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    When charging an electric vehicle at home, what safety precaution should you take with the charging cable?

    DVSA-style practice question · 2024/2025 Updates

    The answer options

    • Run the cable through a window
    • Use a standard household extension lead
    • Ensure the cable does not create a trip hazard on the pavementCorrect
    • Leave the cable connected overnight in all weather

    Why that is the answer

    When charging at home, you must ensure the charging cable does not trail across the pavement where it could trip pedestrians, especially those with visual impairments.

    How this comes up in the real test

    Questions from 2024/2025 updates appear throughout the 50-question multiple-choice section, and the wording changes between versions. Learn the rule rather than the sentence: the DVSA can ask the same point from the opposite direction, and a memorised answer falls over the moment the phrasing moves.

    The pass mark is 43 out of 50, so seven wrong answers is your entire margin. If a whole category is shaky, run the topic practice below until you are getting every question right for the right reason, then go back to full mocks under the clock.

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