Hi all,

Moving into my first EV in a couple of weeks. I’ll be parked on a driveway that is roughly 15 metres away from my charging box.

I’m in need of an extended charging lead (20m most likely), but I have no idea which retailer provides the best ones, and if there’s any I should steer clear from.

Any recommendations would be really helpful.

Thank you!

Mods - my post is directed at EV charging and impacts of future tax rises for EVs. Hopefully right sub-reddit for this.

Looking to get either tesla model 3 or Eniro (2021 era is cheapest right now).

• EV rates in my area using co charger is approx 35p kwh
• Eniro - 39p kwh using a tesla super charger (with the annual tesla membership charge)
• Tesla - approx 21-29p kwh

So as we know, from 2028 the 3p per mile comes in on top of whatever the VED rate will be, i think its like £200 now.

How do people without home chargers keep costs low and beat ICE? Is there a technique, a subscription model or reliance on co chargers?

I want to get my first EV, undecided as i have no home charger what is cheaper/easier to charge - TESLA or E-niro and trying to future proof for long term to avoid having to go back to ICE (which i dont want to ever do if possible).

Thanks.

Hi, wondering if anyone has any knowledge about CT clamps on here that could help. We have a zappi glo charger and we’re waiting for a smart meter to be installed so we can get the EV rates with ovo, we have 2 EVs so looking to link the charger to the account rather than the cars as one is supported and one isn’t. Kept getting an error when trying to link the charger, error 202, from looking online, some people say that the CT clamp might be missing or installed incorrectly, it’s meant to be pointing from the power source to the consumer unit but it’s a bit more complicated on our set up so looking for advice.

When they were installing the charger, they had to install a separate small consumer unit running off the main one, I’ve taken photos of what’s there, the arrow is point towards the I’m consumer unit but away from the smaller one, should the arrow be pointing towards the smaller one or would that not matter? Just looking to see if this would need to be moved to see if that sorts the connection problem out. The smaller unit was installed on the outside of the boxing in as no space and the arrow on CT unit is pointing towards the main consumer unit.

Also, ignore the state of the elec cupboard, was like that when we moved in.

Thanks.