Glossary
EV charging pre-installation (preinstalación de recarga)
The conduits, reserved space in the meter room and power allowance a developer leaves in a garage so chargers can be fitted later. It includes no charger or cable: it only prepares the route.
What EV charging pre-installation is
The preinstalación de recarga is the infrastructure a developer leaves in a garage so each owner can later add a charging point without major work. ITC-BT-52 (section 3.2) requires new buildings to have it, and CTE HE 6 demands conduit to 100 % of parking spaces in residential buildings licensed from 16 December 2022.
What it includes and what it does not
What the developer normally leaves:
- Conduits or cable trays from the meter room to each space.
- Reserved space in the meter room.
- Power allowance in the building installation.
What is missing and the buyer pays for:
- The cable from your meter to the space.
- The board with protection (MCB, RCD and surge protection).
- The charger and the boletín.
A garage with pre-installation does not mean you have a charger. It is the most common confusion when collecting the keys to a new build.
What it costs to activate
With the conduit already in place, an individual point costs roughly 1,250 to 1,450 euros depending on distance, compared with 1,700 to 1,900 euros without pre-installation. A newly formed community can also choose a shared line with load management (scheme 1), so each neighbour does not run their own cable.
What to ask
Pre-installation details rarely appear in the public specifications of a development: ask the developer or the property administrator. See communal EV charging backbone, our new build section and the new build electrical snagging checklist for Seville, Spain.
Related services
Communal EV charging backbone
A communal EV charging pre-installation in your building's garage in Seville, Spain sorts out the wiring once and for all: one backbone line, one charging board and a load manager, so each neighbour can later connect their own charger paying only their share and their own electricity.
EV charger in a communal garage
An EV charger in a communal garage in Spain only requires you to notify the comunidad (the homeowners' association): no vote, no permission. We run the line from your meter to your parking space in Seville, install the charger with its protection devices and register the boletín.
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