Ford and Octopus Energy

n8bear

We have had a Ford car for over a year and enjoyed Octopus EV tariff where they control our charging basically switch it on when they ready, the access for this is through the Ford Plus App.

Now Ford has blocked us and say they do not give permission to third parties, so our EV charging will rise from 7 kWh to 28p per kilowatt-hour, to me this is anticompetitive and forces us to follow Ford. Has anyone else had this issue recently ?

Keep_pedalling

I have not heard of this, but am currently stuck on Octupus Go because of VW ID3 is stuck on an old software version. You can still get your cheap rate on Intelligent  Octopus by manually charging during the 6 hour night cheap rate, but I would post over on the SpeakEV forum to see if any another Ford drivers are having this issue. 

https://www.speakev.com/forums/

What home charging unit are you using?

QrizB

n8bear said:

Now Ford has blocked us and say they do not give permission to third parties, so our EV charging will rise from 7 kWh to 28p per kilowatt-hour

Octopus have wo different EV tariffs; Intelligent Octopus and Octopus Go.

It sounds to me as though you were previously on Intelligent Octopus (6 hrs a night at 7.5p/kWh). This needs a compatible EV and/or wallbox.

However, even without Ford integration you can switch to Octopus Go (4 hrs a night at 9p/kWh) which doesn't make any particular demands on the EV or wallbox.

I've been on Go for a while (this is my third year).

n8bear

Yes am on Intelligent Octopus and yes can Hive charger to get the fixed EV overnight hours, but when the car charge on IO i charges whole house at 7p per Kwh not just car so significant roll on effect , I have written to CEO of Ford and Octopu complaining 

born_again

n8bear said:

We have had a Ford car for over a year and enjoyed Octopus EV tariff where they control our charging basically switch it on when they ready, the access for this is through the Ford Plus App.

Now Ford has blocked us and say they do not give permission to third parties, so our EV charging will rise from 7 kWh to 28p per kilowatt-hour, to me this is anticompetitive and forces us to follow Ford. Has anyone else had this issue recently ?

https://fpcommunity.ford.com/t5/Chat/Third-party-api-blocking/m-p/1054

Nasty move by Ford....

andyg9053

Snap, blocked my app about 2 weeks ago. Should get it back today🤞

QrizB

n8bear said:

Yes am on Intelligent Octopus and yes can Hive charger to get the fixed EV overnight hours, but when the car charge on IO i charges whole house at 7p per Kwh not just car so significant roll on effect , I have written to CEO of Ford and Octopu complaining 

And on Go, your whole house is charged at 9p/kWh.
I'm not saying it's as good as IO, but if you can't meet the IO requirements it's probably the next best thing Octopus offer.