How easy is it to install a home high-speed EV charger? | Fifth Gear

where ws this filmed in cumbria??

What is security on these ev chargers? Can I lock it and stop others from using it when I'm not home?

For parts it cost about $900 for me to install a charging port. If a professional had done it, I'm pretty sure it would have been significantly more costly.

So the missus and the 3 kids all want a boost at the same time. The house only has a 100A supply. Someone's going to have to change their plans.

"With that, Ricky got his big drill out"...and the rest is history

What if you have a looped 60A power supply.. not so simple then.

Not refuel but recharge your EV. Let's get it right!

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What an amazing time to be alive

There is so much misinformation on this video, it should be taken down. Fifth gear, get someone who knows the real cost of owning an EV!!

I take it that presenter doesn't drive an EV!! She's no idea how public charging works!!

I think they should scrape the permission of the landlord, you said they will stop the (new) combustion engines sale

Apparently there is around 60,000 Charing points not 25,000

I drive a Kia e soul as a delivery car, currently we park to a parking lot instead of company premises and return the keys...

All now irrelevant from June this year all ev charging points have to be wired into a separate meter and connected to a data gathering line out I'll let you think on how they are going to charge you from now on oh and vat on these will ne be 20% not 5 % .. also don't think it's a job for Mr average DIY man

It is simple install a 32A MCB circuit in your Consumer Unit and use SWA cable to your charging point - Job Done

And if you want to plan a road trip to the countryside?

A word of warning now... the OZEV grant will not be available after end of March. And if youve applied for one, the charging unit must have its installation complete by 31st March to qualify!

I have 14 Petrol Stations within a 3klm range and only one offers cheaper prices. So ICE cars must suffer from serious range anxiety.

One problem i see is that imagine there’s 4 EV cars in your home in the near future, you can only charge one car at a time, so the smartphone charger scenario springs to mind where everyone wants power first and you usually ends up causing a fight.

I thought that was a Land Rover

What if I live in a terrace or flat?

different charge cables will be in the past. someone will make an adapter. not to worry. more concerned charge speed too slow.

I was hoping they would all adopt usb-c

The trickyest bit is drilling a hole in the wall ,
And running the cable through
Worth a feature on a car programme then

And there's the actual kicker - "not every home can have a charger"

But why are we so blind to the extremely obvious solution which is for EV's to have hot swappable batteries
Sure manufacturers will have to collaborate but they kind of do already
So you'd roll into a Power Station, swap your depleted batteries for charged ones, the station then charges your subscription account after working out what it will come to and away you go inside 3 minutes
Why is this such a difficult thing to sort out?

Until this is sorted, we will NEVER be properly EV'd up...never.

So the government are FORCING electric on us and not everyone is capable and able to have EV charging so how does this work!!!!!

I refuse to spend hundreds of pounds seeing if my home is suitable for then to be told no I don’t have money to waste this day and age !

Its OK we wont need additional chargers the big plan is care sharing!! You wont own your own car but rent one bit like the boris bike in London.

The other day I saw a new Ionic 5, a few teslas, MG's and various other EV's, they were in the same fucking traffic jam as me.

a company came out to install a charge point at my home and found 5 things wrong that needed rectifying. the house isn't rediculously old and the electrics are in no way unsafe either.

Will people stop saying it does 280 miles ... It doesn't unless it's a perfect no traffic warm day ... It does real world about 60 to 120 miles less depending on where you're driving, how you're driving, motorway, Broad or city, is it cold, is it wet ... Etc I will say though the only car I've test driven that had about 200 miles range was the Kia soul ev

It would be a good start to make the charger sockets universal by international law if they all claim to be concerned with the environment and forcing us all into EV's?
What with people living in apartments? It could be a good idea to incorporate wireless induction charging in all the parking spaces, connected by an app, in case charging by cable is not an option.

Nice

Pod point will not install one if you have a street lamp or other street installation at the end of your drive.
Until you can provide information on the earthing system for that equipment.
And the earthing must be the same as you as your house.
And mine is not and my car is within 3 metres of a lamp post.
£700 to have the lamp earth changed or 500 to have the home earth changed.

Trotting out the 'it takes x hours to fully charge...' when looking at the zero cost option is pretty poor. You only need to have a decent 3-pin socket with single connection to the supply , and you only need to charge your average daily use, which for most people is about 30 miles. So this is about 7-8 hours, and my Economy7 tariff works fine for this. £700 saved = 9000 miles for free!

I find it a bit cheeky referring to a single phase 32A charger as "Fast". Fast would be a HVDC CHAdeMO charger running off it's own dedicated 3x63A three phase supply (at the very least), costing over £10,000 for the charger itself plus whatever the DNO want to charge for running a three phase supply into your house - if at all possible.

Cost and availability of the vehicles are bigger issues.

This Kia is really a super car. NO PROBLEMS AND ALREADY 25000 km. I love my Kia.

Ah, early Kia Soul EV uses two charging standards for its inlets – Type 1 and CHAdeMO exactly the same as the first gen Leaf

Yep, every time you "plug in" your car to recharge it, you're consuming the equivalent of twenty homes worth of energy....rolling brownouts will be our future ,as we need to be building powerplants right NOW...but I don't see this happening. A well built electric system with plenty of reserves is what brought us to this point, adding a "drain" such as electric cars will eat into that reserve very fast...& considering the snails pace of powerplants coming "online", this does not bode well.

You forgot to add in the cost of the electrical work required before the charger could even be fitted. For some that could be very expensive.

"As long as you have off street parking" ..................................

You failed to mention that the Government grant comes to an end in March 2022.

So not only you paying 25k+ for EV corsa size which will be useless after 5years/battery degradation/ but on top of that you need another 2k for charger installation🙁 what a day time robbery🙁

To be honest, if you don’t drive much a regular UK household plug with a good ground is all I really needed to drive about town. A wall box is nice for convenience and more weather-proof but if you can reach an existing plug it’s not strictly necessary.

Completely useless if you live in a block of units.

Being an electrician and installing EV charging points in people homes, I can honestly say for what they are they are so over priced, £1000 is nuts. I am sure the price will come down soon.
I have an Hybrid VW Tiguan on order and what I have installed at my house is a 32amp external commando socket, about £20 to purchase and about 1hour to install, then I purchased a 32amp/7.2 KW charging lead from a uk manufacture, this come with an in-line control box which deals with all the earth monitoring and cut out when the car is charged, that was around £130, There are way around the cost and you can save money,
I understand it is easy for me do and say all this.
Also correction on what was said in the video, you can have the charger as far away from the house as you want, long as the correct cable calculations are done and the installation method is correct.

All new buildings should be equipped with solar and Ev charging points.

They will never do the range stated by the manufacturer and how are people who have no off road parking going to charge ❓