Waiting for Your New EV in Marston Green? Get Your Charger Installed Before It Arrives

Most people book the charger after the car arrives, then spend two or three weeks on public chargers while they wait for an appointment. It is an avoidable irritation.

The installation is driven by your house, not by the vehicle sitting outside. If you know what is on order and roughly when it lands, the work can be done in advance.

Marston Green is mostly houses with driveways, and with the airport and the station close by a lot of local driving is short, regular and exactly the pattern home charging suits.

If your commute means the car sits on the drive every evening, an overnight charge on a domestic tariff is the cheapest energy that car will ever see.

The lead in the boot will keep you going in a pinch, but it is slow and it asks a domestic socket to work hard for hours at a time. A dedicated charge point is the proper answer, on its own protected circuit and on a timer.

We install BG SyncEV and Ohme, and there is no need to decide before you call. Tell us the car and the tariff you are on and the recommendation usually makes itself.

For a first EV in a typical Marston Green house, BG SyncEV is normally where we point people. If you have already signed up to an off-peak EV tariff in anticipation of the car, Ohme is worth discussing at the same time.

There is a full side-by-side here: BG SyncEV vs Ohme.

For a first electric car in a typical Marston Green house, BG SyncEV is normally where we point people. It is the unit our electrician fits most and it does the one job that matters: a full battery by morning.

That is our habit rather than a ranking. Tell us how you plan to charge and we will happily talk you out of it if Ohme is the better answer.

More about the unit: BG SyncEV home chargers.

If you have signed up to an off-peak EV tariff in anticipation of the car — and plenty of people do the week they order — Ohme's scheduling is designed around exactly that.

More about the unit: Ohme home chargers.

Yes. A single-phase domestic supply supports a 7kW to 7.4kW charge point, which is what nearly every home in the area has fitted.

Your car's own onboard charger decides how much of that it takes. Fitting something larger does not change the car, and 22kW would need a three-phase supply that domestic properties here do not have.

This is the whole point of the article: yes. We need to know the vehicle and to establish what the property requires, but the car does not need to be on the drive.

If your delivery date slips — and they do — a charger that is already installed simply sits there waiting. Nothing is wasted.

• Confirming the supply, earthing and consumer unit are suitable
• Agreeing the charger position against how you will actually park
• Installing a dedicated protected circuit
• Mounting and commissioning the unit
• Testing, paperwork and showing you the app settings

We will want to know which car is coming, where you will park it, and where your consumer unit and meter are. That is usually enough to establish what the job needs.

Flight-path double glazing and rendered elevations are common around here, so cable routes want planning rather than drilling on the day and hoping.

Booking early does not change the price, but it does mean the work is planned rather than rushed. What sets the figure is the cable run, the board and any supply or earthing work required.

Booking ahead does not change the price, but it does mean the survey and the work can be scheduled sensibly rather than squeezed in as an emergency the week your car arrives.

Full breakdown: what affects the cost of a home charger installation.

We cover Marston Green from just up the road, and we are happy to talk through the job while the car is still on order rather than waiting for delivery day.

If you are ready for a quote rather than a read, our Marston Green EV charger installation page has the detail.

We cover the surrounding area from the same base, including Chelmsley Wood, Sheldon, Coleshill, Bickenhill, Elmdon.