EV charge points
myenergi, fitted
by electricians.
Zappi charge points — solar-integrated, 7kW and 22kW.
Published guide price
From £1,100+VAT
The myenergi Zappi is an EV charge point designed to work with a solar array. Where you have panels, it can prioritise your own generated electricity over grid import when charging the car.
Coutts Electrical publish guide prices for both the 7kW and 22kW Zappi, available tethered or untethered in black or white, with solar integration listed as standard on both.
One of their customers describes exactly this combination in a public Google review — a MyEnergi battery and car charger installed alongside ten solar panels.
“Installation of 10 solar panels, a MyEnergi battery and car charger. Max and the team were well organised, excellent communicators and methodical with their work.. the work was completed on time and everything was tidy when they left.”
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Charging on the surplus instead of exporting it
An array makes most of its power in the middle of the day, which for most households is exactly when nothing is switched on. Nobody is home, so the surplus leaves the property and goes onto the network for whatever export rate you happen to be on.
A car on the drive is the biggest single load that could take it. Rather than switching on at full rate and staying there, the charge point reads what the property is drawing in or sending out — and moves the charge rate to follow the surplus as cloud comes and goes.
There is a floor to this. A car will not accept an arbitrarily small trickle, so on a dull winter afternoon there may not be enough spare generation to run the charge on solar alone.
How the unit behaves then is a choice made at set-up, not a fault. You can hold out for surplus only and charge slowly, or let the supply cover the gap and take whatever the sun contributes on top.
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Which lead, and how fast it charges
The lead is a daily-habit decision more than a technical one. Tethered means it is permanently fixed to the unit and coiled on it, so you park, unhook and plug in with nothing to carry. In exchange the lead lives outdoors, and the connector is fixed for the life of the charger.
Untethered means a socket and nothing else. You use the car's own cable, so the wall stays tidy and a future car with a different connector needs a new lead rather than a new charge point. You handle that cable at both ends of every charge.
The rating is a question about the building's supply first, and about the car after that.
- 017kW: the practical ceiling for a charge point on the single-phase supply a normal domestic property has
- 0222kW: needs three phases coming into the building, so it is usually commercial premises or a property already on three-phase
- 03The car decides too: if its on-board charger tops out below the unit's rating, a bigger unit will not charge it faster
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What fitting one actually involves
A charge point is not a socket. It is a dedicated circuit that will pull its full rated current for hours at a stretch, so we start at the consumer unit and the incoming supply rather than at the patch of wall where the unit is going.
If the unit is going to follow your generation, we fit a current clamp on the incoming supply at the meter, so the charger can see whether the property is drawing in or sending out. That clamp needs a link back to the unit, wired or wireless.
Outdoors, the earthing arrangement is settled before anything is energised — either an earth electrode of its own, or protection inside the charge point that disconnects it if the incoming earth reference is lost. The circuit is tested and certified like any other new circuit, and the readings go on the certificate.
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What the job depends on
Two properties can order the same unit and end up with two different jobs. What makes the difference is the building rather than the charger:
- 01Where the car actually parks, and which side its charging port is on
- 02Where the meter and incoming supply sit, and how far that is from the parking space
- 03Whether the existing consumer unit has the room and the protection for another circuit
- 04The cable route, so nothing ends up run across the front of the house
- 05Whether an array is already on the roof, or is going on later
05 The evidence
What actually
backs this up.
No manufacturer spec is reproduced here and no partnership is claimed. These are the things Coutts Electrical themselves publish, or that a named customer said in public.
- 01
Two Zappi units carry published Coutts Electrical guide prices
7kW from £1,100 + VAT, 22kW from £1,450 + VAT — couttselectrical.co.uk/electric-vehicle-charging - 02
Solar integration listed as standard on both units
the same guide-pricing table - 03
Named in a real customer review
David Birkinshaw, 11 September 2023 — "a MyEnergi battery and car charger" - 04
Listed in the brands Coutts Electrical work with
couttselectrical.co.uk/solar-pv brand wall
06 Published prices
Three units
with guide prices.
Coutts Electrical publish these figures themselves, for myenergi units specifically. The VAT footnote is part of the claim and travels with them.
| Charge point | Options | Guide price |
|---|---|---|
| 7kW myenergi Zappi | Black or White – Tethered or Untethered · Solar Integration | From £1,100 + VAT* |
| 22kW myenergi Zappi | Black or White – Tethered or Untethered · Solar Integration | From £1,450 + VAT* |
| myenergi Glo 7kW | Tethered · Solar Integration | From £1,100 + VAT* |
*All prices are subject to VAT. VAT charges may vary depending on the job to be undertaken. The exact VAT applicable to your work will be confirmed on our written quotation.
07 On site
Work by the same
electricians.
Coutts Electrical's published gallery carries no photograph of this product category, so these are their other completed installations.
Photographs are Coutts Electrical's own, of their own completed work. Captions name the system type rather than a location, because the images are not tied to a named customer or town.
08 Questions
About
myenergi.
The ones people actually ask at survey. Anything specific to your property is answered on the visit.
How do I know if my property is suitable for electric vehicle charging installation?
Most houses are suitable, some may require a minor fuse upgrade by the local network operator but get in contact with us and we can advise you if this is required.
Can I have one fitted before the solar panels go on?
Yes. The solar-matching side has nothing to follow until an array is generating; until then the unit charges from the supply like any other charge point.
09 Also in this category
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