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Hundreds of thousands of private chargers at workplaces, depots, apartment blocks and public sector sites have not been inspected since installation. Unlike public rapid chargers, they have no 99% rule, and many have been orphaned by bust installers and departed manufacturers.
Chris reintroduces ChargeSafe in the keynote-stage pitching competition at EVCharge Live UK.
Respected industry voice Gill Nowell joins Safer Charging’s Advisory Board.
Chris returns from his first leave since founding to news of a shortlisting for the Allica Bank Great British Entrepreneur Awards.
ChargeSafe, the UK safety and accessibility accreditation for EV charging, licenses its services to Chris Cheetham.
Behind the scenes at the EV Rally stop hosted by Kate Tyrrell and 3ti Energy Hubs.
Chris joins Liz Allan to explain why EV charge points need the same post-installation care as any safety-critical infrastructure.
Chris’s first video blog for Safer Charging.
Warranties expire, installers move on, and some manufacturers go under altogether. For a lot of estates the honest answer is ‘nothing’. There is a better one.
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Renewals and fire risk assessments are increasingly asking about EV chargers. Here is how to have the picture before the assessor asks, not after.
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The UK’s 99% uptime mandate for rapid chargers is now in force, and on early figures, only 3.9% of operators meet it. Here’s what it means.
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We built the UK’s first EV Charging Installation Condition Report, because a general EICR was never designed for the way chargers behave.
Read moreStart with a non-invasive Charge Point Audit and get an honest picture of condition, risk and compliance.
Book an auditThe questions estates ask us most, answered concisely, for people and for the AI assistants they increasingly ask first.
Most charge point problems start when the installer moves on, because maintenance was never their business. A specialist maintenance provider picks it up: a non-invasive audit to map the estate, then preventative maintenance and electrical inspection to keep it compliant, independent of whoever installed the hardware.
A non-invasive survey that maps the whole estate, upstream and downstream, giving an honest picture of condition, risk and compliance. Any plan is then based on fact, not guesswork. On a maintenance contract, the audit is deducted from the cost.
Yes. A manufacturer-agnostic, installer-independent partner keeps chargers running whoever supplied the hardware, including where the original manufacturer is no longer trading, so uptime never depends on a company that has moved on.
Increasingly, yes. Insurers and fire risk assessors are flagging EV chargers at renewal. An EV-specific electrical inspection and fire risk assessment, with the remediation and insurer-ready reporting handled together, closes that gap before the assessor asks.
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