With more people choosing to switch to an electric car, consumers are demanding efficient ways to charge their vehicles at home. Installing an EV wall charger, such as the BG Sync EV Wall Charger 2, now with integrated solar charging, from Luceco – is proving both a popular and money saving solution for consumers as well as a great upsell and customer lock-in opportunity for installers.
Opportunities for installers
With over 20,000 UK homes per month installing solar PV, an entirely new market is open to installers who can now offer a truly efficient, value-for-money EV charger where integrated solar charging is already included.
Charging vehicles with solar energy
Ingeniously, thanks to the intuitive smartphone app, homeowners can cut their home-based EV charging costs with the Sync EV Wall Charger 2. By utilising surplus solar energy from their existing solar panels – with no modifications to panels required – instead of having any surplus directed back to the grid, homeowners can potentially charge their electric vehicles for free with Sync EV.
In addition, with personalised settings such as scheduled charging and optimised cut-off points, allowing users to charge dynamically and maximise cheap rates of electricity, the Sync EV Wall Charger 2 delivers a faster home charge compared to plugging a charging cable directly into a 3-pin socket which gives a very slow charge at a fixed rate – both inconvenient and less cost effective.
Designed for life
Designed with sleek aesthetics, and no compromise on practicalities, the Sync EV Wall Charger 2 is available in two versions – tethered and untethered - to suit individual needs. The tethered option, which comes with an integral 7.5m fixed wraparound cable that is fitted with a very user-friendly charging gun for attaching to the vehicle, provides a neat, tidy and safe solution. And, since the charger uses personalised settings, your customers can rest-assured that they are completely in control of who uses their charger – no rogue charges are possible. The untethered version, ideal for those who already own cables, is completely unpluggable, providing flexibility when using commercial chargers away from home.
With a charging capacity of up to 7.4KW with a standard household single-phase electrical supply, and a 3-phase version available which can deliver up to 22KW and is ideal for commercial customers, the Sync EV Wall Charger 2 which is controlled via a smartphone, allows users to rent out their charger, for example to neighbours, providing additional income.
Coming in a range of eight interchangeable colours options - traffic white, signal grey, sandstone yellow, signal red, jet black, blue grey, deep blue and racing green, customers can co-ordinate their EV tech with their electric vehicle.
The EV Wall Charger 2 has a three-year warranty, is CE-approved and stringently tested to ensure complete confidence and peace of mind. It is available online from https://syncev.co.uk or from all good electrical wholesalers.
The Luceco Group, which also includes the Luceco Lighting, BG Electrical, and Masterplug brands has over seventy years of industry experience and is internationally recognised as one of the market leaders across all key electrical products.