You guys were so great when I had a question previously that I thought I might ask you something else, slightly unrelated to my last question however
At some point in the near future I'd take delivery of an electric car, the plan is to mainly charge it at work, and I have four possible electric meters which I could connect my charging socket to. Of these four, two are more ideally positioned based on where I'll likely park. the car appears to be able to charge in 3 ways, standard 13A plug (uselessly slow) an "industrial socket" will this be what I call a "cooker/dryer" socket, is it 7KW ? (quoted as 7.4 on the car manufacturers website)
Would my electrician make a separate connection direct to the meter (with it's own fuse ?) our consumer unit appears already full with the things it currently supplies
I'm guessing that our meters, which both appear to say "Single Phase 20-80amp" will suffice...... they're pretty old ?
and that if I want to have the ability to use the off-peak as well as day-rate, then I'll need two connections ? (the night rate socket will not operate during the day, the meter will be inactive ?)
the final way to charge is the manufacturers own "Wall connector" which appears to charge the fastest, using between 11 and 16.5kw... althought this would likely not be installed at work
At some point in the near future I'd take delivery of an electric car, the plan is to mainly charge it at work, and I have four possible electric meters which I could connect my charging socket to. Of these four, two are more ideally positioned based on where I'll likely park. the car appears to be able to charge in 3 ways, standard 13A plug (uselessly slow) an "industrial socket" will this be what I call a "cooker/dryer" socket, is it 7KW ? (quoted as 7.4 on the car manufacturers website)
Would my electrician make a separate connection direct to the meter (with it's own fuse ?) our consumer unit appears already full with the things it currently supplies
I'm guessing that our meters, which both appear to say "Single Phase 20-80amp" will suffice...... they're pretty old ?
and that if I want to have the ability to use the off-peak as well as day-rate, then I'll need two connections ? (the night rate socket will not operate during the day, the meter will be inactive ?)
the final way to charge is the manufacturers own "Wall connector" which appears to charge the fastest, using between 11 and 16.5kw... althought this would likely not be installed at work