How to install a charging point for the car at home

It makes no sense to buy a electric car if you are not going to install a home charger. So clear. In any case, you could recharge it at work, but if you depend on public chargersbetter forget about one BEV. These are usually fast charging, which will end up taking its toll on the health of the batteries and, most importantly, you will not benefit from the home valley rate, so with expensive public charges, it will be difficult to pay off the purchase of a vehicle electric.

Therefore, we are going to tell you what you should take into account when install a charging point for electric car at home.

Most likely, like most Spaniards, you live in a building. But don’t worry because this is not a problem when it comes to putting a charger for the electric car, since no permission is required to perform the installation; you just have to inform the neighborssince the cables will have to cross common areas and on many occasions adjustments will have to be made that can be used for future charging points.

And if you have one single family Home it will be the installation company who is in charge of carrying out a new Electrical Installation Certificate for the legalization of the electric vehicle charger and present the documentation in Industry of each autonomous community for its legalization. As the Sunalizer solar energy service platform reminds us, the installation company It will also be in charge of requesting the relevant aid. It is necessary for chargers to register with Industry and to install the protections required by current legislation.

If you install a charging point for the carthe safest thing is that it touches you change and improve the wiring and electrical panelin addition to performing contract extensions with your electricity company, since the new charger will increase the availability of energy in the home. The usual powers are multiples of 2 Amps starting from 10 Amps (single-phase), that is, 10, 12, 14, 16, etc. In addition, it is recommended to install a balancer or load manager to measure consumption in real time so that both consumptions (home + charger) do not exceed the maximum contracted power. This system is programmed into the charger.

The ideal is adapt the contracted power to what the vehicle can support in the home charger. Nowadays most vehicles allow charging up to 7 kw and only high-end vehicles exceed these powers. The installation company will be in charge of calculating and adjusting the power to the needs of the vehicle.

Although it is by no means mandatory, one way to optimize the benefits of having an electric car, such as savings and sustainability, is install solar plazas. At the beginning it involves an investment, but from its installation, they can supply 100% of the energy required by the electric vehicle. Another advantage is that later, when the technology is further developed, the car can be used as a energy accumulatorso that the energy collected from the solar squares, or the surplus after charging the car at valley rates, can be used to provide energy to the home.