NON COMPLIANT NEW EV INSTALLATIONS

John Peckham:

I was sent some information from the ECA concerning an audit undertaken by the Office of Low Emission Vehicles.


The sites inspected were those installed by "qualified" and "registered" installers claiming the OLEV subsidy.


0.8% were found to be dangerous (C1), 19.6% Potentially Dangerous (C2) and 25.6% requires improvement (C3). That makes 46% of new EV installations by qualified and registered persons to be non-compliant.


Am I the only person who thinks this is an utter disgrace?





 

Disgrace? Yes! Surprising, no. One assumes they must have surveyed at least 125 units with one being given a code 1. That is bad but with nearly 20% seen as potentially dangerous, that is truly bad. I would love to know what the codes were awarded for. No doubt there were some that failed to meet the PME criteria with earth rods banged in without consideration to location or resistance. Inappropriate or no load management seems like another likely concern along with RCD issues probably making it in to the C2 and C3 boxes. Have you any further details John?

 

John Peckham:

I was sent some information from the ECA concerning an audit undertaken by the Office of Low Emission Vehicles.


The sites inspected were those installed by "qualified" and "registered" installers claiming the OLEV subsidy.


0.8% were found to be dangerous (C1), 19.6% Potentially Dangerous (C2) and 25.6% requires improvement (C3). That makes 46% of new EV installations by qualified and registered persons to be non-compliant.


Am I the only person who thinks this is an utter disgrace?





 

Disgrace? Yes! Surprising, no. One assumes they must have surveyed at least 125 units with one being given a code 1. That is bad but with nearly 20% seen as potentially dangerous, that is truly bad. I would love to know what the codes were awarded for. No doubt there were some that failed to meet the PME criteria with earth rods banged in without consideration to location or resistance. Inappropriate or no load management seems like another likely concern along with RCD issues probably making it in to the C2 and C3 boxes. Have you any further details John?