Hi Waverley,

Your new T03 should have a cable for tethered charging and a UK 3 pin granny charger

Personally, I've only ever charged via granny charger but never used the supplied T03 charger as I found the overall cable to be shorter than I need and the electronics block is about the middle of the length of cable

Due to this, I bought an evdance granny charger as the electronics block is much closer to the 3 pin plug and the overall length is around 10 meters

Evdance charger has a basic control to select different amps up to 13 - I think leapmotor goes to 10

Evdance also has a meter which displays charger running time and kwh delivered - there is a small amount of energy inefficiencies between energy delivered and energy plonked into the battery as stated by the car

My evdance charging cable goes out my window and straight into the car

 

The granny charger I received with my C10 in Australia charges at 1.4kW as reported by the app. Adds about 20-25% to the battery overnight.
The charger is labelled as 8 Amps, so at 240 Volts that is a maximum of ~1.9kW from the wall socket.

Hopefully it is not drawing the full 1.9kW because that would be a 0.5kW conversion loss. I think I have seen it deliver 1.6kW to the battery but not 100% sure of that.

I keep thinking about getting a 10 Amp granny charger as it is the method I use most of the time to charge the car.
Then I think about getting a 32 Amp wall socket installed so that I can have a closer to 7kW charge rate.
But the installation costs are much higher and the granny charger does the job 95% of the time.

If the granny charger ever needs some help to catch up the charging, then there is DC rapid charger a few kilometres down the road that gives the first 7kW for free each day. So I just work that in to my daily travels and add 7kw for free if required. There are also four Type 2 charging stations at the grocery store that are almost never in use. The Type 2 charging stations cost $0.22 per kWh. Which is nearly the same as the $0.20 per kWh residential off peak rate. So I can charge there at about 6.5kW while shopping to add a bit more charge.

 

I've charged my car with the granny charger that arrived with the car and it did deliver 3.4kW and managed to charge car overnight (normally it would be 7-8hrs for 20-80% or something like that).

 

3.4kW seems like a lot from a granny charger.
Sounds like Britain has quite high output power outlets. In Australia, my standard power outlets are rated at 2.4kW (10 Amps at 240 Volts) so the granny charger shouldn't exceed that limit. In practice it is quite a bit less than that at 1.4kW.
If I had a higher capacity 15Amp outlet (standard being 10Amp) installed and bought an aftermarket 15Amp rated granny charger then I may possibly be able to achieve 3.4kW. But it would have to be a very efficient charger as at 15Amp and 240Volts the maximum output of the outlet would be 3.6kW. With say 10% conversion loss, around 3.2kW delivered to the car would be more likely.

 

Had a go at public fast charge (osprey) easy but expensive. It was a parking space near restaurant so I saved a few quid on parking. Next I bought an EV mains socket as a precaution and home granny (shouldn’t call it that really) charged for 5 hours. Plug slightly warm but had to have front door ajar for cable and this house was chilly! Have got octopus to fit smart meter next month and will get them to install 7kw point. Around £1k but more convenient and eventually cheaper. (6 years I reckon). Enjoy the leap. We love ours.