EV charger installation in El Campello

El Campello runs several kilometres along the coast and climbs inland, and its properties range from seafront flats to villas on large plots.

That range makes the cable run the single biggest variable in what a charger costs here.

Why the cable run decides the price here

On a seafront flat with a communal garage, the supply and the parking space may be fifteen metres apart. On an inland plot, the meter can be at the road and the garage eighty metres away up a drive. The charger is identical. The installation is not, and the difference is frequently larger than the gap between two charger models.

The reason is voltage drop. A cable has to be sized so that the voltage at the far end stays within limits when the charger is drawing its full load continuously, and that requirement grows with length. A run four times longer does not need four times the copper, but it needs materially more, and on the longest runs here the conductor becomes the dominant cost of the whole job.

The second factor is what the cable has to pass through. A straight run through a garage on surface containment is quick. A run that crosses a garden, passes under a driveway, or has to be brought around the outside of a building is slower and needs protecting properly, because a buried cable laid without protection is the fault we come back to in five years.

Neither of these is visible in a photograph, which is why we will not quote this town remotely. A site visit takes twenty minutes and turns a range into a fixed figure, and on the longer runs it routinely changes the answer by more than the price of the charger itself.