Thanks. Getting the info is not the problem. It's the potential financial burden of having to rectify any shortcomings!By law, your DNO has to provide information regarding your supply (fuse rating and earthing arrangement).
If they don't have records, they will have to survey the property and provide the required information FOR FREE.
Your next step will be to engage an electrician to tabulate a LOAD LIST for your property, allowing for diversity on general purpose sockets and including the fixed heavy consumers of electricity like electric showers, electric ovens, pottery kilns etc
One you have the DNOs fuse rating and your Electricians load list, report back to the forum for suggestions on how to fit in the EV charger.
In that case the (2kW) granny charger plus a bit of public charging is going to be the sensible option. A bit less convenient but it takes a long time to payback investments like that with savings from not using a rapid very often.My electrician advises that the cost for increasing load capacity into the property could be as much as £5k which would totally destroy my financials on the vehicle purchase.
Simply not practical as it's a work vehicle and not enough time for turn-arounds on that basis. Just to be clear, we're not in that position necessarily, but it's a scary thought that it's possibleIn that case the (2kW) granny charger plus a bit of public charging is going to be the sensible option. A bit less convenient but it takes a long time to payback investments like that with savings from not using a rapid very often.
Shouldn't they foot the bill then?Simply not practical as it's a work vehicle
You're on dodgy ground as you're required to notify them. I'd look at going for a charge point like a Zappi with load limiting, to prevent your demand going above your fuse limit - it's hard to see how they can object to that.And what happens if you install one without telling them?