VW E-Up - home charger installation or not?

[Frimley111R]

SWoll said:

Undirection said:

JD said:

I decided to not bother, in the expectation that in a year or two the chargers are going to cost a lot less rather than being propped up by the grant.

I think you might want to check your maths there. Removing a subsidy of £350 is not going to make things less expensive. I don't remember car prices going down as the grants on them were removed.

You might want to look into that. The BMW i3 for example had a list price drop of a few thousand when the grant was changed to cars under £35k, as did a couple of other models I believe.

That's something different though and related to grants for vehicles at certain price levels. They moved the price to take advantage of it the grant.

[JD]

Undirection said:

JD said:

I decided to not bother, in the expectation that in a year or two the chargers are going to cost a lot less rather than being propped up by the grant.

I think you might want to check your maths there. Removing a subsidy of £350 is not going to make things less expensive. I don't remember car prices going down as the grants on them were removed.

Sorry I mean in the overall scheme of things.

My father was quoted £1200 to install a 32A charger by an installer to take advantage of the grant.

An installer not applying for the grant priced the same job at £700.

I am hoping the subsidy removal levels that cost.