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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  think we are all more or less agreed actually. If anything connecting a double insulated charger to a hybrid car may arguably  be slightly more or less likely to spark than connecting a solidly earthed one, but unless you are re-fuelling at the same time, the risk is very low, earthed cable or not.

    Which is just as well, or other things that could generate sparks, like bumping into metal fence posts or clipping the kerb edge  would carry a similar risk, while luckily cars only explode in minor collisions in the films due to the hard work of the special effects teams.

    I suspect that if cars had not been common for the last 100 years or so, and I turned up now proposing a vehicle with a fantastic new engine that combined liquid fuel with explosive vapour in a single skin tank 3 inches off the road surface pumped under pressure through rubber hoses,   high voltages and whirling belts behind a non-interlocked cover and a hot exhaust pipe exposed to touch at the outside I'd be blocked on health and safety grounds.
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    I  think we are all more or less agreed actually. If anything connecting a double insulated charger to a hybrid car may arguably  be slightly more or less likely to spark than connecting a solidly earthed one, but unless you are re-fuelling at the same time, the risk is very low, earthed cable or not.

    Which is just as well, or other things that could generate sparks, like bumping into metal fence posts or clipping the kerb edge  would carry a similar risk, while luckily cars only explode in minor collisions in the films due to the hard work of the special effects teams.

    I suspect that if cars had not been common for the last 100 years or so, and I turned up now proposing a vehicle with a fantastic new engine that combined liquid fuel with explosive vapour in a single skin tank 3 inches off the road surface pumped under pressure through rubber hoses,   high voltages and whirling belts behind a non-interlocked cover and a hot exhaust pipe exposed to touch at the outside I'd be blocked on health and safety grounds.
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