One charger two sockets?

[Martin-G]

Considering an EV and getting my head around the niceties of home charging. We actually use the garage for putting cars in (rather than clobber) but also want to be able to connect up outside the garage. It’s a detached garage with its own consumer board, so was thinking can the charging point be installed in the garage but with two sockets, one on the inside wall and one on the outside wall. I do appreciate that only one socket can be used at a time. Do any of the suppliers have set ups that would support this set up?

[granada203028]

Just have standard 32A sockets fitted and get a suitable charger lead you can move around.

All the charger/lead does is tell the car how much current it can draw.

[Evanivitch]

The short answer, no.

You could install two chargers. You won't get two grants if you go new unless you have 2 cars.

But you could buy second hand units and get them installed, shouldn't be too expensive.

Or have one 32A outside, and a heavy duty 13A socket with appropriate wiring to ensure it can take a sustained 13A draw.

[kambites]

You could bodge one yourself. Put an untethered charger just inside the garage and run a cable through the wall into a box big enough to coil it up on the outside. Then if you want to charge outside, you plug the end of cable into the charger inside, if you want to charge inside you use a different cable.

[modeller]

You can link Tesla chargers and they will split the load if >1 at the same time.

[MOBB]

I had 2 EO chargers fitted, one @ 32amp and one @16amp

Had to have my main fuse upgraded to 100amp, which was done FOC

The EO mini is tiny so 2 next to each other looks fine

[Martin-G]

So how about a tethered charging unit inside the garage and a 32a socket on each face (inside and outside) of the garage wall? So to charge outside plug the tethered charging unit into the socket on the inside of the garage wall and the vehicles own cable into the socket on the outside of the wall? Possible?

[M Powered]

Twin Type 2 outlets available on the CTEK unit:

https://chargestorm.se/en/products/chargestorm-con...

I think if I recall correctly Harry Metcalfe has one of these installed?https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIB5XXHNAWWzTOw6guIMYCg

[Phunk]

Or keep things simple, use the granny (10a) charger when in the garage and have a normal charger installed outside. The likelihood is if the car is in the garage it's going to be in there for a bit longer anyway.

[JagDroid Man]

Install the charger just inside the garage door, either tethered or un-tethered.
When your car is in the garage just plug it in, when the car is outside the garage (presumably just outside the door) just run the cable under the garage door. Keep it simple!

[Martin-G]

JagDroid Man said:

Install the charger just inside the garage door, either tethered or un-tethered.
When your car is in the garage just plug it in, when the car is outside the garage (presumably just outside the door) just run the cable under the garage door. Keep it simple!

Yes realise that but live out in the sticks and one of the reasons for putting cars in the garage (modern construction) is to keep mice and rats out of the cars, especially when the ground is saturated. So I don’t want any partly open doors.

[JagDroid Man]

Depends on your garage door of course, but I have it setup this way and the cable fits under the door with it fully closed with no problem.