Which at home charger?

[Exdro]

I would say the big question is do you have (or are you planning to get) solar and/or batteries? If so you'll want a charger that works well with those. You don't want the car to be draining out your home battery or anything weird like that.

I went for the Givenergy EV charger as we already had givenergy solar inverter and battery so it all works from one app and no conflicts between anything.

It is probably not the cheapest, and not yet on Octopus Intelligent Go, but they are working on it.

Hypervolt and zappi are two others that offer solar divert.

If you don't/won't/can't have solar then you can choose based on price/aesthetics/app etc. Ohme seems popular and looks smart.

I’ve now got Zappi with solar divert. Unfortunately there’s been no solar to divert since I had it fitted Roll on brighter weather.

 

[Bam Bam]

I’ve now got Zappi with solar divert. Unfortunately there’s been no solar to divert since I had it fitted Roll on brighter weather.

We had two good (for February) days this week.

With the present tariffs you want to be exporting anyway. 15p export for us and 8.5p overnight import.

That difference may be reversed in the future, at which point having the solar divert option will again be vital!

 

[markglawrence]

I am surprised.
I change the setting in the car (a Trophy in my case).
This can be either 80% or 100%.
Then Octopus honours this as the maximum and stops.

It is probably the worst bit of user interface I have ever seen as it looks like a description rather than a piece of UI, is very small and offers no feedback that you have actually made a change.
Let me know if you need a picture.

Many thanks Rich, I’ll try that. A shot of the setting would be great and confirm I’m on the right page!

 

[hmadsen]

We had two good (for February) days this week.

With the present tariffs you want to be exporting anyway. 15p export for us and 8.5p overnight import.

That difference may be reversed in the future, at which point having the solar divert option will again be vital!

Is the weather really that bad?

Here we have made 224 kWh in February to date. Have even been able to put a bit of that into the EVs although not much as we are a house with 5 people, 2 of which are boys with gaming computers

Here it is always beneficial to use the electricity ourselves as every kWh bought has a fixed state tax of £0.14 and this is not lower at night.

So if electricity cost £0.10 i pay £0.24 for a kWh , but if i use it myself i only pay the £0.10 and if if sell it i only get maybe £0.09.