If that was caused by Renault’s FW update they are going to be facing an absolute bollocking. That looks potentially very dangerous.
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Don’t ask. Just send them the bill, and the photos.
Any quibble, and mention a lawsuit.
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Has it fucked the other 2 chargers you used, as well?
Thankfully just fucked this one.
The electrician I use out an extra cutoff between it and the house fuse box to be cautious. Bloody good thing he did that!
I’m really looking forward to tomorrow when I drop the car off, going full Falling Down if they don’t play ball.
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Although if it did fubar an ecotricity charger it could be replaced by one from a better company.
Please go pro and post it here if they don’t play ball…
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Holy shitballs 
gas mask job? that’ll get em thinking.
Might be time to get out the soviet pbf for extra scare factor.
Dropped the car off and decided to hold back about my home charger. I’m just waiting for them to call and admit a fault with the car first, before I bring that one out. Just in case they try and blame the charger.
From the app notifications it would appear it has tripped their charger too
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I still can’t work out how this has happened. Presumably there is a fault with the car, and the new software update has removed a safety trigger?
Will be interesting to know, hopefully they can explain it and not just replace stuff hoping for the best
Surely the purpose of the breaker is to prevent this kind of damage? Regardless of what the car does, this shouldn’t have happened. This would make me question the wire rating and breakers used in the installation. 
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Indeed, the charger would have kept going from the looks of it, the RCBO tripped it before it tripped the circuit in the house.
Before I knew what it had done inside the charger I just flicked the switch and the charger was trying to power up still. It would cut the RCBO again when I assume it was starting to test the power available.
Even though the cable was toast it was still connected and hadn’t shorted to anything.
I guess the breakers sort of did the job as it didn’t start a proper fire and burn the house down, but the cable shouldn’t have got that hot. Something ain’t right and it isn’t just the car.
You would hope not! Not something I know about, but yeah melty got cables can’t be good. My other charger at work has a thermal cut I’m assuming it stop things like this. I assumed the Wallbox would have too, but maybe not.
So all chargers I tried except the home one just needed resetting to work again. Certainly doesn’t make me want to keep the Wallbox.
Doesn’t inspire confidence. 
I would ping your installer about that. Whatever fuckery Renault have introduced with that FW, that doesn’t look like a graceful fault condition that a properly installed wall charger would allow for.
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Installer has been really good he just wants to hear what Renault say first before he will contact Wallbox, he specialises in solar&battery and car chargers so should be up to it.
This is work, which is the same as home install. Massive switch to stop pikeys nicking my electrics, then a separate box before going in the main box.
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