In message , at 16:09:09 on Wed, 18 Mar
2020, Brian Reay remarked:
You could imagine the same principle for charge points - apply to the
council, council electrician comes and installs approved charge point in the
road, wired in to your electricity supply, council makes good the pavement.
You get a proper 32A (or whatever) fast charging point outside your house.

Not so clever when you have a 60A main fuse.


Provided your €˜tails ( the cables from the incomer (main cable) to the
meter and meter to consumer unit) are 25mm, the power company will upgrade
you to 100A free.

There is a page on the website, you pop in some basic details, book a date,
someone turns up, does the swap, job done. Unbelievably efficient.

The two chaps who did mine were great, they commented on my earth bonding,
which led to an interesting chat re how much of they work was involved in
changing earths to PME and a few other things. Even did an Earth check. All
for a cup of coffee and chocolate biscuits.

There was no other fee? I've been advised that upgrading the tails is
something *I* need to pay for.
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Roland Perry