Hive EV Home Charger - Charger only £431.10 @ Hivehome

I've got 2 potentially really stupid questions to ask.
1 do the charging cables "lock on" to charger and car so somebody can't just come along and unplug car or steal the cable?
And
Is it possible to forget you put car on charge overnight and drive off with cable still attached or would car (I know they vary) somehow let you know/warn you?
Ta. (edited)

.....Until Hive do another U-turn and abandon it like they have the Hive Cameras and Home electronics.
Hive cannot be trusted, they simply just on the bandwagon of what others are doing and abandon support for any existing kit.
Avoid

I still think petrol is cheaper then these long term no?

Can any electrician install this or has he got to have some sort of certification?

Don’t buy from Hive - not reliable. I had 2 hive View cameras that they discontinued support for but should have been working up to 2025 - both cameras went offline a few months ago and Hive had firmware bricked them remotely. Now just rubbish. Shows no commitment to support or customer respect.

Genuine question.
What happens if you move house? You need to pay installation again, but would you need to buy another charger or can you uninstall and reinstall?

It costs almost £800 to install a charger for an EV , no wonder they don't put that on the ads!

"A hassle-free installation?"

Apart from the disruption to your house caused by running a new cable the size of a hosepipe from your electrical consumer unit, which is unlikely to be on a convenient external wall!

360 for install do it your self

Just to give you a comparison, it cost me £1100 to buy and no install a Zappi charger at my house (it’s being fitted next week). Zappi supported charging from different sources (eg solar, renewable etc)
This isn’t a bad price, though there is a subscription charge that goes with it

Is this to charge ur csr?

I love how the EV pushers all quote the cheapest tariffs that a few people are on. You wont get that trying to change now

The best thing people can do to save the planet is to keep driving their current cars. It takes many years of driving an electric to balance out the carbon from making it!

I’ll stick to diesel

Get simple non smart Rolec 7kwh untethered charger for around £200 on ebay and electrician to fit it. Best buy for your buck imo. No need for them smart crappy things that can break anytime just bog standard simple reliable charger is what you need. If you need to charge within specific times you can set it in your car

360 quid to wire a cable in to a box???
You've got to be kidding me?
I bet your local electrician could do it for a tiny fraction of the price.

Anyone know what is a "fair" price is for a standard installation? Seems it can be anywhere between £200 - £800!

Also, does this charger have any kind of lock? Reading the spec it doesn't seem to have, so when you are away from home, someone could potentially just go and plug their car in for a free charge! (edited)

So basically 13A extension plug

I’m happy with this, bought for £479 and paid a good electrician £200 to install incl certs. Syncs with the rest of your Hive app if you have one and can use it to get alerts when it starts being used and to start/stop it

Bought my EV then found out that as a semi detached my leccy supply is looped from next door (apparently very common) and i would need my garden dug up and a dedicated supply put in for one of these. Which bemuses me as I have a 3 pin extra long charger that came with the car that I can plug in to domestic plug. At moment the charging is still free in my council area but that will change soon. So I’m afraid it’s back to petrol for me. If anyone had told me about the ‘looped supply’ issue I could have fixed it before I spent thousands on my new driveway which I am not now paying to dig up and re-lay. Feel like I was duped. When I spoke to my dealer they told me they were completely unaware that this was an issue.

I have an EO mini pro 2 (unteathered version) as it's tiny and inconspicuous (plus does all the smart stuff and supports solar etc).

Can get a good price on them from some places right now by the looks of it hdmsolar.co.uk/pro…217

These need pen protection as not built in. So add an extra £80 to £100 to the cost as you MUST have it. Lots of other chargers have it built in so bear this in mind. 

Dumb question but how much does it usually cost - just on the look out for a charger and trying to assess how good a deal/price this is? Thanks a lot.

It doesn't make any sense to me that the government are going to penalise people for trying to save the environment with EVs by making them pay road tax from April 2025. What's the story with this, was this in the pipeline all along, or is it a U-turn by the government?

Does it come with an extension lead for flat dwellers?

Your neighbours will love this

Good pricing even with the installation, we chose the wallbox Pulsar plus from Amazon for £412, then got Wallbox to install for a shade over £400, so around the same price as this. Nice find op, 🔥

Ridiculous price. Should be half that.

If you are on octopus it's best to go with ones that are compatible with their EV tarrifs, it just makes things easier.

Waiting for government to start the load shedding in this country.

The modern society and its media pressurise us to live in this moment. Instant gratification is to be expected. You have the right to enjoy the now, with no consideration of having to pay for it. You must communicate now. You need high speed transport. 15 minutes saved on a 200 mile journey is critical. Faster, faster. Only the slow are losers. Grab what is rightfully yours, and if it belonged elsewhere then they obviously didn't deserve it.
Yet we are being dictated to that we must protect a planet from circumstances that it has previously survived, so that in 1000 years time, humans that we will have so diluted a connection with that they would, were we to be alive, be of no relevance to us, will not face issues.
Either we should have a slow and reliable pace, or live now and die in a blaze of glory. Until a constant message is available there can never be a common ground.

Gas engineer fitting electrical equipment :/

Some leases don't permit any equipment attached to the visible walls, although satellite dishes seem to be unfortunately exempt locally.

I love the pro & con arguments, so original. The real facts are that we are all destroying the planet, our whole way of life, technology, creature comforts, housing, roads, jobs. Even if many of us could live a much more eco balanced life the sheer number of people alive equates to a unsustainable drain on the planet. So do what you want and let the future generations deal with the aftermath. I know I am.