in this video we're going to unravel the cost of installing an ev charger
sit back and relax i've got this one nice and easy i went onto a thing called google and i typed
in how much will it cost to install a home ev charging point and i've got it down to four four
nine i'm all in oh well very good nice headline leading prices was that an advert on page one of
google it was page one of google is there a page two on google only ever used the first page well
not many people get the page two where you're probably getting into the cost the real cost
of an ev charger uh and we're going to explore that today i think it was the one you found
for that one i found pod point with that one but it also takes into consideration the
OZEV grant which is sometimes called the OLEV grant is the 350 quid added into that so it's actually
seven nine nine nine yeah 800 quid or by a pound yeah and obviously that grant is available it's
not just through pod point it's available on lots of different ev charges if you meet certain
criteria um but it's diminishing all the time it's uh it's 350 pounds at the minute it used to be 500
so that won't be around forever so expect actually the real cost of charges to increase over time
but we're going to help try and navigate our way through that you know we're not affiliated to
pod point we're just going to we'll explore their standard offer a little bit later but first let's
explore the things you should think about to where that cost of an ev charger installation actually
comes from and what's the what's the first thing we think about gary i'm gonna be concerned about
what it looks like probably aren't i so if i've paid four four nine for it and probably have no
choice in which of the ev charging points they install and it could be that i want to manage
things like solar pv and will the ev charging point be able to do that i don't know so i'm going
to be stuck with the one that they arrive with yeah and there's some other things to think about
when it comes to charges as well even down to does it have a permanent lead attached to it like this
one we've got in front of us here and how long that lead is and i think we've made a video that
takes people through all those things to think about gary haven't we yeah so when we start
talking about tethered untethered the the intake position a consumer unit now these words might not
be that commonplace to you so please check out the video in the link in the description below where
we run through all those considerations before having an ev charging point installed yeah but
the next biggest impact on the cost is actually where you want the charger installed or where it's
possible to install it and what sort of things are we thinking about there gary yeah yeah you've
got lots of consideration so it's going to be on the outside of the building it could be inside a
garage how far away is it from where you've got your you might call it a fuse box what's that
distance look like because that's going to make it considerably dearer the further it's away and the
installation that we did we had one 30 meters away and we put that one to the test so that's going to
obviously change the price as well yeah i mean you could have to go up through you know dig up
your garden go under paths you know root through the floors under your house obviously more time
on site for the electrician means you're going to end up paying more for the charger and then
what's the next thing we think about gary once we've done that the suitability of the supply so
that means going to where your metering equipment is and there's lots of considerations there not
only the size of the incoming fuse could be 60 80 100 amps and that could make a difference but we
also explored in another video looking at things called loop supplies and that's a real hot potato
if you've got one of those isn't it gordon yeah so that's yeah that's the supply coming
into your house there's not much the electricity installer can do about that but there is a lot
of time goes into managing that process if you need to have your supply corrected or upgraded
but then the next thing to think about is the wiring of your house itself you know you may
even if you've got a relatively modern house you may be surprised to find that it's not suitable
for the installation of an ev charger car is that right yeah so that means all of a sudden then
what you're calling your fuse box which is a consumer unit might need to be replaced and that's
quite an expensive job in order to do it if you've got an older property it might be that your wiring
system isn't up to the latest standards and could do with maybe a rewire or upgrading and we've done
some videos on that on does my house need a rewire and that will give you again some really good
visual clues about the age and the condition of your installation yeah so you know so the location
and the suitability of the supply again add up to significant costs if they need to be corrected
before you do it which then leads on to who should install my charge point now the price you quoted
there was from pod point and they naturally have to to to get that market leading price out there
they have some specific uh terms and conditions and i've i've pulled them up and they're sort of
underlying what we've just gone through so the first thing to think about how far can it be from
the meter yeah so 14 15 meters they're suggesting and they're liking it from their description to
say it's possibly clipped to the outside of the building and they will consider whether they would
lift floorboards rooted through ceilings climb into roof spaces but that starts now becoming
maybe it's going to cost more and they use the words you know they may have to stop mine yeah
there's a lot of conditions in there like that so what's included the 15 meters of cable routing the
cable through a drilled wall up to 500 millimeters wide yeah and your walls at home are a meter wide
so you get halfway through and stop out or perhaps they just don't carry long drill bits on the van
um an additional three-way consume unit if required which which is good i think that's a good
one so if your consumer unit is full and there is no fuses or circuit breakers that are spare
in there they will install an additional consumer unit yeah and then an installation of a type a rcd
is quite important we've got separate videos on that we're not going into that here and up
to three meters of plastic conduit to conceal the interior wiring so it's just they only carry one
length on the van as well yeah so that that's okay for me that that's going to be not necessarily a
rare job but it's going to be the ones that if you're an electrical contractor you think i've
had a bit of luck the the stuff's all in the right place yeah yeah exactly that's the yeah
almost flies out the van and installs itself price uh and then obviously it can't be above six feet
above the ground okay so why not use a pair of steps um so we'll have spare steps yeah and then
there's lots of other things that can obviously cause that price to increase and the reason
we sort of go into that is because we get a lot of questions from efix viewers where they've
possibly had their charger um bundled into the price of a car yes so they've actually
purchased the charge along with the car and then it's only when you get further down the
road actually installation that suddenly all these additional costs come in yeah
and that's a surprise then all of a sudden you know and the loop supply has been in there as well
all of a sudden it's a lot further away there's loads of things that can stop the install of the
ev charger the problem is your car's still going to come and therefore you won't be
able to charge it necessarily on a rival so this is where there's that sort of balancing
act do you go with the very good deal that i found on google using pod point or do you maybe
sort out a local electrician that's familiar with the house or the houses on your estate
and can obviously offer you not only advice about your ev charging point but maybe about the
condition and upgrading your own wiring systems yeah you're right gary so yeah a lot of these
nationwide installers who've geared up just to do ev installers fast you know probably don't carry
the equipment uh or you say there's that knowledge of local properties in the area to be able to you
know be on site for a long time uh to do that installation and just for some context here
yeah included in that standard installation yeah they expect to be able to get it done in two hours
wow which is yeah which which is uh and and unpeel that again if they're installed in the consumer
unit it was 15 meters away it was clipped to the outside of the building i think that would have
been incredibly fast on if it's one person you might be able to get away with it too but that's
incredibly quick yeah so as i said hopefully this has helped you when you're obviously trying
to choose uh which ev charger to purchase and how you're going to do it but do check out that other
video with the things you could consider because there's one thing we always talk about when it
comes to ev charger installation that's future proofing you know today you may be thinking we're
having one ev car but there's a lot of two car families and more out there what's going to happen
when you get more cars what's going to happen when you put solar panels on the roof a little bit more
investment up front now can mitigate some further costs down the road as always it's your feedback
and comments that will drive future videos is this something that you think oh i'm so pleased it's
come along always considering maybe going for this option i've looked at my installation the
other videos were left in the description and you understand now it's going to be a more expensive
and more online please leave those comments below and we'll try and get back to as many as we can