Like that Chris but why an outside charge point not inside your garage? Also is it tethered or not (reasons appreciated).

 

No space in the garages.

It's an Andersen A2 with the optional 8.5m tethered cable - so that I don't have to move cars around if the E is not next to the charger.

The cable wraps around and stores inside the charger - no wet cables in the boot of your car or laying on the ground looking like an unsightly mess...

https://andersen-ev.com/andersen-a2/

Chris.

 

I used to work with Dave Simpson (the bloke behind Andersen).. good bloke.

 

@chris111 thanks. Food for thought. I am inclined to put it in the garage for security. I like the coiled up tethered cable and agree that is the way to go.

Also I am looking for a time switch to control charging as I am on a 48-point wholesale market tracking tariff and may want to restrict overnight charging to the cheapest half hour periods. My sparks did me one for the GSHP which draws a humongous current i.e. close to 30 amp as will the EV charger circuit. Yes I know you can get app controlled chargers but my philosophy is that anything that is part of the house should be independently controlled. Telling whoever I sell the house to get a certain app (which may no longer be available) doesn't sound too clever.

 

mine will be outside.. security being someone nicks the cable?

 

no someone steals electricity

edit: but minor really it depends where you will park your EV overnight

 

surely at 6kw its less than a quid an hour. I bet that long cable was >£100
put cctv near it

interesting looking at the petrol platforms charging, a merc had parked front in, lead trailing all round to the port where a petrol cap might once have lived.. i hate trailing cables

 

Quite the cables are >£100 but surely if you're parking outside you would go for a 'tethered' charger i.e. with integral cable?

Been reading stuff about V2G and I'm finding very little about how you might get paid for the '2G' (to grid). Won't happen very soon I think.

My desire remains to be able to choose/automate when the EV is charged. A simple question but not one I can find an answer to easily. Quite a few come with smart phone app control which lets you turn charging on and off. I want that to happen setting times in advance and not have to stay awake all hours. I don't see much advantage in a so called smart app just to be a bedside on/off switch.

 

Not really looked into it at all but you want a charger which will suit another car should you change I guess

I have a ctek on the S2 on the drive so not concerned about anything really as that has been the case for a while. I have an external socket to fit for that but it's on a long backlog

 

If you don't want to use the charger's app to schedule charging, you can use the car's onboard computer to schedule the charging - no need to mess around with time switches.

You can lock the charger through it's app so that it will not deliver charge and stop some scrote from stealing your electricity.

If the cable is plugged into the E, it's locked into place and you cannot remove it without having the key on you - that might stop your average passing chancer from nicking your cable.

Food for thought

Chris.