Home EV Charger Installation
Single-socket 7kW domestic install with OZEV £500 grant administered where eligible. BS 7671:2018+A2:2022 Section 722 compliant.
From £800 (£300 net of OZEV)Home, workplace, holiday-let or Tesla Wall Connector — we'll match you with a vetted OZEV-approved local installer covering TR11 and the surrounding villages. BS 7671 Section 722 compliant, all major brands fitted (Zappi, Easee, Ohme, Pod Point, Tesla, Wallbox). Standard 7kW home installs from £800 (£300 net of OZEV grant where eligible). Request a free quote below.
Falmouth (TR11) mixes a young, EV-curious university population (Falmouth + Exeter Penryn campuses), an established marine industry around the docks, and a thriving holiday-let market on the Helford River and Mawnan Smith side. EV charger demand here splits three ways: domestic 7kW for owner-occupiers and student-rental landlords, commercial 22kW for the marine industry, and holiday-let tethered units across Penryn, Mawnan Smith, Constantine, Mylor, Mabe Burnthouse and the Helford villages.
Falmouth's marine corrosion environment is closer to Newlyn than Truro — specify IP54 minimum for outdoor units and stainless or marine-grade fixings. Three-phase supply is widely available around the docks and Penryn industrial areas, useful for 22kW Workplace Charging Scheme installs. Helford-side estates with private driveways are a regular install location; cable runs to detached garages can be long. Typical lead time: 1-2 weeks for grant work, same-week for cash jobs. For HMO landlords, Project EV and Easee chargers offer multi-user RFID access — useful where a single charger serves several tenants on a shared driveway.
Falmouth is built on a hill, and many properties on the terraces above the harbour have no off-street parking or park some distance from the house. That's the main constraint here — the electrical work is usually simple; getting a charger to where the car actually sits is not.
With the rental and student market around Falmouth and Penryn, shared parking areas raise the question of who pays for the electricity. Units with individual authorisation and usage recording exist for exactly this, and are worth specifying rather than retro-fitting a solution later.
As a working harbour town, salt in the air affects external hardware. Siting a unit out of direct exposure where possible extends its life noticeably.
Finding a reliable OZEV-approved EV charger installer in Falmouth shouldn't be a headache. Here's how it works.
Fill in the quick quote form. Tell us your Falmouth postcode, the vehicle you drive (or plan to), and whether you're after a home, workplace or holiday-let install.
We connect you with a vetted OZEV-approved local installer covering Falmouth. They'll run a remote survey (10-15 minutes by photos) and confirm grant eligibility.
Most 7kW home installs take 3-5 hours. Your installer handles DNO notification, grant administration (where eligible) and BS 7671 Section 722 commissioning before you charge.
Home, workplace, holiday-let, smart or Tesla — we'll match you with a vetted OZEV-approved local installer covering Falmouth and the surrounding area.
Single-socket 7kW domestic install with OZEV £500 grant administered where eligible. BS 7671:2018+A2:2022 Section 722 compliant.
From £800 (£300 net of OZEV)Single-bay through to load-balanced multi-charger arrays. Workplace Charging Scheme grant £500/socket up to 40 sockets per applicant.
Bespoke quoteSmart chargers with code-per-booking so guests get a unique unlock code for the duration of their stay. Adds a real booking-converter signal for 2026 guests.
From £900Gen 3 7.4kW domestic (or 22kW three-phase where the supply allows). Note: excluded from the OZEV grant — verify eligibility before ordering.
From £450 charger + £400-£700 installZappi, Easee, Ohme, Pod Point, Hypervolt, Wallbox. OZEV-grant-compliant smart chargers meeting the UK Smart Charge Point Regulations 2021.
From £1,000 fitted£500/socket administered for eligible renters, flat owners and residential landlords. Scheme funded to 31 March 2027.
From £300 net of grantPrices vary with cable run, consumer-unit work, and supply type. Quotes given before any work starts.
Standard single-socket 7kW domestic install fitted. £300 net of OZEV grant where eligible.
Zappi, Easee, Ohme or Pod Point fitted. Solar diversion and Octopus Intelligent Go ready.
Gen 3 charger plus install. Excluded from OZEV grant — Tesla owners pay full price.
Where the MPAN supply allows three-phase. Workplace and high-turnover holiday lets — bespoke quote.
Not in Falmouth? We cover the whole of Cornwall — choose your nearest town.
The Workplace Charging Scheme pays £500 per socket (up to 40 sockets per business) towards staff and fleet charging — and the installer claims it for you. 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 most common questions about EV charger installation in Falmouth and the surrounding area.
A standard 7kW home install in Falmouth 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 gives a firm written quote after a quick survey.
The OZEV chargepoint grant — raised to £500 per socket on 1 April 2026 and funded to 31 March 2027 — is open to renters, flat owners and residential landlords. Owner-occupiers in standalone houses are no longer eligible (that scheme closed in 2022). Holiday-let landlords can claim under the landlord scheme. Workplaces use the separate Workplace Charging Scheme (£500/socket, up to 40 sockets per applicant). Your installer must be OZEV-authorised to claim on your behalf — every installer in our Falmouth network is.
Most straightforward 7kW home installs in Falmouth 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 homes in Falmouth, 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 (sometimes seen on older rural Cornish farms).
Most modern Cornish homes will. Your installer checks the main fuse rating (typically 60A, 80A or 100A), the consumer unit, and the earthing arrangement. Load-balancing chargers like Zappi and Easee shed power dynamically to avoid tripping the main fuse — useful for older granite cottages. If your supply is undersized, we can quote for a DNO upgrade; National Grid Electricity Distribution (formerly Western Power) handles this in Cornwall.
Yes — the OZEV grant for renters and flat owners (£500/socket as of 1 April 2026) is specifically aimed at this. Options include cross-pavement gullies (where Cornwall Council allows), shared chargers in flat car parks, or workplace charging. We can match you with installers in Falmouth experienced in cross-pavement and on-street solutions — these are increasingly common in Truro, Falmouth and Penzance.
All four are solid OZEV-grant-compliant choices. Zappi (Myenergi, made in Stafford) is the pick if you have solar — 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 (around 7p/kWh off-peak at time of writing). Pod Point is the legacy UK brand — reliable, app-driven, widely supported. Hypervolt and Wallbox are also fitted. The Tesla Wall Connector Gen 3 is excluded from the OZEV grant.
Yes. Every installer we match you with in Falmouth is OZEV-authorised (so they can claim the grant on your behalf), works to BS 7671:2018+A2:2022 Section 722, and follows the IET Code of Practice for EV Charging Equipment Installation, 5th Edition. They're insured and NICEIC or NAPIT registered. We do not refer to national call-centres that subcontract to unknown third parties.
We cover Falmouth and the surrounding villages across TR11, including Penryn, Mawnan Smith, Constantine, Mylor, Mabe Burnthouse, Budock Water and Helford. If you're not sure whether your address is in our patch, submit a postcode through the form and we'll confirm within minutes.
Yes — this comes up a lot with Falmouth's student-rental and HMO market. Chargers with multi-user RFID or app access (Easee, Project EV and similar) let each tenant authenticate and pay for their own charging from one shared unit. The installer will confirm the supply can carry it and set up the access system as part of commissioning.
Often yes, but the question becomes who pays for the electricity. Units with individual authorisation and usage recording exist for exactly this situation and are much easier to specify at the outset than to retro-fit once there's a dispute about the bill.
It's the main constraint in Falmouth. The electrical work is usually simple; getting the charger to where the car actually parks is the difficulty, particularly on the terraces above the harbour where parking may be some way from the house.