Octopus Agile

Somebody

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81937250#Comment_81937250

I'm intrigued. Do you park you car in the garage? If it's on the drive, where is your Kettle, airfryer, microwave etc relative to the car's location? Is there a long lead from the car to your kitchen when V2L is in use?

NedS

What is the current status of V2H (and ultimately V2G). Is this established technology yet or still something waiting to happen?

We are thinking about replacing our car, and still no clue if we should get ICE or EV. V2H/V2G would be a major plus factor for me, but I wouldn't want to buy into immature technology a year or two too early before it's a stable reality.

We were at the KIA showroom recently, and were admiring their EV5 (which has a V2L 3-pin plug in the boot) - the salesman was telling us it's also V2H/V2G, but when I checked online it's only listed as V2L so I have no clue what or who to believe (only the larger EV9 top of the range model was listed as V2H/V2G)

QrizB

What is the current status of V2H (and ultimately V2G). Is this established technology yet or still something waiting to happen?

As I understand it, the standards have been ratified fairly recently (in the last couple of years), so we're now waiting for manufacturers to build compatible vehicles, customers to install compatible wall boxes and suppliers offer compatible tariffs.

I suspect (but can't be sure) that Octopus's pilot scheme with BYD uses the new standards.

silverwhistle

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It's a bit of a jury rig, but on the drive with an extension lead through the letter box then tucked behind the hall radiator to the kitchen .. :-) When the price is 40p plus it's a big arbitrage opportunity and I'd rather spend the money on a better bottle of wine for very little effort! ;-) My GF is used to it, rolls her eyes a bit and avoids tripping over the cable! She enjoys the wine though..

I'm on my own so don't have to worry about appearances and I'm a very disorganised lass anyway, and a home battery would be difficult to install and justify when I've got 50kWh on the drive.

tfhnota

A pity electric motorcycles are too expensive and/or don't have enough kwh, otherwise I would replace my IC bike with one and park it in the house and do the same (depending where you live it is sometimes necessary to park the IC moto in the house to avoid theft, anyway).

dharm999

Some very cheap rates tomorrow, so plenty of washing and tumble drying to get through as well as baking, to take advantage. EV is pretty much fully charged so can’t take much advantage there.

EssexHebridean

Agreed - I’ve a load of washing sitting in the machine waiting for the drop, and the oven will be on a fair bit today and tomorrow I think with batch cooking too! Hooefully we’ll get two batches of lunchtime rolls made over the weekend which will then see us through for a couple of weeks. Tomorrow and into Monday also looking decent. It’s the periods like this which reward us for keeping the faith with Agile isn’t it!

dharm999

Another cheap day tomorrow, more washing I think, and got some more batch baking to do.

danco

I'm not sure if this is a meter problem, or an issue with the new Home Mini that I have just installed. I had an old Home Mini that was faulty and I have just replaced it. I can't recall if the issue was there with the old one.

But anyway the app on my phone is an hour wrong in the times shown on the display of live usage. As I'm on Agile it needs to be correct.

I know there has been a time change today, but the error is in the wrong direction, and anyway there should not be an error. Currently, the time is 12.14, as shown on my phone and computer (with my microwave nd oven whose times have to be set manually still showing 11.14) but the live display, last 30 minutes, is showing a time period starting at 12.43 and ending at 13.13.

Has anyone else had this problem? I will, of course, contact customer service but they may not understand the issue, and anyway it helps to know if others are in the same situation.

Netexporter

My app, IHD, phone and PC are all showing the correct (new) time.