Home EV Charger Installation
Standard 7kW domestic charger, fitted and commissioned. Should be done to BS 7671 Section 722, with the DNO notified. All major brands available — tethered or untethered.
From £800 fittedCosts, grants and your options for getting a home, workplace or holiday-let charger fitted in Cornwall. We’re an independent guide, not an installer: we explain the choices, point you to installers, and can introduce you to a local one. Standard 7kW home installs typically cost from £800.
Getting a charger fitted in Cornwall has its own quirks, from the Tamar to Land's End: long single-phase runs in rural villages, undersized service heads in older granite cottages, and the DNO process for upgrades via National Grid Electricity Distribution (formerly Western Power).
Whoever fits your charger, national company or local electrician, check they’re OZEV-authorised if you’re claiming a grant, and get a firm written price after a survey. Our town guides cover what to expect where you live, whether that's a Truro townhouse, a Falmouth holiday let, or a smallholding outside Bodmin.
We’re an independent guide, not an installer. These are the honest options; pick whichever suits your job.
Companies such as Pod Energy (formerly Pod Point) sell the charger and installation together online at a fixed price, with installers covering Cornwall. Simple for a standard driveway install.
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A local electrician is often the better choice for trickier jobs: long cable runs, older supplies, three-phase, or holiday lets. If you’re claiming a grant, check they’re on the official list.
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Home, workplace, holiday-let, Tesla, smart and OZEV-grant installs: what each involves and what it typically costs.
Standard 7kW domestic charger, fitted and commissioned. Should be done to BS 7671 Section 722, with the DNO notified. All major brands available — tethered or untethered.
From £800 fittedMulti-bay charger installs for offices, hotels, visitor attractions and trade premises. Load-balanced where needed. Workplace Charging Scheme grant (up to £20,000) available; your installer claims it.
Bespoke quote — WCS grant availableSmart charger with code-per-booking control — every guest gets a unique unlock code for their stay. Increasingly a must-have on Cornish holiday-let listings. Holiday lets do not qualify for the home chargepoint grants; the Workplace Charging Scheme is open to small accommodation businesses.
From £900 fittedTesla Wall Connector Gen 3 fitted by an OZEV-approved installer. Tethered Type 2, 7kW (single-phase) or 22kW (three-phase). Works with any EV — not just Teslas.
From £450 charger + £400-£700 installZappi, Easee, Ohme or Pod Point. Solar diversion, Octopus Intelligent Go integration, load-balancing, app control. Our guides help you pick the right brand for your setup.
From £1,000 fittedOZEV grants for eligible renters, flat owners and residential landlords. You apply; your installer deducts the grant from the invoice.
Who qualifies, and how to applyTypical ranges for a straightforward single-phase install in Cornwall, checked September 2026. These are guides, not quotes. Long cable runs, consumer-unit upgrades, three-phase or load-balancing add to the cost — quoted on survey.
Single-phase 7kW charger fitted, BS 7671 Section 722 compliant, DNO notified. Around £450-£850 after the OZEV grant if eligible.
Zappi or Easee Plus with eco modes — surplus solar charges the car instead of going back to grid. Typically £1,100-£1,500 fitted.
Tesla Wall Connector hardware around £425-£530, plus £400-£700 installation. Works with any EV — not just Teslas.
Where a three-phase supply exists. Typical range £1,800-£3,000 depending on cable run and consumer-unit work.
OZEV-approved installers covering every corner of Cornwall — pick your nearest town for local detail on driveway access, DNO supply notes and typical install times.
The Workplace Charging Scheme pays up to £500 per socket (up to 40 sockets per applicant) towards staff and fleet charging, and the installer deducts it from the invoice. Our employer guide covers eligibility, the application route and the tax treatment.
Workplace Charging Scheme employer guide →Guests filter listings by ‘EV charging available’ — a tethered 7kW unit is now a booking-conversion essential. Coastal-rated hardware, guest billing options and multi-unit load balancing all covered.
EV chargers for Cornwall holiday lets →The questions we get most often about installing an EV charger in Cornwall.
A standard 7kW home install typically costs £800-£1,200 fitted, including a tethered or untethered unit, simple cable run and DNO notification. Smart chargers with solar diversion (Zappi, Easee Plus) tend to land at £1,100-£1,500. Three-phase 22kW installs — where the supply allows — usually run £1,800-£3,000. Long cable runs, consumer-unit upgrades or driveway trenching add to the cost; your installer will give a firm written quote after a quick remote or on-site survey.
The OZEV household chargepoint grant covers 75% of buying and installing a socket, up to £500, and closes on 31 March 2027. It is for people who rent their home or own and live in a flat, whose home has its own private off-street parking, and who own, lease or have ordered an eligible vehicle. People who own and live in a house are not eligible. Landlords have a separate grant of up to £500 per socket, but not for a property only used as holiday accommodation. Businesses use the Workplace Charging Scheme (up to £500 per socket, up to 40 sockets). You apply yourself, with a quote from an OZEV-authorised installer: check any installer you use is on the government's authorised list.
Most straightforward 7kW home installs take 3-5 hours on the day, from arrival to commissioning. Trickier jobs — long cable runs, consumer-unit upgrades, three-phase work, or load-balancing across multiple chargers — can run a full day or split across two visits. The pre-install survey (often remote, by photos and a few questions) takes 10-15 minutes.
For 95% of Cornwall homes, 7kW is the right answer. A 7kW charger adds around 25-30 miles of range per hour — more than enough for an overnight top-up. 22kW requires a three-phase supply, which most domestic properties don't have, and upgrading from single-phase costs thousands. 22kW makes sense for workplaces, holiday lets with high turnover, or homes that already have three-phase (rare in Cornwall — occasionally found on rural smallholdings with old commercial supplies).
All four are solid choices and your installer will fit any of them. Zappi (Myenergi, made in Stafford) is the go-to if you have solar panels — its eco modes divert spare solar into the car. Easee is compact, modular and Norwegian-built, popular for multi-charger setups. Ohme has the slickest integration with Octopus Intelligent Go for cheap overnight charging. Pod Point is the legacy UK brand — reliable, app-driven, widely supported. We can talk you through the trade-offs in the quote conversation.
Not with the household grant: it needs private off-street parking at your home. A separate on-street grant exists for households that get a permanent cross-pavement solution, highways consent and planning permission approved, and Cornwall Council runs its own cross-pavement channel scheme. Shared chargers in flat car parks and workplace charging are the other options. Ask installers about their experience of cross-pavement and on-street solutions.
Smart EV tariffs can drop your overnight charging cost to around 7p/kWh (at the time of writing — check current rates with your supplier). Octopus Intelligent Go works directly with Ohme, Zappi, Hypervolt and several others; Octopus Go is a simpler 5-hour cheap window. Your installer can recommend a charger that's pre-approved for the tariff you want — saves a lot of faff later.
Most modern Cornish homes will. Your installer will check the main fuse rating (typically 60A, 80A or 100A), the consumer unit, and the earthing arrangement. Load-balancing chargers like Zappi and Easee can shed power dynamically to avoid tripping the main fuse — brilliant for older properties. If your supply is undersized, we can quote for a DNO upgrade. National Grid Electricity Distribution (formerly Western Power) handles this in Cornwall — usually free for the upgrade itself, but expect a wait.
Check the government’s authorised installer list: the grant needs a quote from an OZEV-authorised installer, and only they can claim the grant payment. Also look for work to BS 7671:2018+A2:2022 Section 722 and the IET Code of Practice for EV Charging Equipment Installation, 5th Edition, plus NICEIC or NAPIT registration and insurance. If we introduce you to an installer, we check they’re on the list first.
Yes. Our guides cover home installs, holiday-let chargers (code-per-booking smart charging is increasingly the standard — guests get a unique unlock code for the duration of their stay), workplace installations under the Workplace Charging Scheme, and multi-bay commercial installs for hotels, restaurants and visitor attractions. Cornwall's tourism economy means holiday-let demand spikes hard in summer — a charger on your listing is increasingly a deal-breaker for EV-driving guests.