  • Greenie Junior
    Greenie Junior Posts: 3,881
    RodneyCharltonTrotta said:
    Have been quoted £600 for charger and £400 for installation for an Easee One charger and surge protection.

    (Excluding VAT)

    Seems a bit steep to me. Anyone got this at home and if so is this about right or should I shop around? Cheers 
    About right. Maybe even ever so slightly on the cheap side. 
  • alanscoachdriver
    alanscoachdriver Posts: 586
    You could look at Octopus Energy for the installation

    https://octopus.energy/order/ev-charger/products/

    or Podpoint directly. If you register an account with Podpoint and put a charger in your basket but don’t checkout in a week or so they will email you a discount code of £75 or maybe more. 


    When I’ve looked before you will be doing very well to beat £1000 including VAT.
  • Notts_Addick
    Notts_Addick Posts: 376
    Phantom_User said:
    We booked ours through these people:
    https://www.smarthomecharge.co.uk/

    It was just before the government grant expired and they were one of the only ones who could guarantee getting it complete before this date.

    the quote was easily done online and the work was done with no fuss
    We used them as well and can’t recommend highly enough. Really easy to use their website, answered any questions we had and best of all their engineer turned up on time and did the work in about an hour with no fuss at all.
  • Brownie12
    Brownie12 Posts: 1,525
    edited July 2024
    I have a company EV so they paid for the install and charger. Was £1300.  £1k sound a good price to me. 
  • O-Randy-Hunt
    O-Randy-Hunt Posts: 10,642
    That's the going rate. Mine was a grand a few years ago and then £300 off from the government grant.
  • Rothko
    Rothko Posts: 18,802
    ours was £1,200 for a Hypervolt and all the cabling required 

  • Justin20474
    Justin20474 Posts: 756
    Our was £1200 inc vat from Gilbert and Stamper.

    https://www.gilbertandstamper.com/
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  • ct_addick
    ct_addick Posts: 4,333
    Paid $1700 (US Dollars which is 1300 pounds) over here in USA for installation and wall charger but have a larger home so he had to go 50 feet form breaker box to garage.....will get $1400 back in rebates.......bought a BMW IX which includes 2 years of free charging at Electrify America chargers.....travelled 350 miles last weekend all free :) 
  • RodneyCharltonTrotta
    RodneyCharltonTrotta Posts: 14,827
    Thanks everyone, much appreciated. CL always comes up trumps  👍 
  • R0TW
    R0TW Posts: 1,673
    I am in the wrong game.
    A grand to do an hours work putting a charger in.
    Let’s say £400 on materials, testing and certifying.
    Two of those a day would be handy.
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,850
    We just use extension lead coming out of our garage 
  • valleynick66
    valleynick66 Posts: 4,890
    and at that cost do you save much money on ‘fuel’ costs when the car itself is also more expensive?

    Whilst it’s the right choice is it the economic choice with low mileage?
  • Greenie Junior
    Greenie Junior Posts: 3,881
    R0TW said:
    I am in the wrong game.
    A grand to do an hours work putting a charger in.
    Let’s say £400 on materials, testing and certifying.
    Two of those a day would be handy.
    You couldn’t be more wrong if you tried 🤣🤣
  • cafcfan
    cafcfan Posts: 11,198
    Get yourself a Maserati Folgore - comes with a free wall box.
  • R0TW
    R0TW Posts: 1,673
    Greenie Junior said:
    R0TW said:
    I am in the wrong game.
    A grand to do an hours work putting a charger in.
    Let’s say £400 on materials, testing and certifying.
    Two of those a day would be handy.
    You couldn’t be more wrong if you tried 🤣🤣
    what, you mean you earn more?
    Time to get the toolkit out of retirement
  • Acab
    Acab Posts: 725
    edited July 2024
    As a black cab driver I’ve just had one fitted by Eon.
    £650 reduced from £1050.00. As I  do my own accounts I can say my house is a business premises which entitles me to the discount.
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,850
    Acab said:
    As a black cab driver I’ve just had one fitted by Eon.
    £650 reduced from £1050.00. As I  do my own accounts I can say my house is a business premises which entitles me to the discount.
    Dont bring race into it .....
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  • jonseventyfive
    jonseventyfive Posts: 3,353
    Motorbility doing free chargers if you qualify, we're going electric and my only concern is the effect of home charging on the bill, my son has a home office and uses a lot of power, and we'll be adding to that.
  • bobmunro
    bobmunro Posts: 20,843
    R0TW said:
    Greenie Junior said:
    R0TW said:
    I am in the wrong game.
    A grand to do an hours work putting a charger in.
    Let’s say £400 on materials, testing and certifying.
    Two of those a day would be handy.
    You couldn’t be more wrong if you tried 🤣🤣
    what, you mean you earn more?
    Time to get the toolkit out of retirement

    That £400 or thereabouts will include a new 32amp ring main, RCD, armoured cable (normally a 15m run is included and the cable is not cheap), and likely a data cable as well. Normally takes a lot more than an hour!

    All of that plus the unit sited and installed, tested, and signed off by a qualified electrician.
  • R0TW
    R0TW Posts: 1,673
    edited July 2024
    Why would it be a 32A ring main? 
    Your domestic DB/CU should already have final circuit residual current protection on final circuits.
    This was the earlier message I was relating to.

    Notts_Addick said:
    Phantom_User said:
    We booked ours through these people:
    https://www.smarthomecharge.co.uk/

    It was just before the government grant expired and they were one of the only ones who could guarantee getting it complete before this date.

    the quote was easily done online and the work was done with no fuss
    We used them as well and can’t recommend highly enough. Really easy to use their website, answered any questions we had and best of all their engineer turned up on time and did the work in about an hour with no fuss at all.

  • cafcnick1992
    cafcnick1992 Posts: 7,413
    ct_addick said:
    Paid $1700 (US Dollars which is 1300 pounds) over here in USA for installation and wall charger but have a larger home so he had to go 50 feet form breaker box to garage.....will get $1400 back in rebates.......bought a BMW IX which includes 2 years of free charging at Electrify America chargers.....travelled 350 miles last weekend all free :) 
    Surely you've got a 2nd car for longer journeys? You can drive for hours across the USA without seeing anything!
  • sunbury-addick
    sunbury-addick Posts: 1,929
    R0TW said:
    I am in the wrong game.
    A grand to do an hours work putting a charger in.
    Let’s say £400 on materials, testing and certifying.
    Two of those a day would be handy.
    Paid £510 for a Project EV charger, son fitted it for a beer and a ruby. Glad he is a spark
  • Rob7Lee
    Rob7Lee Posts: 9,595
    sunbury-addick said:
    R0TW said:
    I am in the wrong game.
    A grand to do an hours work putting a charger in.
    Let’s say £400 on materials, testing and certifying.
    Two of those a day would be handy.
    Paid £510 for a Project EV charger, son fitted it for a beer and a ruby. Glad he is a spark
    Probably the way to go, buy and get a sparky to fit. The problem with these sites that quote a figure without seeing the job is they are building in the average. i.e. I was quoted £200 for fitting one, but then it'd literally be fitted about 1ft from the fuse box, no horrible cable runs etc as all outside/in garage. Other people would be a lot bigger job.
  • jonseventyfive
    jonseventyfive Posts: 3,353
    Signed up for my first electric car yesterday, it arrives next Thursday so it felt slightly odd after all these years of visiting petrol stations to think that's all finished with, can't wait for it though first car I've been excited about for a very long time, charger is fitted Tuesday under the motorbility scheme.

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