5 Things You Need Before Your Electric Car Arrives
If you’re about to get your very first electric car these are the five things I think you need to do before your car arrives and if you already own an electric car let me know in the comments if I’ve missed something that you think that people need to know before the car
Arrives to make sure their journey to Electric is as smooth and as cheap as possible now my advice will change slightly depending on whether this is your first car for company’s use as in not a personal vehicle or if it’s a personal vehicle even if it’s salary
Sacrifice the advice will be pretty much the same for you and it’s also mainly going to be concentrating on people who can charge at home but there will be some advice later in the video for people who can’t charge at home now first of all if you are one of the lucky
People who can charge at home you’re going to need to get an EV charger and this video isn’t going to go into the eeve charger reviews I’ve already done them at e.com charge I’ve reviewed pretty much every charger I’ll give you some advice on what to look for in the charger in a
Minute but before you get an EV charger you’re going to make sure that you’ve got an isolated fitted at your home consumer unit so basically where the power comes in from your meter after your meter you should have an isolator if you don’t have an isolator some installers won’t install you an EV
Charger because they have no means of isolating the supply to fit a separate consumer box closer towards where your me tails come in now this is the case it can take several weeks for them to get an isolator fitted and some places actually do charge reliz there to get
Fitted I’ve got a tip by the way in a second on how to get one of those free also if you are getting an EV charger and you are uh you know you’ve got an isolator ready make sure the charger you’re getting is actually able to do
What you need it to do well one of the most important things is can it log the charging rates especially if you’re going to be charging for company use and billing the company back you need to know the charge sessions and how much they come in for so A system that has
Different logging data that’s easily to extract is really important there’s also other things to consider with can it get the the cheapest electricity rates because some Chargers can get access to special deals from different energy companies to offer even cheaper electricity we can come back to that one
In a minute as well my next tip is make sure you get a smart meter installed if you haven’t got a smart meter installed you’re going to need one for the next tip we’re going to come up with in a minute but getting a smart meter helps
With my last piece of advice because if you haven’t got a smart meter you can get them to install an isolator at the same time as a smart meter and they won’t charge you for the isolator or the smart meter install so if you haven’t got an isolator and you haven’t got a
Smart meter this is my best hack for getting a free isolator fitted so get that one done as soon as possible because you’re going to need a smart meter trust me now if you’ve already got a smart meter you’re going to become best friends with this chap here oxus
Energy offer one of the cheapest energy deals around for Ev customers and EV Chargers now some EV chargers at the time of recording this video the Omi wallbox and my energy EV Chargers going to access the super cheap octop go intelligent deal which gives a fix 6 hours every night plus additional bonus
Hours it is by far one of the cheapest EV deals available go to EV nick.com enery and if you’re not an octopus customer there’s a Code there you sign up and you split1 with me which means you start off not only going on one of the cheapest
Energy deals but with a little bit of a bonus credit to get you rolling into your first EV charge the world of EV charging has changed massively since I came into it 9 years ago back then you had to have every single company’s app they didn’t always work it was a
Nightmare now you can just go over a debit card tap it on the machine and it will work there’s also legislation coming in that all charges over 7 kilow will now have to have a debit card transaction or credit card transaction so you can start the charge directly on
The charger great news for any one buying an EV in the future now that’s brilliant but it might not actually be the best to just tap your debit card on these machines now the device will change depending if you’re company or personal owner but they me just tell you
What would happen if you’re a personal person having a credit card having a debit card and tapping in if you were tapping on several machines throughout the day doing a long journey doing lots of tapping on rabbit charge because you needed lots of charge to get somewhere the pre-authorization fee on those Taps
Could sue secure almost all of your balance which means that you might not be able to book a hotel later on you might not be able to have enough another charge because your credit card might be maxed out or your balance might be maxed out just on pre-authorization fees until the card
Machine and they drop your charges tell the card company how much electricity you actually used rather than reserving a silly figure because some of them Reserve 99 P even though they’re not going to take that much off you so what you can do instead is if you’re getting
A company card ensure that your company give you a card bit like a fuel card can have a charge card that works on rapid charges so you can use pretty much any rapid charger in the country tap the card on and centrally built to your company if you got a company car that’s
The solution for you but if you haven’t got a company car and you’re a personal driver then I recommend you get an octopus Universe card there’s a link Down Below in the description I think you get10 when you sign up using my code but when you use that code and you sign
Up you’ll get a card the Little Octopus Universe card can be tapped on pretty much every rapid charger not every rapid charger there’s a few networks that are in it but pretty much every rapid charger except for octopus Universe now and if you’re already on the previous tips that I mentioned octopus
Intelligent you will actually get a further discount over on the charges but if you’re an octopus customer you still get a discount and if you’re not an octopus customer you can still get an octopus Universe card which can be really useful for managing multiple charge sessions and seeing a detailed
Bill of where you’ve been charging now before we get into my final tip let me first first explain to you the world of EVS because the world of EVS can change you quite radically even though you didn’t think it was going to you might have had this car forced upon you by
Work you might be actually wanting to buy an EV but your world is going to change regardless of which of those categories you’re in because you’re going to understand energy more now when I first got my EV the community was very small forums were very small and those
Forums are still there they’re full of really helpful Guides of people suggest you join them if you want that kind of help but if you don’t that’s fine there shows all over the country like everything electric that used to be named fully charged when I went there it
Was a tiny tiny show now it’s a huge massive show free shows in the UK I’ll be attending Excel London and Harriet I’m usually there nearly every year I’ve got a panel session on both of those as well so if you are coming along come and
Say hello to me um but mainly your sort of feeling of of energy is going to change and that’s why fully charge got named everything electric because the world of EV driving brings you into everything that’s electric you’re going to start learning about heat pumps you’re going to start learning about
Solar panels and battery storage and that’s because when you have an EV to charge your home you’ll understand how energy works more and you’ll want to cut your bills especially by buying something like solar panels now there’s a place here all about solar panels and I’m doing a playlist here that I’ve just
Started about heat pumps
Got your first electric car arriving or coming soon? Make sure you get these 5 things done as soon as possible they will make your life easier, Save you MONEY and more importantly TIME as some of these things can take MONTHS to finally happen so the quicker you get round to doing them the better!
00:00 Do This Before you get an electric car
00:19 Company Car Or Personal Use?
00:40 Electrical Isolator & EV Chargers
02:11 Smart METER hack saving money
02:47 Octopus Energy Cheapest Energy Deal
03:33 Public Charging Discounts
05:58 The Journey to renewables has JUST started
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