My EV charger is about 20m from its consumer unit and goes underground to a detached garage. It was a bit more than a standard install but not much, a couple of hundred. They lifted the slabs, dug the hole and made good.
It’s will be fine. A surface mounted cable will only take them a couple of hours to run.
Can someone help answer a question.
I think I'm starting to understand how the Tesla supercharger system works in tandem with the cars navigation and works out when and where to charge, if a charger is functioning and available etc.
On a non Tesla car does the navigation system work in the same way?
Im trying understand the advantage of a Tesla over other brands.
The Tesla system is super simple as an end user.
It knows there the chargers are, how busy they usually are, how many people are using them in real time, how many Tesla are navigating to a particular charger at any one time and how long they are expected to spend there. They can also tell if there are any cars waiting.
It uses all that data to try and get you (and everyone else) to your destination in the quickest time.
To use the charger, you just plug in and that’s it, they bill your account directly, no messing around.
The key USP is that they are miles cheaper than anything else on the market. 35-45p/kwh is typical with the higher amount being the price from 4-8pm. Your typical public rapid charger is 75-80p/kwh. Some are has high as 85p and even 91p
Their van also has a selection of non Tesla chargers in it but they’ll not navigate you to them directly, you’ll have to manually select it.
As mentioned above, other car nav’s can do this to an extent but they don’t have the same data Tesla does so they can’t do it as well. They can generally only see there is a charger there and how fast it is, sometimes they take occupancy into account but they won’t know if there is a queue.
Some car sat nav’s are as thick as 2 planks and will recommend a single 50kw charger in the back of a pub car park which is probably broken and ignore the huge 10 bay 350kw hub 1 mile down the road.
