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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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    The important bit is that any residual charge is removed slowly, to prevent a spark with enough energy to ignite fuel vapour. Connecting a low z Earth is very dangerous in a fuel vapour environment. Of course, this is completely ignored as cars do not have fuel vapour around them in any quantity except when being fueled and Hybrids are not charged when being fueled either, although I am sure some bright spark will think of that! Fully conductive hoses would be equally dangerous, putting a good spark in the fuel filler. I prefer diesel, much safer.
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    The important bit is that any residual charge is removed slowly, to prevent a spark with enough energy to ignite fuel vapour. Connecting a low z Earth is very dangerous in a fuel vapour environment. Of course, this is completely ignored as cars do not have fuel vapour around them in any quantity except when being fueled and Hybrids are not charged when being fueled either, although I am sure some bright spark will think of that! Fully conductive hoses would be equally dangerous, putting a good spark in the fuel filler. I prefer diesel, much safer.
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