When are you going fully electric?

sandys · 23 Aug 2022 at 23:32

you are probably paying extra for the 10m in addition to the 6.5, if you only think you need 7 it'd been worth dummying up a length of hose or something at the stock 6.5m to see if it would do first, assuming you haven't done that already, I should have done this

Yup grants are gone and other costs have gone up. Zappi unit is ~800, 10m cable about £150, never mind the additional bits that might be need from consumer unit. Hypervolt is cheaper.

Simon · 23 Aug 2022 at 23:36

Cable extra is like £30

FlapR · 24 Aug 2022 at 02:07

In response to the thread title: When they're not all a stupid price and it's easily chargeable.

b0rn2sk8 · 24 Aug 2022 at 07:18

@Simon there is no way to tell if that is an excessive price or not without knowing more about the installation itself, it could be simple in which case £1300 is a lot, it probably isn't straight forward (few are in reality) in which case its probably fine.

The charge point is £800+ plus materials and sparks round here charge £70+ an hour. It took them more than half a day to install my Hypervolt so they wouldn't have been going on to another job that day.

ICDP · 24 Aug 2022 at 07:31

He means EVs not charging cables

b0rn2sk8 · 24 Aug 2022 at 07:32

ICDP said:
He means EVs not charging cables

For clarity, I was responding to @Simon on the previous page. I've edited to make that clear

Simon · 24 Aug 2022 at 07:52

b0rn2sk8 said:
For clarity, I was responding to @Simon on the previous page. I've edited to make that clear

Yeh got the break down and pretty much £360 in materials (extra CU) £360 labour. Supply Cable would run under two floors - suspended wood from back of house to front

b0rn2sk8 · 24 Aug 2022 at 08:00

That sounds about right then and not exactly a simple install!

Gregvivi0401 · 24 Aug 2022 at 08:31

FlapR said:
In response to the thread title: When they're not all a stupid price and it's easily chargeable.

Maybe after 15 year's price's may go down a little.

Simon · 24 Aug 2022 at 09:09

b0rn2sk8 said:
That sounds about right then and not exactly a simple install!

Not when I said I’d take the floor up so he just has to clip to the joists. Anyway soon eats into any fuel savings !

b0rn2sk8 · 24 Aug 2022 at 09:12

Indeed, although the way I looked at it is that the cable/installation is going to be in the house for decades so it’s not like you are a amortising the cost over your initial ownership period. EVs aren’t going to go away anytime soon.

sandys · 24 Aug 2022 at 09:14

Simon said:
Cable extra is like £30

Ah you mean from MCU to the Zappi itself, that's was about £15 a metre for me, I thought you meant a new 10m tethered type 2 cable for the Zappi.

Simon · 24 Aug 2022 at 09:25

sandys said:
Ah you mean from MCU to the Zappi itself, that's was about £15 a metre for me, I thought you meant a new 10m tethered type 2 cable for the Zappi.

I did 7.5m to 10m is £30 more.

Simon · 24 Aug 2022 at 09:25

b0rn2sk8 said:
Indeed, although the way I looked at it is that the cable/installation is going to be in the house for decades so it’s not like you are a amortising the cost over your initial ownership period. EVs aren’t going to go away anytime soon.

But you are if you move house

b0rn2sk8 · 24 Aug 2022 at 09:29

Simon said:
But you are if you move house

Indeed but it’s swings and roundabouts.

When the housing market gets back to being somewhat more stable, it will probably make your property easier to sell. Same goes for solar.

Houses with charge points or have the ability to have one easily installed (E.g. off street parking) will command even more of a premium than they do now.

Simon · 24 Aug 2022 at 09:29

b0rn2sk8 said:
Indeed but it’s swings and roundabouts.

When the housing market gets back to being somewhat more stable, it will probably make your property easier to sell. Same goes for solar.

No different to a quooker tap or built in appliances tbh. Just the cost is insane if you ask me. Electric showers seem to be no effort and seems it’s a EV owner tax tbh. £700 for a fancy switch. But hey

sandys · 24 Aug 2022 at 09:30

Simon said:
I did 7.5m to 10m is £30 more.

That's cheap both hypervolt and zappi quotes for me were £60 for 7.5 and 120 to 160 for 10m, perhaps they now sell it with those options by default rather than junking original cable for new one.

Simon · 24 Aug 2022 at 09:42

Oh that price was the hypervolt. Not Zappi sorry. Too much going on

I think it’s fair. As a new CU is £145 just something to consider. (Plus I need to get DNO to unloop)

Jonnycoupe · 24 Aug 2022 at 12:34

Simon said:
No different to a quooker tap or built in appliances tbh. Just the cost is insane if you ask me. Electric showers seem to be no effort and seems it’s a EV owner tax tbh. £700 for a fancy switch. But hey

Did the labour quote change for a shower install in your driveway?

viper_2003 · 25 Aug 2022 at 07:38

After a comparatively short 6 months but with some frustrating delays our iPace arrived this week.

Only driven about 40 miles myself but first impressions are that it’s great. I managed to pick up an HSE Black through my employers salary sacrifice scheme for a net £450 p/m (inclusive of everything) which was very similar to an iX3, ev6 etc.

Build quality and reliability might prove to be its undoing but it’s very comfortable, quick, quiet and generally feels ‘right’. Some cars I need some time to adapt to but not this time.