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13A EV socket

lyledunn
TNCS system in local development. Second hand BMW 330E Hybrid with ICCB that appears to restrict charging to 6A. Owner wants 13A socket on outside wall of house. 

The area is near the Mourne mountains where an Ra of 200 ohms would be difficult to achieve with a single rod. In any event the driveway has just be nicely finished. It would be a simple matter of drilling through the back of the meter cupboard to provide  the 13A socket but it is the loss of neutral protection that is the problem. Anyone know if loss of neutral protection is available as a separate item?
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    I agree - but the power in question is not the load at the bus stop, which will be hundreds of watts, so a few amps, nor the car, which may be 10-12A on a 13A socket "granny lead", but all the load downstream of the PEN break - which could be anywhere between the substation and the car charge point. I'm visualising  a case when  the lamp post and the house with the electric car are both on the wrong side of the same PEN break.

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    I agree - but the power in question is not the load at the bus stop, which will be hundreds of watts, so a few amps, nor the car, which may be 10-12A on a 13A socket "granny lead", but all the load downstream of the PEN break - which could be anywhere between the substation and the car charge point. I'm visualising  a case when  the lamp post and the house with the electric car are both on the wrong side of the same PEN break.

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