In February 2021, electrician Volker Trute examined the fuse box and accepted the order.
The next sign of life from electrician Trute came in May by email: “I am trying to get the wallbox that was offered to this day, this unfortunately seems hopeless.” A date of delivery was probably only in the November possible. “Maybe,” he added. He offered me one alternative, faster deliverable wallbox on, I said yes.
Deadline for the wallbox invoice extended
Like many other applicants, I received one on July 1, 2021 Mail from KfW. Due to the delivery bottlenecks for wallboxes, the Submission deadline for the invoice extended by three months. Originally it was nine months, now twelve. In other words: Many wall boxes apparently had Delivery times of up to one year!
Wallbox conveyor bowl empty
The situation with wallbox funding
Since the end of October there have been no government grants for the purchase and installation of wallboxes for the time being. “Please do not submit any more applications – the funds are exhausted,” it says on the website of the federally owned KfW bank. For almost a year, the state granted a grant of 900 euros per wallbox. Important for everyone who has already submitted an application but has not yet received a wallbox: “Have you already received an application confirmation? Then your grant is reserved for you,” says KfW. That means: As soon as the charging station is set up and the invoice is available, there are 900 euros. The Federal Ministry of Transport has invested a total of 800 million euros in expanding private charging infrastructure. The program started in November 2020 with a budget of 200 million euros. The new federal government must now decide whether to continue the funding program.
In the garden, the underground cable should be laid at least 60 cm deep and secured with a warning tape.
my Installation date was scheduled for September 21 at 7:30 a.m. I dug that Cable duct in the garden, then Trute’s colleagues came along and misplaced a thumb-thick one Underground cables in the borders, bored in Hole in the house wall, wired everything to the Power distribution, still installed Circuit breaker. And after months of waiting for the wallbox, I finally had my car socket. Master Trute sent them invoice, they amounted to 1538.76 euros. 914 euros for the wallbox, the rest for cables, the residual current circuit breaker and “1 piece” wall breakthrough.
The wallbox can be switched on and off via the app. This protects against unauthorized use.
Side tip: You don’t have to take the original stand (600 euros). A couple of Obi boards do it too (15 euros).
