Assume the day rate for a decent installer is £350 - whilst it might only take half a day, it also might not, and there will be travel involved. So no -good- installer will book two jobs in on one day. Anyone planning on doing two a day is going to be taking short cuts.

You've then got parts - you may need an additional consumer unit / Henley blocks / open-PEN detection unit depending on your charger. That's potentially up to another 300 quid.

Then the cost of the actual EVSE and you can see that you're easily into 1K+ pre-grant.

 

UK Charger Suppliers

These are the one's I know of or have found for the UK. Any I missed then please let me know and I'll add them. These are the manufactures ... you can get some of these installed by your electrical supplier or a general EV Specialist. https://www.eocharging.com/ https://www.ohme-ev.com/...

www.polestar-forum.com

From £199 (if you can get a 32A commando socket installed cheap) too £1350+

Podpoint are in the £500-600 range after grant discount and installed. Zappi around £750.

 

Just cost me £736 to get a Wallbox Pulsar Plus installed in my garage - run from existing garage fuse board, about 7m of cabling through one partition wall. Took him the morning to do it and he also mentioned to me he only books in one job per day. That was via Engage Services (Manchester).

 

Running the new circuit cost me $1000 (a 200' run). The cost of the EVSE was about $700 IIRC. U.S. costs, of course, but kind of in line with what your compatriots are posting.

 

Thanks All, very enlightening. I have a number of friends/family in the building trade, no electricians sadly, and £350 a day is a vey healthy daily rate. I've just opened discussions with 'futurechargingsolutions', has anyone used these guys?

@GDank thanks for the link.

@356Pilot thanks for the tip on Engage Services.

I'll take a look at these. Essentially looking for a simple solution as most charging will happen at the works car park.

 

EVSE installations are quite specialised, especially around grounding requirements etc, so not all electricians will do them.

Try Rightcharge, the electric car charger comparison site to get some quotes, that’s how I found the installer I used.

 

If you share your approximate location, you might get a first hand recommendation of a local installer. They’re often a better bet than the big firms.

 

Hi,
I'm based in Crewe if that helps with a local installer recommendation,
Thanks
Ian

 

If you can charge at work, I would work out if you really need a box at home. We only use a granny charger using cheap electricity for 5 hours per night. Adds 10kw per night good for our average use. If we go further we can charge all night and add 30kw. Just a thought. We assumed we would need a box and had one on order. A cockup meant the order never got processed so we ended up using the granny charger by necessity. Soon realised it was all we need.

 

I paid £748 AFTER the grant for a Zappi. The installer seemed to know what he was talking about, didn't upsell me anything and it probably took him 3.5 hours in total. I'd happily recommend him.