How a home charger can save you hundreds
Once you’ve bought your electric car, the biggest cost is charging it. Where and how you plug in can make a huge difference to your wallet, especially at home. The key to those savings is making sure that you take advantage of the right home energy tariff, and having a charger like the Andersen A3 lets you make the most of it.
Discover all the benefits of your own electric vehicle charge point below:
Safety
Household sockets are not designed to take continuous loads of electricity, and to charge a vehicle to full via a three-pin plug, it would take up to two days. If there are any faults in your electrics, this could cause some issues. With a purpose built charger like this Andersen A3, you don’t have to worry about any of that. A charging unit like this is connected directly to your fusebox. Wiring it directly to this means that no undue loading is put on the ring main of your house.
Speed
Three-pin plugs can only charge an electric car at a maximum of 2.3kW. An Andersen A3 charge point can charge at 7kW because it delivers three times as much power, it can charge your car three times quicker. If your house has a three phase electricity supply you can have a charger that will go
even quicker to 22kW. This means you can charge your car from empty to full in a matter of hours.
Convenience
Home charge points make life with an electric vehicle so much easier and significantly reduce your running costs. For example, if you have cheap rate overnight electricity, you can tell the charger that you only want it to deliver power at certain times.
And because you are able to get more power into your car during those cheap rate times, you will find that charging your car is cheaper as well as faster.
