I was watching what was going on overnight when I was sick and couldn't sleep. The slots were in constant flux. I did a running commentary on twitter and the Octopus bot stepped in asking me to DM. I did, but got no reply.
This was the eventual charging pattern.
Calibration charges are the only thing that will be impacted by this I think.
I reckon don't use a Smart charge if you can only get 6 hours anyway. Start at 10.30 and let the car have access to the home battery for the first hour, reducing the amount of peak-rate juice consumed. Then over to...
Only once did I forget to plug in, and plugged in in the morning. I didn't really need that much but I just asked the app to go on charging till 10 am, the time I had to leave. At that time you could do that, and I took the car almost to 100% for 7p.
Now though, the latest ready-by time the app...
Cross that bridge if it's encountered. If they make iOG too unattractive, we just switch. But as of now, you absolutely can switch it off, and if you don't want the car to take your solar and you don't want to switch off Smart Charging, just unplug the car.
It's not though. You only have to do a Smart charge once a month to fulfil the T&Cs, and they're not absolutely strict about that.
Come on, they can't force you to plug your car in when you don't want to! How would they even know you were at home? And they don't give you a switch to turn off...
Honestly, I'm just going to set the occasional Smart charging session for say 50% starting at 11.30 and ending at 5.30 to keep on board with the requirement to use it sometimes, and charge on the Zappi schedule the rest of the time.
I think they're going to find that a lot of people are going...
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