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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?





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    I am currently making my way through the COP for EV charging equipment. I commend it as a good addition to anyone’s technical library and would praise the lead author, Mr Graham Kenyon for a well presented document. I don’t regard myself as any kind of electrical expert but I guess that I can be given some credit for 30 years as a tutor and add another 8 as a contractor. There is plenty in the code that, well let’s say, stretches my technical understanding (I am sure that I will be posting some queries on that very topic in due course). Anyway, trying not to patronise and apologies if that seems the case, the vast majority of electrical contractors will not be up for wading through the intricacies of many aspects of the COP, especially the issues surrounding PME. At least for the domestic sector, they will want to go to the wholesalers and buy the cheapest and easiest bit of kit that fully complies. They will not want to be banging in electrodes or calculating or measuring their resistance. If they have to pay a wee bit more for a simple install then I reckon that is the road that will be taken.
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    I am currently making my way through the COP for EV charging equipment. I commend it as a good addition to anyone’s technical library and would praise the lead author, Mr Graham Kenyon for a well presented document. I don’t regard myself as any kind of electrical expert but I guess that I can be given some credit for 30 years as a tutor and add another 8 as a contractor. There is plenty in the code that, well let’s say, stretches my technical understanding (I am sure that I will be posting some queries on that very topic in due course). Anyway, trying not to patronise and apologies if that seems the case, the vast majority of electrical contractors will not be up for wading through the intricacies of many aspects of the COP, especially the issues surrounding PME. At least for the domestic sector, they will want to go to the wholesalers and buy the cheapest and easiest bit of kit that fully complies. They will not want to be banging in electrodes or calculating or measuring their resistance. If they have to pay a wee bit more for a simple install then I reckon that is the road that will be taken.
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