The neighbour and the EV charger

This but without the sorry

You just know if it stopped working the neighbour would have nooooo idea what could possibly have happened except that it definitely wasn’t their fault

Has it got a lock on it?

Why can’t anyone on MN say no straight off?! She’s a CF. I would secure your driveway if u can. Keep her from just popping over when it suits. So what if she’s ballsy say no. Electric isnt that cheap!!

yes, put either a laughing or shocked face emoji on her message then ignore it.

The bloody nerve of her!!

Surely Earl Grey is more fitting?

@Wigglytails we have solar panels and an EV charger but have had economy 7 electricity for at least 30 years!

God, no! We have 2 double speed Tesla chargers because DH has a Tesla and I have a plug in hybrid and absolutely no to any of my neighbors thinking it's a free for all charge station. Friends/family/guests? They're all theirs.

I think I would do as you said and send a link to who installed it for you and leave it there.
We had friends use ours when they first got their electric car and were waiting for the charger to be installed. They paid us to use it but it soon became annoying at how frequently they wanted to use it and would get a bit moany when we would say no and explain that we needed it.

We have the charger locked when not using it.

Give her the details of your installer and tell her when she goes ahead, you won’t mind the noise as it doesn’t take long, is no real inconvenience and is very much worth it to have your own charger you can use anytime. In the meantime time she can carry on using the public charger.

YANBU in the least. Stand firm and don’t let her to use it at all.

Surely by being able to use the cheaper electricity tariff (incidentally never available to non-EV users) you have agreed to only charge your own car and not arbitrage by gifting or selling on the lower tariff to in this case your neighbour.

easy to tell them you actually can’t allow them to use your lower price electricity & they would need to get their own as you could be in breach of your contract: 😊

Can you not switch it off? Does that mean anyone can roll up to yours and get a fill?

Most domestic chargers will charge at 7kw. So every hour you charge you are spending 52.5p so if you charge for six hours you are spending £3.15.

My car so shows that in February we charged 486kwh and it cost £33.10. We did 419 miles

i agree though you can get cheaper electricity fr other things. I charge my battery and heat our water on the overnight rate so can effectively offset that saving.

Absolutely not.

For heavens sake, never mind all these convoluted reasons. OP just needs to say no.

Complete CF.
Then you will have other "stuck" neighbours asking and it will be nothing but hassle.
Do not start on this road.
You will bitterly regret it.

It really pissed off my friend when her husband said sure and cars had to be moved.
Her neighbour actually got snippy waiting for her car to be moved one day, when my friend was busy WFH, and my friend snapped and said no more.

She was like an antichrist with her husband for putting her in that position.

The EV has saved her an absolute forture over the past few years.
She got a great deal several years ago with a trade in plus the charger fitted with a great rate.
What with her solar panels, free electricity, endless hot water, she is unbearable to listen to🤣

Just message back:

“Hi Cheeky Fucker, here are the details of who installed ours. Really recommend them”.

My DH has just given me his opinions on electric cars and to put it politely he doesn’t see them as the future. DH is however a petrol head who bought a Golf R. My opinion now. As far as your neighbour is concerned they are definitely a cheeky besom and I would be telling them no and who installed yours as if it’s that important to them they need to pay for the solution themselves.

I’m with Octopus on their intelligent octopus tariff. As well as 7.5p/kWh for six hours overnight, whenever they charge the car outside that time I get that rate for all electric usage.

By being pretty savvy with it, if I’ve got a busy day where I’m going to have the oven for for baking or a roast as well as running the other appliances and heating the hot tub, it’s actually meant the overall bill hasn’t changed!

Hi Claire, we used Octopus to fit the charger, and it works out at £30 a month in energy costs. Would highly recommend. Don’t think using a neighbour’s charger will be sustainable, you’ll deffo need your own. Was super easy to install and only cost £1,200.

My brother is getting one and is considering letting a neighbour use it too. I think it’s fraught with problems and inconveniences.

He’s talked about solicitors letters outlining the agreement etc.

Not sure they measure how much they’ve put into the car for starters. Ours doesn’t. For some electricity prices vary across the day.

But saying no may be a problem - if you want a half decent relationship afterwards.

So you could say something like….. “it’s tied to my phone and only me and my partners phone can operate it, it can only talk to two phones not 3.” (Many, if not all, new ones are blue tooth operated) Or “our power only comes on at night, 12am until 5am, we just plug it in ready”

No way!
This reminded me of a friends daughter ( adult mum of two) who called my DH to ask if her son could use our DCs Xbox account so she didn’t have to get one.

😂

Just send her that.