Home Charger for 2 Cars

[the_stoat]

Does anyone know who provides a home charger that has 2 connections? It would scare the neighbours to swap over a single connection late at night in my pants.

[robbieduncan]

Would you not be better off with 2 chargers on two separate circuits? A single charger capable of 7Kw to each car would need to be on a 60A circuit!

[SWoll]

What sort of daily mileage will you be doing?

We charge our i3 120ah and Model 3 P on different nights using a 3-Pin granny charger and cover 1000 miles a month in each car. Never been an issue.

[IanJ9375]

the_stoat said:

Does anyone know who provides a home charger that has 2 connections? It would scare the neighbours to swap over a single connection late at night in my pants.

There are outfits that do dual - https://d3h256n3bzippp.cloudfront.net/PP-D-170091-...

But I suspect you'd be better off getting 2 seperate one's via the OLEV grant - the issue you come across is the likely 100a limit on your main board.
Unless you've got 3phase which is unlikely

[Frimley111R]

The issue is that you only have so much power to your home and so with 2 sockets you'll either be able to charge one car first and then the other (typical charging management) or charge both at half the full rate. Given that most EVs won't need charging every day, one charger will probably be enough.

[sjg]

Some like the Zappi let you "pair" up units and keep total power draw down to a manageable level.

I don't think there's a single unit with two sockets that's eligible for the home OLEV grant.

[the_stoat]

Thanks for the replies. Why I wanted 2 sockets is one car is a plug in hybrid, so needs charging most days. I am considering getting a Leaf and 2 days commuting is marginal and so will have a top up charge most nights. I am aware we would have balance the charging and would hope to do that via the cars charging controls so only one charges at the time. What I am trying to avoid is cable swapping in the middle of the night.

To keep it simple it could be easier to leave the hybrid on the 3 pin charger.

[Dave Hedgehog]

as said most UK homes have 100a max at best and 2 7kw chargers would need 64 of that 100a, i doubt anyone would install that as it would be easy to overload it with by having a couple of heavy appliances on at the same time

you could get a 7kw and 3kw charger which would be 48a

a 3kw charger would be more reliable than using the granny plug

Edited by Dave Hedgehog on Tuesday 17th March 12:47

[Frimley111R]

Dave Hedgehog said:

a 3kw charger would be more reliable than using the granny plug

Edited by Dave Hedgehog on Tuesday 17th March 12:47

And, ultimately safer too

[MOBB]

I’ve got 2 EO minis, one at 32a and the other at 16a

Fuse had to be upgraded to 100a but the DNO did that for free