EV charger installation in San Vicente del Raspeig

San Vicente is largely terraced and semi-detached housing with a garage at ground level, which makes the physical installation about as simple as it gets.

The constraint is almost always the contracted power rather than the distance.

What your meter says about whether you need more power

A townhouse here typically has a modest contracted power and already runs an induction hob, an oven, an air conditioning system and a water heater. Add a car charging at full rate in the evening and you are close to, or over, the limit. The instinctive answer is to increase the contracted power. It is usually the wrong one.

Increasing contracted power raises the fixed portion of every bill for as long as you live there, in exchange for faster charging on the handful of occasions when the whole house is at full load simultaneously. Dynamic load management achieves nearly the same result for a one-off cost: a sensor on the supply tells the charger how much the rest of the house is drawing, and the charger takes only what is left. The car charges slower while the oven is on and faster once it is off, and you never trip the main switch.

Whether that works for you depends on hours rather than watts. A car parked from seven in the evening until seven in the morning has twelve hours available, and even a heavily derated charge rate fills a normal daily commute several times over. Where it does not work is a household with two electric cars, or one that needs a full charge in a short window.

This is why we read the meter before quoting. The contracted power, the tariff periods and what else is on the board decide between load management and an increase, and that decision is worth more to you than the choice of charger.