There is handshaking that goes on between the car and the unit that provides the power. So with the normal plug, it’s a special cable that has some gubbins that does this. Without this, I doubt it would charge at all.
I don’t think it’s complicated, @edd9000 wants to install one but can’t be bothered I think as charging from a normal socket is fine for him. But you do need the unit.
The charger station is likely to be 3x the speed. If you only have 4 hours at 10A, you’ll only be able to add about 40 miles’ range per charging session.
I think I got my maths wrong.
I meant it’s 2.4 compared to about 7
66% was my cod sums!
Gibbons huh? I smell monkey business. 
My 45 mile round trip commute (when not home working) would easily be covered with 10A charge overnight - home by 6pm away 7.45 next morning.
Autocorrect makes me go ape
Are you channeling your inner @Jim or something?
Enjoy your ban.
Just get the fastest you can, it’s not much more for a quicker charger then you are always covered. Wallbox is decent and used to be about £100 less for installing with your own electrician. Less of a saving now, but for me it’s going the other side of the wall to the fusebox so will cost pennies to install.
You can diy the charger too, it’s what I use at work. Had a 32amp commando socket put in the worm garage and then I use the charger I built.
It’s just a contactor and a bit that communicates with the car along with an rcd. It’s all mounted on the house fuse box railings in a water resistant box
Our mains supply comes into the garage, so piece of piss to have a fast system on the side of the house next to the drive.
There are 2 charging points on Fetlar, both outside the museum which is 0.7 miles from my place.
I know nothing about these things, but does the wording below suggest it’s free? or am I missing something?
For that mileage you could get an old Nissan Leaf for about £6k that has an owned battery (this avoiding the £90/month charge). It’s got a range of around 100 miles, but would be good as a runaround and commuter for very little and cheap to run.
Something like a third of UK charging points are free. Scotland has particularly good free coverage.
I don’t know, having owned that era Leaf, I would never recommend a 100 mile car unless you have destination charging everywhere you will ever go.
Come winter and being second hand that’s a real world 70-80 miles. Have a half charged car on a return journey and suddenly your turning the heating off and slowing to a snails pace to make sure you get back before you run out.
If just for shops and back, it won’t be something that happens often. But why have that stress in the back of your head when a newer car with 200+ means it will never ever happen.
Chargeplace Scotland doing a lot of free charging.
My mum’s BF had an E-Up (Yorkshire’s EV!), and liked it, but when they took it on a trip to the North of England and back they spent lots of time panicking about range and charge points. So after only 1 year they have traded it for a Kia Soul EV.
I mostly agree, was just an idea since they will have two cars and a 45 mile max commute.
Buying a new or used EV isn’t happening. We’ll pcp a new one and change it in 3 years (when it is still perfectly servicable so perpetuating the new car demand roundabout).
Check out the Hyundai Ioniq, they regularly come up at just over £200/m for a 24 month lease. It tends to be the heaviest discounted.
We are still using the slow charge from a wall socket, to lazy to sort out a charging box. Gets charged once a week over night so it’s no big deal.
