Doable? Worth doing? In Scotland I see that there are grants available for professional installations (which seem to be around the £1000 mark). Are there significant savings to be had by DIYing it and are there any significant ?gotchas? that one needs to be aware of? I do realise that this probably falls into the ?if you have to ask, you shouldn?t be doing it? category of jobs but just curious to know if a) you averagely competent DIYer could do it or b) make some saving by installing an appropriate unconnected cable for a sparky to finish off? Tim

I explored this a few years ago and found lots of info on-line but decided to save the hassle so bought (and modified) a Rolec charge point ... there are several on fleabay at the moment.

DIY domestic electric vehicle charging point?

Theo 5 years ago

I suspect they mean Arizona-scale 'hot', not Bournemouth.

Most EVs have active battery cooling so they can manage battery temperature. If it's hooked up to a charger I expect it to do that. If it's not on a charger I don't know whether it will expend some juice to cool the battery while parked, maybe there is a setting for that. In Arizona when it's 40+C ambient every day in the summer, cars can get up to 70C in the sun. That's the sort of thing that's not good for batteries - getting them up to 40C isn't a problem.

Heat makes it worse, but they do still have EVs in Arizona and they last well enough.

Theo

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charles 5 years ago

SWMBO destroyed the battery in her TomTom when parked in Surrey. I had said take the unit indoors, but she 'forgot'.

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Andy Burns 5 years ago

AIUI, that's why some dashcams use supercaps instead of batteries, they know they'll get left and cooked.

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Andrew 5 years ago

My loft is over 40C at the moment. Any dark-coloured car is going to get very hot. At the moment my (metallic dark grey) car has an old sheet over it, held in place with some nifty alloy clips that Range sell, in a range of sizes. Keeps the inside much cooler.

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harry 5 years ago

I do realise that

Undoubtedly.

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