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Arghhhhhh!!!!

OZEV!!!!! Arghhhhhh!!!!

A RIDICULOUS amount of paperwork and bureaucracy involved with claiming the ÂŁ350 for fitting an EVCP!!! Arghhhh!!!!

I am not going to do any more.... ever!

I shall get to the end of this one and never do another one! Two hours spent completing just ONE of the MANY forms, whilst trying to get all the miniscule details from the customer. During which time, 2 four month old kittens were continuously jumping on my laptop keyboard, breaking bowls and climbing up the curtains!!! Jeez, what a Fxxxing day.

I am now drinking beer.

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Arghhhhhh!!!!

OZEV!!!!! Arghhhhhh!!!!

A RIDICULOUS amount of paperwork and bureaucracy involved with claiming the ÂŁ350 for fitting an EVCP!!! Arghhhh!!!!

I am not going to do any more.... ever!

I shall get to the end of this one and never do another one! Two hours spent completing just ONE of the MANY forms, whilst trying to get all the miniscule details from the customer. During which time, 2 four month old kittens were continuously jumping on my laptop keyboard, breaking bowls and climbing up the curtains!!! Jeez, what a Fxxxing day.

I am now drinking beer.

You havent had OZEV reject it for a missing signature or date yet! then you can get annoyed...

The answer is EV Comply!

I was abit sceptical to begin with but it speeds things up. completing forms, taking photos, evidence are all done in 1 app.

It does it all via digital forms. yes you pay ÂŁ20 per job for using the portal but as i typically do around 10-15 a month it simplifies the workload. not all these are ozev funded but for those that are the fee is worth it for the time it saves me. I reckon each ÂŁ20 spent saves around an hour per job/grant claim.

I have had to manually scan and upload 20 clams before now. foolishly left it until end of month to process it rather than do it as i go. after each job, never again.

PS @HappyHippyDad since you are up the road from Zummerset - if you get any ev enquiries send them my way! especially if you are leaving the OZEV merry go round.
 
I should add that less people doing them under the grant then the better for myself. As i have seen a few people fit them locally then stop as they dont like waiting for the money from ozev and the cash flow cripples them. I am currently owed just over 10k by OZEV! A lot of smaller firms cant manage it. Very fortunate in that i have the finances to focus on the ev game.
 
Ha! My email to them Wednesday this week!

Lifes too short to be effectively bankrolling their charge point scheme for them
Too much other work going on at the moment, I’ll just wait until the grant ends I think and pick it up from there

I was so pi#ÂŁ&d off with them I put OLEV instead of OZEV
 

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I still haven’t fitted an EV charger, I completed the course last year and probably get 1 enquiry a week. The local firms near me have all stopped installing under the OZEV scheme for exactly the same reasons.

Even spent the ÂŁ19 to download the IET digital risk assessment PDF
 

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