Home wall box recommendations?

Kia e-Niro which offers an all-electric, zero-emissions powertrain
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newbiemick
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Post by newbiemick »

Hi,
My MY21 yacht blue eNiro 4+ 64kW is due end of January (brought forward from mid March :) ), so now I need to organise a wall box.
Does anyone have a recommendation or good, bad reports?
Cheers!

SeanNugent
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Post by SeanNugent »

Depends on how much you want to pay, and what else you have,
Just not a rolec, at lest not without changing some of the internal parts

Things to consider.
1. Err indoors "that doesn't look very nice"
2. Price
3. Solar Power
4. House Batteries
5. 1 phase or 3 phase
6. What sort of driving you do, miles / day etc
7. How much intelligence do you want / need to EVSE to have

Kia I think do an offer of a pod point and a years polar (i think). Note that public charging is not the most important issue out there (for example I have never needed to use a public charger - although I have done twice, just to see if it worked)
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newbiemick
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Post by newbiemick »

Cheers for the reply.
I decided on the Ohme through Romatech http://www.romatech.co.uk They offered the best customer service and advice, including a few useful phone calls with the husband and wife team that own the business.
We just have single phase, no solar and its a neat installation, so ticked all of the boxes you mentioned
The car is still due end of this month, so I'm looking forward to the EV experience

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SeanNugent
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Post by SeanNugent »

Your next step is to look at your electricity supplier.
Do you have smart meters, can you get smart meters.

I charge at 5p/unit overnight with a daily rate of 13 or so - so fairly normal during the day and 4 hours at 5p/night. There are other options available - but they all require SMETS2 or in some cases SMETS1 meters
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newbiemick
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Post by newbiemick »

We decided to go with Octopus Energy and will be up and running mid February. We have the older smart meter, but they will upgrade us to the latest ones. From your 4 hours of 5p, it sounds like you're on the Octopus Agile tariff

I took delivery of the car last Friday...very impressed so far!!

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Post by SeanNugent »

Nope - I am on Go.
I keep looking at Agile - but for my use case - Agile (in particular at the moment) would be a lot more expensive than Go.

I like Go
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newbiemick
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Post by newbiemick »

I've looked harder and yes, Go is what I'll go with. Thanks for the tip!
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If you want to use my referral code its https://share.octopus.energy/coral-sheep-237
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Post by rivermist »

A bit late but as a general addition to this subject I opted for a Myenergi Zappi as I have a solar panel array on my roof. The box and install is a little more expensive than some but the options are worth it in my opinion, the overcurrent cut out is a great idea. This halts charging if the total house demand exceeds the main fuse limit. Its not discreet at all but easy to use and with a very clear display that shows the electricity flow in a neat graphic. A local fitter completed the install easily and neatly. Install was in November and has been trouble free so far.
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