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Sadly this goes against the idea of greener nights. I have found that in trying to use greener nights for a month I tended to discharge deeper waiting for the greener night which then meant I was close to or over a 6 hour session. I think Ill just go back to how I was before.

I guess there's a good case for wanting 18 hrs charging then as an Octopus supplied charger puts an unfair restriction on those purchasers. On a similar vein my Zappi is a 3 phase version, although we are not 3 phase, does that mean if I was on 3 phase I would get a potential 6 x 22kWh (car...

Our older Niro doesn't seem to be affected by the change, although it may just be hidden.

Our washing machine has an odd timer, but I am able to set it so that the early part of the cycle (the most energy intense) occurs towards the end of the off peak time and the whole program finishes around 6:30, so the damp clothes don't sit in the machine for long.

I didn't realise you could get IOG with a three pin charger.

Over the last month or so I have been trying greener nights, this resulted in some really odd schedules and strange charging patterns with many breaks and restarts. This seems to have confused my MG4 causing it to constantly reset maximum charge to 100%. In an effort to stop it going above 80% I...

Do you just set a schedule every night and plug in as and when? When you turn on smart charge for your compulsory charge do you have to delete the schedule first? Just thinking......

For me I wanted to see what the fuss was about, I wanted a quiet car, attracted by low running costs and using some of my solar excess. As for saving the planet, I think the planet will get on fine once the next mass extinction (humans) happens, so the best way to expedite that is to burn as...

True normally, but I have one day (26/10/25) still showing on the app without cost. That day used 53 kWh when I charged both cars on consecutive nights because I tried their 'Greener Nights' option although the bill did show them as off-peak.

Up to now I always have paid the 7p rate, it will be interesting to see this months bill.

Correct, it's just that I wasn't aware that it was limited to 6 hours. I recently did a calibration charge on the Niro which consumed 65kWh. I'd set it up as a smart charge and gave them a 14 slot to fit it into not realising that 20 odd kWh would be charged at full rate.

I've just had a clarification email from Octopus that states, among other things."If we need to schedule more than 6 hours to reach your target charge, only the first 6 hours will be at the discounted rate - extra hours will be charged at your boost rate"

As far as I'm aware the Zappi has 3 modes, Fast, eco and eco+. Fast is just max charge rate, eco is use up to 1.4 kW from the grid plus any solar excess, eco+ allows you to set a max from the grid to add to the solar excess to maintain 1.4kW, so if a cloud comes across and your solar excess...

I think ours uses around 150W when running according to the IHD.

When we moved here we seemed to get a lot of power cuts that lasted a couple of hours or so. Fortunately we already had a wood burner but I did buy a cartridge gas burner. Good insurance as we haven't had one since, of course now I can plug the boiler into the car if needed.

As per title, I too have a Zappi. Not sure there's an option to specify a vehicle. You now get a message at the bottom of the schedule (on the app) telling you the slots may change.

I think Harry Metcalfe that the Sustain petrol he uses cost about £4.50 a litre and that's 20% fossil fuel.

I think it's a known issue with IOG and smart charge. It doesn't really cause an issue as both batteries are similar size and I treat them similarly

We've just squeaked home with 3% in the Niro, so I asked for 99% by 10am. I think the Niro has a little more usable than my MG4. I purposely gave it a 14 hr slot to fit the charge in, but it scheduled from plug in (19:50) to 6am as a single slot. It's a shame you can't register multiple vehicles...

True but the Tesla was within budget, it just didn't appeal. I wanted a hatchback and the MY looked like a Logitech mouse from the 1990s.