EV charge points
Tesla, fitted
by electricians.
Wall Connector — the tethered home charge point.
Published review
5stars
“We had a Tesla wall charger installed at our home by Coutts Electrical. Max and Alex were professional and efficient from initial contact through to the final installation.”
Tesla’s home charge point — the Wall Connector — is the unit Tesla supply for charging at home. Coutts Electrical have fitted one: a customer describes exactly that in a public review, and Coutts Electrical publish the review on their own site.
It is worth being straight about what that evidences and what it does not. It evidences a charge point installed and a customer happy with the work. It is not a partner badge, and this page does not claim one.
One practical point before anything else: the guide prices Coutts Electrical publish cover the myenergi Zappi range, Hypervolt, Sigenergy and Andersen. Tesla is not on that list, so a Tesla unit is quoted for your property rather than read off a table.
“We had a Tesla wall charger installed at our home by Coutts Electrical. Max and Alex were professional and efficient from initial contact through to the final installation. An absolute pleasure to deal with and would happily recommend them.”
01 Tesla
A charge point sold by a car manufacturer
Most charge points are made by companies that make only charge points. This one is made by a company that makes cars, and that difference shows up in what the product is trying to be rather than in what comes out of the cable.
A manufacturer’s own unit tends to be tidy about the things that touch the driver — the account is the account you already have, the unit appears where the car appears, and there is one place to look when something needs checking. What it does not do is charge the car faster than another unit of the same rating would. Charging speed is set by the supply into the building, the rating of the unit and the car’s own on-board charger, and no badge changes any of the three.
The connector is not the differentiator either. Type 2 is the standard plug on new cars sold in the UK and on the charge points fitted to houses here, which is why a charge point of one make will physically connect to a car of another. Where makes differ is in the software around the charge, not in whether the plug fits.
02 Tesla
Tethered, and what that settles for you
Tesla supply the Wall Connector with its lead attached. That is a decision made for you, and it is worth understanding as a daily-habit trade rather than a specification.
What you gain is that there is never a cable to fetch. You park, take the lead off the unit and plug in, and nothing lives in the boot. On a driveway used every day by the same car that is the arrangement most people end up preferring.
What you give up is flexibility later. The lead is outdoors permanently, in whatever weather the wall gets, and the connector on the end of it is fixed for the life of the unit. If the parking arrangement changes — a second car on the other side, a different connector on a future vehicle — a tethered unit has fewer answers than a socket does.
Neither is the right choice in the abstract. What settles it is where the car actually stops and whether you expect that to stay true.
03 Tesla
If the car in the drive is not a Tesla
This comes up often enough to be worth putting plainly: a Tesla charge point and a non-Tesla car is a normal combination, not a mismatch, because of the shared Type 2 connector. It is still worth confirming a few things before you order rather than after the unit is on the wall, and none of these are awkward questions to ask us:
- 01Whether the generation of unit being quoted supports the car you actually own, and where that is stated by the manufacturer rather than by an installer
- 02How charging is started and stopped for a car that is not in the manufacturer’s own app — and whether anyone needs to touch a phone at all
- 03Whether scheduling to a cheap overnight rate happens in the charge point, in the car, or in your energy supplier’s app, because all three are possible and only one of them needs to be the one you use
- 04Whether the unit can be told to follow surplus generation from an array, if you have panels or plan to — this is the question that most often separates charge points, and it deserves a straight answer for the specific model quoted
- 05What happens to any of the above if you change car
04 Tesla
What we are actually installing
Whatever brand goes on the wall, the job underneath it is the same piece of electrical work, and it is most of what you are paying for. A charge point draws close to its full rated current for hours at a time, which is a demand almost nothing else in a house makes, so the design starts at the incoming supply and works outwards rather than starting at the wall.
At survey we are establishing what the supply and the existing board can carry alongside everything already connected, and whether the network operator needs to be notified. We are settling the earthing arrangement, which outdoors is either an electrode of its own or protection built into the unit that disconnects it if the incoming earth reference is lost. And we are agreeing the route the cable takes, because that is the part you will look at every day.
The route is worth spending time on at the survey rather than on the morning of the install. A run that is quick to install and a run that is invisible are rarely the same run, and the difference is decided by where the meter sits relative to where the car parks. Once the circuit is in, it is tested and certified like any other new circuit and the readings go on the certificate — that document is the thing worth keeping.
05 Tesla
How the decision is actually made
The order matters. Where the car parks and how the property is supplied come first, because between them they rule things in and out before any brand is considered. What you want the charge to follow — a cheap overnight rate, your own generation, or nothing in particular — comes next, and that is the question that genuinely separates one unit from another.
The badge comes last, and by then it is usually a short list rather than an open field. That is the opposite of how these are normally sold, and it is why this page carries no price and no specification table. Both would be inventing certainty about a property nobody has visited.
If a Tesla unit is what you want, say so and we will quote it. If you want to know what else would suit the same drive, ask that too — the guide prices Coutts Electrical publish for the other units are on the EV charging page, and there is no penalty for changing your mind at survey.
06 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
Named in a customer review of a job Coutts Electrical completed
Byron A., 28 May 2024 — “We had a Tesla wall charger installed at our home by Coutts Electrical” - 02
Published by Coutts Electrical in their own homepage review schema
couttselectrical.co.uk — the same review carried in the site’s own structured data - 03
The engineers named in it are Coutts Electrical’s own
the review names Max and Alex, who appear throughout the rest of the review set - 04
EV charge point installation is a published Coutts Electrical service
couttselectrical.co.uk/electric-vehicle-charging
07 Published prices
No published price
for this one.
Coutts Electrical publish guide prices for the charge points listed on their EV page. Tesla is not among them, so any figure printed here would be one we invented.
What Coutts Electrical do publish is the guide pricing for the 6 units on their EV charging page. Those figures are theirs, and they are a fair guide to what the installation costs on a straightforward property — the unit is rarely the variable.
What moves the number on any charge point, this one included, is the supply into the building, whether the existing board has room and protection for another circuit, and how far the cable has to travel to reach where the car parks. None of the three can be read off a web page.
See the published EV guide prices08 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.
09 Questions
About
Tesla.
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.
Do I have to own a Tesla to have one fitted?
No. Type 2 is the standard connector on charge points and new cars in the UK, so the unit will physically connect to other makes. What is worth confirming before ordering is how charging is started and scheduled for a car that is not in the manufacturer’s own app, and whether the specific generation of unit being quoted supports your vehicle. Ask us and we will confirm it against the manufacturer’s own documentation rather than from memory.
Is there a guide price for a Tesla charge point on this site?
No, and we would rather say so than invent one. The published Coutts Electrical guide prices cover the myenergi Zappi range, Hypervolt, Sigenergy and Andersen. A Tesla unit is quoted for your property — the variable is almost always the supply, the board and the cable route rather than the unit itself.
Will it charge the car from my solar panels?
That depends on the unit rather than on the installation, and it is the single question worth pinning down before you commit. Some charge points are built to follow the surplus an array is exporting and vary the charge rate to match it; others charge at a set rate and leave the household to sort out the rest. Tell us at survey whether you have an array or expect to fit one, and we will confirm what the model you are considering actually does.
10 Also in this category
Other names
on the wall.
Listed, not evidenced — which is why they do not have pages of their own.
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