Hi Forum,
I ordered a fairly full-spec I-Pace end early February and I'm promised delivery end of June. I got the impression I was the first customer in Cyprus ordering one.
My main concern is how to charge the car. In the end I may have to do the main charging from a standard house socket (around 3.7kW max, 240V and 13-16A).
My house has a supply of 240V / 40A max and I'm trying to see if that can be upgraded as a normal 32A home charger box would use almost 100% of my supply (unplug fridge, turn off lights....). Typically for Cyprus, I cannot get a straight answer from anyone at the moment. OK, there are some (2-3) public chargers in Limassol, not too far away so I'm not totally lost.
I've looked at putting in 3-phase (as I then get 400V and could use a dedicated phase for this) but that looks prohibitively expensive. Electrician told me he has to change all electrics in the whole house even though I don't need the 3-phase other than for the car. So it is likely going to stay with 1-phase. It would be nice if there was a "charger" box that would let me set the charging power continuously between 3-7kW depending on the rest of use in house - on the fly via an app of course. I haven't found that animal yet, the best I found was "Juicebox", a German thing that could use varying max current and change via app (waiting to get that confirmed).
I prefer the looks of the Andersen EV charger (UK made) but that can only change the charging current via phone call to Andersen and they access remotely. Not exactly on-the-fly.
Other minor worries - will any insurer even touch the car? A friend has an Ariel Atom sports car and he can only get 3rd party insurance. We'll see there. Looking forward to the delivery in any case.
/Carl
I ordered a fairly full-spec I-Pace end early February and I'm promised delivery end of June. I got the impression I was the first customer in Cyprus ordering one.
My main concern is how to charge the car. In the end I may have to do the main charging from a standard house socket (around 3.7kW max, 240V and 13-16A).
My house has a supply of 240V / 40A max and I'm trying to see if that can be upgraded as a normal 32A home charger box would use almost 100% of my supply (unplug fridge, turn off lights....). Typically for Cyprus, I cannot get a straight answer from anyone at the moment. OK, there are some (2-3) public chargers in Limassol, not too far away so I'm not totally lost.
I've looked at putting in 3-phase (as I then get 400V and could use a dedicated phase for this) but that looks prohibitively expensive. Electrician told me he has to change all electrics in the whole house even though I don't need the 3-phase other than for the car. So it is likely going to stay with 1-phase. It would be nice if there was a "charger" box that would let me set the charging power continuously between 3-7kW depending on the rest of use in house - on the fly via an app of course. I haven't found that animal yet, the best I found was "Juicebox", a German thing that could use varying max current and change via app (waiting to get that confirmed).
I prefer the looks of the Andersen EV charger (UK made) but that can only change the charging current via phone call to Andersen and they access remotely. Not exactly on-the-fly.
Other minor worries - will any insurer even touch the car? A friend has an Ariel Atom sports car and he can only get 3rd party insurance. We'll see there. Looking forward to the delivery in any case.
/Carl