How much did it cost to have your charger installed?

[TheRainMaker]

After reading through the "Would you have an EV without home charging" thread, the cost of installing a charger came up.

This could be one of the main barriers to having an EV, as it's clear that only a tiny percentage would have one without home charging.

The cost of having a charger installed seems to vary (a lot), and it could be helpful for people to get a "general" idea of the costs.

Please include all costs, including installation, the charger itself, and any other upgrades needed.

For us, we needed two new consumer units, one in the house and one in the garage. Luckily, the cable to the garage was already rated at 40kW, so that was fine. Our charger was a Simpson and Partners unit with a nine-meter cable.

The total for us was around £2100.00 inc VAT.

[plfrench]

Answers one and two for me. One free with the first EV and the second free from work when I opted back in to get my first EV company car.

[plfrench]

You probably should have another option ‘free with new house’ seeing as Approved Document S requires a charger to be provided where there is a drive / allocated space since Summer 2022.

[paradigital]

£850~ for my MyEnergi Zappi v2, however this was 1) back when the grant was still available, and 2) the cable run from the consumer unit to the charger is < 3m.

Consumer unit was in the garage already (for the whole house supply), and we’d recently had an additional unit added for the Solar/Battery, so ample space for the EVSE.

[TheRainMaker]

plfrench said:

You probably should have another option ‘free with new house’ seeing as Approved Document S requires a charger to be provided where there is a drive / allocated space since Summer 2022.

Good point, changed it

[fatjon]

The question assumes they also supplied the charger or do you actually mean the charge to fit “your” charger?
That’s not really clear and makes a big difference.

[PSRG]

Paid £195 after whatever grant was involved back in 2016 to have 32A / 7kWh tethered Rolec charger fitted. It was only a 7m cable run along the side of the house to fit it though. I paid the extra £20 - a 16A one was £175!

[georgeyboy12345]

I paid £600 for my SyncEV charger when the OZEV grant was still running in 2021, fully installed by a company called Ascent energy. Half paid before they installed and the other half paid around 6 months later when they remembered to ask for it!

[superpp]

£125 for my dumb Rolec in 2019, grant used.

Since paid £199 for an Ohme Smart Type 2 lead, using a discount from Octopus Energy.

[theboss]

I spent a lot, not by outright necessity, but because I wanted to be able to charge where we park in front of a detached garage some 60m from the existing meter location / house consumer unit which was served by a 20A buried cable. Whatever I had to do involved a degree of groundwork and installing new cables.

Therefore groundworks were done to install ducts (more than I ever need) between the two locations. Luckily the street 3-phase cable came all the way down to just in front of my driveway so rather than take a new supply from the house, I had the DNO put a new duct in (all soft ground luckily) and put a new 3ph service cable and meter location in the garage directly, removed the old one and back-fed the house.

Quite a big project overall but what I've ended up doing is upgrading the supply and installing infrastructure that allows me to charge 2 cars simultaneously (chargers are group limited to 22kW combined) as well improving the foundation for future electrical projects. I took a 5-core SWA back to the house so in the future I can balance loads on phases, install 3ph heat pump and so on.

A bit overkill just for EV charging but overall a reasonable upgrade for the house and expands my future options re solar, heating and so on.