Moving electric car chargepoint to new house

[DetlefSchmitz]

Well anyone can have one installed if they pay for it. I seem to remember that the old grant scheme didn't require you to have a car though, but I could be wrong.

 

[DetlefSchmitz]

Does that mean if you buy a new car, you can get a second grant and charging point?

No, I should have quoted in full. 'per household/eligible vehicle'. Google it. It took me 30 seconds to find.

 

[ban-all-sheds]

Does that mean if you buy a new car, you can get a second grant and charging point?

No, it means that if you sell your house you have to sell your car as well.

 

[Adam_151]

Well anyone can have one installed if they pay for it. I seem to remember that the old grant scheme didn't require you to have a car though, but I could be wrong.

Sorry, I missed out the "Because it was free" bit in the paraphasing

But its interesting that there was an old scheme that didnt require you to have an EV, probably got discontinued because of that sort of abuse of it!

It would be better if the condition was if the property doesn't have a charger AND the owner of the propery has resonable grounds for one (Owns EV, leases EV, has EV assigned as company vehicle etc) with perhaps some kind of safeguard that someone with 100 buy to let proerties couldn't have 100 chargers installed, 95 % of which would never be used

 

[DetlefSchmitz]

It would be better if the condition was if the property doesn't have a charger AND the owner of the propery has resonable grounds for one

Agreed, but when has the civil service ever thought that carefully about anything?

I collected an urgent passport yesterday in person. At the 'interview' I was ask to evaluate the person's performance and drop the form into the collection point in the entrance hall. But the only way out of the security check took me outside the back of the building.

 

[Adam_151]

Agreed, but when has the civil service ever thought that carefully about anything?

Only when it directly affects their own agendas and carreers

 

[davelx]

One of the good points about a Tesla is that they can charge @7kW from a standard 32A industrial socket - the required protection being incorporated in the adapter cable that links the standard Type 2 charging cable to the 32A plug:

https://www.tesla.com/sites/default...nstall_guide_industrial_socket_blue_DEC16.pdf

 

[RobTi]

Can’t you sell the car to a family member registered at the new address then apply for grant

 

[DetlefSchmitz]

Can’t you sell the car to a family member registered at the new address then apply for grant

'per household/eligible vehicle'. No, on 2 counts.

 

[JohnW2]

'per household/eligible vehicle'. No, on 2 counts.

That seems to raise two questions.

Firstly, does 'a household' refer to a group of people (regardless of where they live), rather than a group of people living at a particular address? Secondly, does a vehicle become 'ineligible' for someone who subsequently becomes the owner if it has already been subject of a grant (under previous ownership)?

Kind Regards, John

 

[DetlefSchmitz]

This comes under the heading of 'you would have to ask the government'. I doubt that they would even understand the questions as they are represented on the phone by people who have no experience of the questions they get asked.

 

[JohnW2]

This comes under the heading of 'you would have to ask the government'. I doubt that they would even understand the questions as they are represented on the phone by people who have no experience of the questions they get asked.

That's all true, but I wouldn't be surprised (for much the same reasons) if one didn't actually have to ask the questions ...

... if a new owner of the vehicle (who had never previously applied for a grant) applied for a grant for an address that had not previously had a grant (i.e. what EFLI suggested, using a family member), then I suspect that they might well (without thinking any more deeply) regard that as satisfying the 'one grant per household/eligible vehicle' requirement, and would therefore simply issue the grant.

Kind Regards, John

 

[DetlefSchmitz]

You might very well think that; I couldn't possibly comment ... except - the result will not depend on logic, but a random interpretation of the rules.

 

[JohnW2]

You might very well think that; I couldn't possibly comment ... except - the result will not depend on logic, but a random interpretation of the rules.

Again true, with the proviso that anything other than the interpretation I suggested would probably require more thinking than is probably usually available - if it's an address for which a grant has never been issued (hence obviously not for any particular vehicle there) limited thought would probably lead to the assumption that the siutuation satisfied the rules (and, indeed, that might even be the 'intended' interpretation of the rules)! However, as you say, who knows?!

Kind Regards, John

 

[DetlefSchmitz]

Put it this way - anything is worth a try. It it saves money it was worth it. Logic doesn't really apply as it is the government that decides. It probably depends whether a household at a new address is the same household who used to live at a different address. This is why civil servants get payed the big bucks.