Workplace Chargers

[TallTony]

Today I have been looking at getting a charger installed at work. So far I have been quoted £1700 for a wall-mount and £4200 for a twin-socket pillar, this is somewhat more than expected. Can anyone make any recommendations?

Thanks, TT

[skilly1]

Is the £1,700 inc VAT?

I got mine from charging solutions and it cost £1,700 inc vat because I needed to have a GSM data collection system for a government grant I was going for.

Without the need for the GSM system it would have cost £629 for a 32 amp charger and £149 for the cable.

ETA - that was for equipment supply only, not install.

[hoganscrogan]

For £379+ VAT you can get the Rolec 32amp charger unit from here http://www.naturalsparx.co.uk/product/1051047425/R...

Then get a sparky to install. I'm sure you could get it done for under £1,700, certainly two of them would be well under £4,200 - I sense people are milking the EV crowd at the moment, simple electrics should not cost so much! The three pin socket version costs.... £68! http://www.naturalsparx.co.uk/product/1052056162/R...



BTW the only other place I have found an online price for these units was nearly double!

Edited by hoganscrogan on Wednesday 25th June 12:36

[TallTony]

Thanks, that is a lot of money saved!

[TallTony]

skilly1 said:

Is the £1,700 inc VAT?

I got mine from charging solutions and it cost £1,700 inc vat because I needed to have a GSM data collection system for a government grant I was going for.

Without the need for the GSM system it would have cost £629 for a 32 amp charger and £149 for the cable.

ETA - that was for equipment supply only, not install.

Skilly1 - what is this government grant that you talk of?

[skilly1]

It was a plugged in midlands government grant which gave you 40% of any install costs. I needed a lot of electrical work to make it feasible as our main 3 phase circuit board was not up to the job so we needed a new one, plus other various re-wiring because of that.
I think it has now ended - although another Ph'er got in touch with their council on the off change and they paid a large contribution to their install.