If I were to get the home charger install done now, would I be eligible for the OLEV subsidy again at my new property once I've moved house in 6-9 months?
Also, I'm buying this as a company car (I'm self employed) rather than a personal purchase as the tax breaks are pretty huge... but does buying it as a company impact a home charger OLEV subsidy? Tesla have included a voucher for a Tesla subsidy of £700 x2 for charger installers too; I was wondering why these were included but I'm now wondering if this is because I'm notionally buying the Model S as a corporate purchase?
The OLEV subsidy does still apply if you can prove you have the use of a company EV. I can't however remember the detail of what happens if you move house.
These Tesla vouchers I don't know much about, since they are a new thing in the last couple of months. 2x £700 sounds amazingly generous - what's the catch??
My understanding was that this was an alternative to the OLEV scheme so that you could get a simple commando socket rather than a proper chargepoint and just plug your Tesla-supplied portable EVSE into it - all for the sake of the button on the end of the cable. I strongly disapprove of this policy, but it seems to be what they are doing.
This is a worry actually. As I'm moving and it goes on the front of the house, I'm planning on just getting a socket wall mounted rather than a tethered charger. I had been worrying about what would happen if someone comes in the middle of the night and just unplugs the cable...!
In the middle of the night is less of a concern, since the car end of the cable is locked to the car, and the other end may or may not be locked depending on whether you are talking about a proper chargepoint or plugging the UMC into a commando socket.
However, you don't really want to be rolling up your (dirty) cable and taking it with you every day - you want plugging in when you get home each night to be a 10-second routine rather than a chore.
My preference is a chargepoint with tethered cable, which isn't readily stolen (other than with wirecutters just for the copper). Next best would be a socketed fixed chargepoint with a (cheap) cable - you can fix the cable to the wall with a padlock and a ringbolt (the cable itself is much thinner than the plugs on the end. A commando socket and the UMC is more of an issue, since the UMC is much more expensive and a bit more fragile (though could potentially be padlocked in the same way).
If this is highly visible on the front of your house, maybe consider putting whatever you have installed in a small lockable cupboard rather than just open on the wall?