New home charger - tethered or untethered?

[Martyn76]

Collected our new EV on Friday and looking to get a charge point installed via our Gas\Electric supplier, obvious choices are tethered or untethered, my wife is leaning towards an untethered unit as it's tidier.

what have people gone for and why?

[Fastlane]

Tethered. Can't be arsed with getting a cable out each time I charge, especially when it's cold dark and wet.

I bought an Andersen A2 as it hides the (8.5m) cable.

Nearly 5 years on and it's still going strong charging 2 EVs doing c.24k miles a year between them.

[TheDrownedApe]

always tethered at home

[Nomme de Plum]

Tethered. 8M cable.

[Martyn76]

Nomme de Plum said:

Tethered. 8M cable.

How do you store the cable when not in use, a hook or similar?

[SGirl]

I went with untethered, although I always leave the cable plugged in so it may as well have been tethered.

I appreciate this is no use whatsoever. I'm just sayin'.

[MrBig]

Untethered here. Neater, cheaper and less worries about someone interfering with the cable.

[JQ]

Untethered.

We have a tethered charger (Ohme Home Pro) and you still need to wrap up the cable after each use, no different to getting it out of the boot of the car (which is right next to the charger). But untethered looks much neater. If we ever have to change our charger we'll definitely move to untethered.

[ZesPak]

Martyn76 said:

Nomme de Plum said:

Tethered. 8M cable.

How do you store the cable when not in use, a hook or similar?

Couple of "depends" here.

I couldn't make out whether it's indoors or outdoors?

The main reason (not the only one) public chargers are untethered is because cables would be the biggest point of failure (lying on the floor, car driving over,...).
So make sure you can possibly avoid that.

We have a 3m tethered cable and a 7m one. Some charge points, if mounted to the wall, are their own "cable hook", the cable will then hang there.
If it's outside some people might not like the look and having it exposed to the elements.

I've seen chargers that solve this by having a cabinet, like the Andersen chargers, but I remember them going out of business?

At home, I'd always have a tethered charger. As mentioned, don't want to faff with a cable like that every time.

[Nomme de Plum]

Martyn76 said:

Nomme de Plum said:

Tethered. 8M cable.

How do you store the cable when not in use, a hook or similar?

My Ohme charger came with a cable tidy on which to loop the cable. Mine is installed in the Garage.

[quinny100]

Tethered or untethered but leave a cable plugged in all the time. I like my PodPoint charger because it's designed for the cable to wrap around the unit.

When selecting cable length, consider the worst case scenario as charge ports are in different locations and you'll probably change your car in future. Most units are relatively easy to change the tethered cables over should the need arise.

Getting a cable out and putting it away again is unnecessary faff.

[Actual]

Untethered and EV Charger installed inside garage with charging cable snaking out under garage door.

Charging cable always plugged in and hung over the side fence except when we go on holiday and the cable is brought inside for security.

[Martyn76]

ZesPak said:

Martyn76 said:

Nomme de Plum said:

Tethered. 8M cable.

How do you store the cable when not in use, a hook or similar?

Couple of "depends" here.

I couldn't make out whether it's indoors or outdoors?

The main reason (not the only one) public chargers are untethered is because cables would be the biggest point of failure (lying on the floor, car driving over,...).
So make sure you can possibly avoid that.

We have a 3m tethered cable and a 7m one. Some charge points, if mounted to the wall, are their own "cable hook", the cable will then hang there.
If it's outside some people might not like the look and having it exposed to the elements.

I've seen chargers that solve this by having a cabinet, like the Andersen chargers, but I remember them going out of business?

At home, I'd always have a tethered charger. As mentioned, don't want to faff with a cable like that every time.

This is will outside, I think I'm leaning towards a tethered unit...

[Dolf Stoppard]

Charge once a week (like me). Untethered. Charge every night. Tethered.

I like the neater look of ours and no hassle to get the cable out of the boot.

[phil4]

Two, bother tethered.

Charger body can have cable wrapped around, but I just can't be bothered, so cable just lays where it was used and handle over the charger so it doesn't get water raining into it.

Yes, I'm lazy. Really lazy.

[Fastlane]

ZesPak said:

I've seen chargers that solve this by having a cabinet, like the Andersen chargers, but I remember them going out of business?

They briefly went into administration but were bought out and continue today. They have recently introduced a smaller unit called the A3, alongside the original A2.

[troika]

Untethered. Ohme epod in the garage with 15M cable which I run under the garage door and will reach anywhere on the drive.

[paradigital]

Tethered Zappi mounted on the outside of the garage. Reaches three of four spaces on the drive no problems.

The last thing I’d want to be doing in the lashing rain, hail, sleet or snow is faffing round getting a cable out of the boot or frunk and then packing it away again when I’m done.

[Kateg28]

paradigital said:

Tethered Zappi mounted on the outside of the garage. Reaches three of four spaces on the drive no problems.

The last thing I’d want to be doing in the lashing rain, hail, sleet or snow is faffing round getting a cable out of the boot or frunk and then packing it away again when I’m done.

Same here.
Even more of a faff if the boot is full of work stuff.
Our zappi still looks tidy with the cable wrapped around it neatly. Had it since March and very happy with it.

[No ideas for a name]

Tethered always looks the tidiest to me.