Electric car home charging - what's needed to get a wall box charging point installed for your EV!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 พ.ย. 2023
- And easy guide to getting your home ready for an electric charging point for your car. A stylish solution for plugging-in where you live!
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the CAR girl guide to selecting & installing a car charger .....
Step 1 , pick one that's a pretty colour & design
step 2 , pay the manufacturer to install it ....
thanks for the insightful info about socket types , Amp ratings , etc , etc
VBH, why didn't Andersen just sponsor an EV car review, that's how TH-cam works
I had a electric car for 9 months sick of going for charging at garage and out of order or sat waiting for 40 minutes to start charging, now just gone back to a new ford petrol
Give up the ‘comedy’ mate , it doesn’t suit you .
Shame you didn’t have a house with electrical outlets in it.
Good to see you back on YT, but as far as a milkfloat charger goes, I'd rather have a leper colony in my kitchen.
Nice wallbox! I recommend adding a chargehanger.
It's great to see you again. We've all missed you!
Well done Vicki, what a great advert this was .
How much did they bung you for this ?
This is just an advert for the charger nothing more , nothing less .
Not sure what you are slevering about .
I'll never own an electric car, but I really enjoyed the video 🤣🤣 thank you 👍
That is a fantastic looking charger.
Yes, we're fans of Vicky, no doubt. Unfortunately there's a bit more details involved when attempting to install a charger for your EV. Mounting the magical box on the outside is the final step really. How far are you from the main breaker point? How long was the run to the actual resting place of the box? All those things are the difficult part. While some might be able to attempt to do this on their own, it's best not to fool around with electrical power of this type.
In my situation, my fuse panel was located in my basement about 50-60meters from where I would need the plug. A plug is all I needed. The same type of plug we use for our dryer (nema 15/40?). The most difficult thing was running the heavy duty cable from the panel, somewhat disguised along the wall, thru the top portion of the ceiling, drilling a whole thru the concrete into the cellar, from the cellar into the garage. And then running the cable along the top portion of my garage towards the furthest side of the 1st door. So yes, about a 50-60meter length of cable. Installing the wall plug was super easy for the electrician. Another major concern was making sure your current fuse panel is able to take the added amps for a 2nd dryer plug. Most newer homes nowadays only come with 100amps for the fuse. Enough to run 1 stove, 1 dryer and a fridge. Adding an EV charger would obligate you to upgrade your entire fuse panel. An additonal cost for sure. Thankfully my place is over 35yrs old and came with a 200amp fuse panel. Enough to run 2 EV ports along with all the usual home appliances.
I could get really fancy and purchase one of these wall boxes but thankfully Tesla's already come with scheduling built into the main app. 🙂
Totally agree!
Well done VBH. THANK YOU. More videos with you and cars please.
Thank you so much Vicki for your valuable info 🙏🏻 glad you're back 🤗
Thanks! And more cars to come...
Wonder how the outside unit works when -30c , or when when covered in ice and snow?
That same unit can be installed inside also I recon. I do have 3 car warm garage also, but it would be nice to have an outside unit also.
@@creamwobbly well, I do live about 100 miles north from arctic circle.
More Vicky, please! Moooooooooooooooooore Vicky!!!!!!!!! 😃😃
I don’t understand why using a 3-pin socket puts a strain on the electricity of you home.
This is a slower charge than a dedicated charging point, so the current and power going to the house at any one time will be less.
Also, a 3-pin charger can charge up to about 3KW, which is about the power of two kettles.
While it would be painfully slow, I would certainly expect to be able to reliably charge an electric car this way.
Exporting local emissions oop north one car at a time
I’d like to know what makes this charger at over twice the price of others so special. Surely not the box. I could just get a cabinet to cover one that cost £450 instead of £1100.
Here in Au the whole EV thing has turned out to be an absolute faff.
Unlike the UK we all have driveways, how the street parking mess that is the UK is going to sustain charging baffles me no end.
Niceee
Thanksssssss
Yeah, yeah, yeah..... we all know it's just a big sponsored videotribe blurb, promoting some new EV wallbox, blah, blah, blah....... I'm just glad to see VBH back on the screen again! Come on Vicks.... SURELY there must be a bucketload of manufacturers out there willing to give you a car to drive the absolute bejaysus out of: you are the Cleopatra/Victoria/Boudica of car testers on the planet!!! 😁
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Nice but only 720p in 2023?
Might be all that the company being advertised was prepared to pay for 😂😂
@24k__J really? I'd have never guessed that! BTW, that is sarcasm as well as my original response.
I feel sorry for anyone who has jumped on the government bandwagon and already got an EV where as realistically we still have 30 years before you really need one (buy a petrol one in 10 years time) then keep that for 20 years but by then they will probably be hassle free
No thanks
You missed one really important thing you need - a house with a driveway. Such a shame you are pushing the EV BS.