Company getting in touch after having a car charger fitted - Is this normal?

[Zakalwe]

I see those horizontal things a lot in Texas - maybe installing fibre, not sure. I'll watch the video because I've always wondered how they work and how far they reach

Grady at Practical Engineering recently did a video on this very subject

 

[PITA]

What would they do if you have a stamped concrete drive? Would they have to pay for a new one to be put down as I can’t see how you’d be able to put it back together

Ours is a printed concrete driveway, surrounded by landscaped small trees bushes...

... so they agreed to go all the way round our driveway (corner plot luckily), and under a perimeter wall... which put about 20 metres of extra cabling onto the job.

But they did it, and saved my driveway.

Cost to me : £0.00

 

[Forty_Two]

. Problem is my Leccy box is under the stairs, and they are not digging up my newly tiles house floor.

The fuse box (CU) may be under the stairs but your meter must be in your garage or somewhere near where the mains come into the house - so just get a new (additional) CU fitted (near the meter / main fuse) for the EVC.

(20 miles per hour is unacceptable - 35 miles on each hour is minimum to expect)

 

[Adopado]

..... (20 miles per hour is unacceptable - 35 miles on each hour is minimum to expect)

Well, miles would depend on the car ... let's encourage kW for speed and kWh for quantity ... who knows what the OP means ...

 

[EVer Hopeful]

20 sounds ok to me

I mean I downrated my HPWC to 30A and I just plug it in when I get home so it'll be almost 12 hours before I need it again ==> 240 miles

30A due to a load calculation, plus it makes sense to put less strain on the system anyway

...then again, I'm in Texas and it's all US miles

 

[ACarneiro]

Well, miles would depend on the car ... let's encourage kW for speed and kWh for quantity ... who knows what the OP means ...

This!
Please, we have standard units for a reason. I have absolutely no idea if 20 miles per hour charging rate is a lot or a little.

 

[greenbottle123]

This!
Please, we have standard units for a reason. I have absolutely no idea if 20 miles per hour charging rate is a lot or a little.

Well the Tesla charger is capable of giving charge much faster and any Tesla model is capable or receiving much more charge so it seems they are not getting much out of it. Rough calc means 13 hours to fully charge the car which is close to 3.7kw

 

[EVer Hopeful]

I have absolutely no idea if 20 miles per hour charging rate is a lot or a little.

It's not an invalid point, but I still think the real question is "Is it enough?"

If you're not driving much and you have 12 hours to charge overnight you really don't need a really manly charge, but if you're driving huge distances every day then maybe you do

 

[greenbottle123]

It's not an invalid point, but I still think the real question is "Is it enough?"

If you're not driving much and you have 12 hours to charge overnight you really don't need a really manly charge, but if you're driving huge distances every day then maybe you do

It is enough but not value for what is purchased and its real capability

 

[EVer Hopeful]

agreed

 

[DougMa]

The fuse box (CU) may be under the stairs but your meter must be in your garage or somewhere near where the mains come into the house

No necessarily. My house has the mains supply emerge into the centre of the house underneath the stairs, where there’s a cupboard housing the main fuse and meter, feeding the consumer unit on the wall above. Built in 2018.

 

[yessuz]

Well the Tesla charger is capable of giving charge much faster and any Tesla model is capable or receiving much more charge so it seems they are not getting much out of it. Rough calc means 13 hours to fully charge the car which is close to 3.7kw

Eh?
Tesla with 30 amps and 240 V will take 7 kW on AC