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Getting a home charger installed is a brilliant way of making the most out of your electric car. If you’ve watched other videos in this section, you’ll know that a home charger is much faster than a normal plug socket and gives you complete control over when your car charges up. It can even pay for itself by making the most of cheaper overnight electricity.
Today, we’re looking at the installation process with EVIOS and within a few hours - we’ll be able to plug our lovely Citroen eC4X in and start charging.
The first thing the installer will discuss with you is where you want your charger positioned. Next they will run a cable directly from your fusebox or consumer unit, to where the charger is going to be fitted. This is where the main electricity feed from outside enters your property.
If your fusebox is a long way from where you want your charger fitted, you’ll need to discuss where the cable goes with your installer.
To discover more about the process and read our reviews of the best home chargers on market, check out our new Electrifying.com charging information hub.
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@garyhill9723 9 месяцев назад

Shame about the muzak playing too loud over the installers answers

@raybrown10001 8 месяцев назад

Yeah, who thought that was a good idea?

@leocogin7049 5 месяцев назад

Came here to say exactly this!

@emjbee101 9 месяцев назад

“Is there a checklist?” “First we need the meter number” “Sec…” …she talked over him before he had a chance to actually give a useful pre-install checklist.

@TroggyPB 9 месяцев назад

Agreed. I watch this channel for another perspective on new cars. But Nicky cut him off when there is a lot more to advise clients to prepare for the installer before they get anywhere near site. An electrical channel did a much better job as they’re actual installers, not car reviewers getting bored by the technical stuff they don’t understand. 2 out of 10. Try harder to give full information.

@neilisgreatagain 9 месяцев назад

Why have music during interviews, doesn’t make sense

@PAKChase23 9 месяцев назад

Good video but the background music was too loud and intrusive…

@Yanquetino 9 месяцев назад

On this side of the pond, the biggest problem is often how far the garage is from the home's breaker box. If anyone is building a home, I would strongly suggest including a 240V line in the garage. Makes the process much easier!

@Hanneskitz 9 месяцев назад

I like your videos... but I think, this is an advertisement. I think you have to be transparent and write "advertisement" somewhere?! Isn't this mandatory on youtube?

@thedreamfactory6964 9 месяцев назад

Was thinking the same. Looks advertising....

@Pottery4Life 9 месяцев назад

Good information. Background music needs to stay in the background.

@jonwragg3822 9 месяцев назад

I have a 60amp main fuse. When I asked the DNO about updating it to 100amps they said that had to be dealt with by the installing electrician and wouldn’t deal with me directly. As the company involved failed to do a survey (they were installing a battery as well), they didn’t assess the need, didn’t advise correctly and hence it didn’t get done. I also purchased and pulled the car charger cable in my self because it was a tortuous route, but because a survey was not done additional cables for the battery had to be put in because again the installed gave bad advice. As charging the house battery and the car at the same time (usually at night) is less than 60amp this has not proved to be a problem. Beware also of looped supplies. Installers will refuse to install to a looped supply and the DNO will have to put in a dedicated supply which I believe should be free of charge. Moral of the story.. always have the installation surveyed first and understand what they are going to do so you can check when completed.

@mrmawson2438 9 месяцев назад

looks great cheers love

@megaady36 9 месяцев назад

Have a survey first, doing everything online and hoping it will all go ok is a gamble at best. You are required by the regs to now opt out if you don't want surge protection so not just hook it up to your distribution board off a spare mcb. You may need an additional rcd and you need to be sure the unit has Pen fault protection. Like this channel alot but that is way over simplifying things. The installer has to notify your DNO of the proposed installation and must be qualified electrician.

@Yesterzine 8 месяцев назад

Yeah I'm watching this and they're essentially using fuse box and "meter" as interchangable concepts. My meter is outside right next to where I'd want a charger, the fusebox is literally the other side of the house and indoors. It's a very very different job depending on which one they need to run a cable from.

@megaady36 8 месяцев назад

@@Yesterzine they may be able to install a Henley block and separate distributor if there's room in meter box

@DeezjaVu 9 месяцев назад

Sorry, couldn't understand a word being said :( Turn the background music down and reupload please.

@e46teddy 9 месяцев назад

no mention of a looped property...

@smdms59 9 месяцев назад

I’m currently going through this nightmare. Luckily Northern Power Networks are going to resolve it for no charge but it’s already been 3 weeks and will most likely be another 3 or 4. They are having to do some serious digging both in the street and on my property

@decimal1815 7 месяцев назад

Is that supposed to be a 'normal' house??!

@99unclebob 9 месяцев назад

Good and informative video, here in Canada getting a wall charger hooked for an EV is somewhat of a task, you can buy them, getting installed is a different storey, every province has different guidelines, some require permits some don't, I have 200 amp main service in my garage already and 100 amp service in my house the service is split , so i could go with higher capacity wall unit, I don't own an EV as of now, in the near future, to get an install here the permit you have to take out is $200, totally ridiculous , if you go ahead and have it installed without the permit, your home insurance won't cover or renew you or contents, so i was told no permit no insurance 👎Canada's adoption of EV's is very slow on the uptake and the Government has not changed any incentive programs to get buyers interested in changing our distances are greater than the USA and infrastructure is poor at best and winters in my city are very cold , temps reaching -30 or more regularly, when i retire are my plans to change vehicles and then i will not drive as far no longer working out of town daily, the music was a bit too loud

@neilisgreatagain 9 месяцев назад

Yes music balance too loud , can hardly hear what they are saying

@brianbest3777 9 месяцев назад

The Kia car dealer was able to highly recommend an installer, who indeed was excellent. They service it annually. The biggest problem may be the meter site in your house - hopefully it will be against an external wall!

@jamiepolson 9 месяцев назад

Don’t go by the fuse “rating” on fuse carrier if it says 100amp that only means the carrier is rated at 100amp . There could easily be a 60 or 80 inside

@evkx 9 месяцев назад

Great video. Added this to our technology - home charging UK section article. More people need to see this

@anonymouspdg6121 9 месяцев назад

Good video and for new installations probably useful. However a couple of things that everyone needs to know are that the process includes the grid provider reviewing the request to assess if one, the local grid can support the extra demand the box will put on the grid and two, the size of fuse compared to the total demand / load the house will put on the fuse when the charger is in use if everything in the house is turned on. This involves providing details of every light fitting, type of bulb, every electrical item that will be connected to the house including cookers, emersion heaters and electric showers etc. In my installation, the grid provider,(western Power) insisted that we reduce the maximum load and we had to disconnect the emersion heater, which we don't use anyway. It may also be worth noting that after installation, we received buildings reg certificates that we can provide anyone who buys our house. The actual installation was the easy bit as the grid / network provider is the messy and time consuming bit.

@dismasx5855 9 месяцев назад

The loud music volume made this totally unwatchable for me. Very frustrating.

@garyknight8432 8 месяцев назад

Shame the price of them is still expensive. Over a grand. Oh wait I just found a grand in my back pocket. 🙁🙁🙁

@samuxan 9 месяцев назад

I thought I was lucky when the car came with a charger included but I find that most companies charge the same for installing that for a new charger and the installation. So almost 3 years later I still don't have it running. There's a problem with legislation but also big companies don't want to install one they're not familiar with, and smaller ones aren't used to work with the cables and tools needed for higher voltage

@thedreamfactory6964 9 месяцев назад

I have no clue what you are talking about. High voltage? Domestic?? In your house all is low tension. A few hundred Volt. No special tools needed. I installed my charger myself. 3 phase, 22 kW. All fine. My car takes 11 kW. It's a Zappi. Bought second hand for 500 euro.

@samuxan 9 месяцев назад

@thedreamfactory6964 in places where heating or cooling are not necessary, most houses have cables suited for 1, maybe 4 kW tops. Installing this means a different circuit with different cables that can handle the usual 7.7 something not all electrician do

@thedreamfactory6964 9 месяцев назад

@@samuxan Sure, i also installed different cables. No big deal. But theye're still low voltage.

@babyfacenelly7643 8 месяцев назад

I am not technically minded I did not learn anything from this video. I wish they could have gathered some questions form the viewers before doing this so at least we could have realistic questions.

@Aoocci791 9 месяцев назад

I have no of street parking how do I charge me car

@albertoporras04 9 месяцев назад

Best option is to make a list of where your car spends a significant amount of its time parked in a typical week. e.g. 1) on the street outside my house, 2) my workplace carpark, 3) a town centre municipal car park, 4) a shopping centre car park, 5) lesuire centre car park, 6) supermarket car park, etc. Then check out if any of those locations have any AC chargers and build your charging routine into your normal regular activities. If that doesn't work for you find your nearest DC rapid chargers and see if making a weekly or biweekly visit to one (weekly should be fine for an average EV and driving pattern) works for you. These options should cover 99% of people.

@Aoocci791 9 месяцев назад

@@albertoporras04 I work from home and don't use other place

@bobuk5722 9 месяцев назад

Re muzak comments I suggest you repost without the music track. Those jingle bells make it particularly difficult to understand what is being said.

@derekjones9801 9 месяцев назад

Come on Electrifying not your usual high standard, why the background music, spoilt the video completely.

@alockett160 9 месяцев назад

I rent my property. Wonder how my landlord would react...

@chrisvanvoorst2125 5 месяцев назад

Hey, the background music was just a bit too much (IMO).

@fallinginthed33p 9 месяцев назад

Can you still get connection errors when plugging in to a home charger compared to a DC fast charger?

@Sherukka 9 месяцев назад

What do you mean? No problems should occur.

@firstnamelastname9631 9 месяцев назад

I hope you are being sarcastic... @@Sherukka

@Sherukka 9 месяцев назад

@@firstnamelastname9631 What do you mean? Haven’t got any connection errors on fast chargers ever but I drive Stellantis cars…

@EdWittering 8 месяцев назад

Please turn the music down?

@decimal1815 7 месяцев назад

It sounded as though he was about to give a checklist here, and then got interrupted, or just bad editing? ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-VCx_1Afh3iw.htmlsi=Ude46YQpbFz_U9m6&t=240 Or was it a checklist of one thing - surely there's more to consider than the meter number?? Audio isn't great on this one - need to upgrade the mics?

@sasorace 9 месяцев назад

Background music is to loud compared to person speaking.

@bluewillow245 9 месяцев назад

Why do you play music on this video it's totally distracting

@mrmawson2438 9 месяцев назад

Evening

@PaulMeier-cu3ds 9 месяцев назад

It is always useful to have something as basic as this explained, so great video. We had out myEnergi Zappi installed about a month ago. It sucks in our solar/wind in selectively when it is available and also can schedule overnight low tariff lec. Our renewables of course cost us zero now they are installed, but our tariff from the grid is 34p kwh at peak and 16p kwh off peak. Electrifying calculated for us last year in the UK that breakeven with petrol is at around 70p kwh. So even without renewables lec home charging is so much cheaper than your local hydrocarbons, at least in the UK. In my case we also get free lec at work which is a minor something to look out for when you change jobs. The public charging infrastructure in my part of the West Midlands is not great and can be expensive which is why I have bought a PHEV rather than a pure electric car. I am also sceptical about investing in a car with a huge Li battery because I think they will look pretty stupid in about five years time when solid state is here. BTW I hope and expect Evios have paid you handsomely for the plug - so to speak.

@russvhill2 9 месяцев назад

Can you please release this again without the unnecessary and distracting music!!

@onlinediscounts5913 9 месяцев назад

Kill the background music 😱

@Mike-qu6fp 9 месяцев назад

#ad

@golfingolive 9 месяцев назад

Getting rid of the music, please

@19levante82 9 месяцев назад

Who in their right mind thought that putting that rubbish music over the audio was a good idea. I suggest a re-edit

@brianlawrence7986 9 месяцев назад

Why have background music. Harder to hear what is being said.

@noelhempstead9722 9 месяцев назад

Can you stop playing music when people are talking, can't here what they are saying.

@leocogin7049 5 месяцев назад

I can't hear a word the presenters are saying above the stupid background music. Epic fail.

@alunhoskins4513 8 месяцев назад

What’s with the tacky, loud music over the dialogue?😆 Awful. Annoying, detracts from the topic and presents a really ‘cheap’ quality to the video. Other than that….👍

@JohnEnergy2012 Месяц назад

Dumbest argument is always "aesthetics" and how much mess... bla bla... Spoiler: No info here.

@robertbox5399 2 месяца назад

Why doesn't she walk through a terraced street or an inner-city estate instead of the grounds of a mansion while preaching the EV propaganda, with wires trailing out of windows or across pavements.