This is rather alarming news

Until you confirm it was the charge point that caught fire, and the reason for the fire, you have to trust whoever installed your charger to have done it properly...

A single fire is not a trend... and I don't see everyday reports of chargers causing fires.

The Daily Mail might like to use the report to spread their anti-EV mantra, but the rest of us would treat this as an isolated incident and await any investigation report results...
 
The most common electrical fault resulting in fire is going to be a loose connection causing arcing. A point in favour of using an AFDD.
 
And short circuits from failed components. An appliance is only as good as its weakest part (which hopefully is the fuse). :)
 
JimD said:
I wonder if they report all electrical fires started by home appliances.
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They did when the Beko tumble dryers caught fire. Oh, and knock off phone chargers from Ali Express.
 
Alb said:
The most common electrical fault resulting in fire is going to be a loose connection causing arcing. A point in favour of using an AFDD.
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Just had the inners of my box replaced under warranty. Car was charging 1 night then just stop.

Installer had to come out first to look at. Slight charring on one of the 'low voltage' wires.

Company came today and replaced all the circuit boards and wiring after the raspberrypi. Did say that the likely cause was a loose connection or two that caused arcing. Has been powered down for 2 weeks but there still was a smell of burning when he took the cover off.
 
JimD said:
I wonder if they report all electrical fires started by home appliances.
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This is a difficult subject, since their is a difference between an EV fire and a toaster catching the bread on fire.
Accident reports are the same. During the last 55 years Aer Lingus have not had a crash or an incident involving serious injury. However they get hundreds of accident claims most for laddered tights and broken fingernails
 
I don't see anything that looks like a wallbox charger in the photograph. I wonder if it was a granny charger and the socket overheated.

Oh and re electricians, they do have to certify their work and they are held responsible for any issues that come up through a bad installation, so they do a thorough job in my experience.
 
dgs99 said:
I guess this was due to incorrect installation, but may be someone might like to comment on how this can happen?

eastdevonnews.co.uk

East Devon: Electric car charging point blaze spreads to garage

Firefighters from East Devon on Wednesday (September 7) tackled a blaze in a garage in Colyton after an electric car charging point fire.
eastdevonnews.co.uk eastdevonnews.co.uk
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Not alarming at all, occasionally electrical faults occur and cause fires. The fact it was an EV charger is irrelevant really except to the anti-ev mobs that seem to frequent social media platforms.
 
You are lucky. My EO Mini Pro 1 charger stopped working coincidentally when software support from Enelex Juucenet was withdrawn in February. EDF who provided it referred me to EO who manufactured it who referred me to EV Domestics who eventually attended to “repair” it, declared it obsolete although they could not find any faults. Call out fee was £114, payable within 7 days. Can’t understand why they could not have told me over the phone that this charger was now obsolete. EDF initially washed hands of matter and are now reconsidering. EO have offered a new charger at a 23% discount. EV Domestics have offered to knock off the initial call out charge from a new installation.
After nearly four months I’m having to use granny charger. Am I the only one with a duff EO charger? Is it reasonable that these should fail irreparably after only four years?
Any thoughts?
 
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