EV charger and tariff

Exiled_Tyke

A compatible charger or car with Octopus can get you on Intelligent GO which is 6 hours at 7.5p and can be used for the whole house.   This is plenty of time to run the washing machine, dishwasher, and fill my house battery. 

I also thought the consensus was that Granny Chargers as well as being riskier also waste more electricty while charging? 

Finally the BG offer for a charger doesn't seem massivley generous to me... but I may be wrong

Solarchaser

If you had to buy a fast charger,  I'd go with ohme or zappi as they are compatible with intelligent octopus, which is 6 hours for whole house at 7.5p.

However my friend recently bought a Tesla and used the front of the granny charger, with a Tesla converter and just plugged it into a commando plug.
Essentially turning the granny charger into a fast charger, which is definitely the cheapest way to do it.

Obviously that works because Tesla is on the octopus list.

Reed_Richards

Well Eon NextDruve v3 now gives me 7 hours at 6.9p per kWh.  You just need to have an EV, the type of charger is of no consequence. 

I control my granny charger with a Tapo P110 device that tells me the electricity consumed.  Whenever I checked, the charging efficiency was 90% so I guess that means I pay 7.7p per kWh of stored charge.  If I could achieve the claimed range of my car that would get me about 4 miles.    

Solarchaser

Is eon not EV only though?
I use octopus as its whole house, so I can heat my water tanks and charge my batteries for that same 7.5p

If eon is whole house, it might be worth considering moving

As far as claimed range, I think the Tesla 3 is supposed to be 360, I generally get 280, but it does tend to be 4 miles per kwh

Reed_Richards

Solarchaser said:

Is eon not EV only though?

No, not at all.  I heat my hot water and warm up the house with my heat pump, charge the battery that I got with my solar PVs and run the dishwasher and washing machine all on the cheap rate, quite apart from charging my EV as necessary.  The heating I do mostly between 5 am and 7 am so the house is warm when I get up, not two hours earlier.

Solarchaser

I had a look,thanks.
7am finish is alot better than octopus 5:30am and 7 hours definitely better than 6.
6.9p is better than 7.5p.

I reckon I'd save around £80 a year, however higher standing charge brings that to £60

Peak rate is 29.2 eon vs 26.5 octopus, not that I use much peak rate, generally under 2%, but part of the calculation.

And the down side is that depending on my driving month I could use the intelligent part of octopus to put 10 hours of charging in the car at 7.5p up to 5 times a month.

So I'm a soft no at this point, however it's great to see other companies offer competitive rates, as that will keep octopus on their toes and stop them getting complacent,  and thats never a bad thing.

Reed_Richards

I don't know if this offer is still on but Eon Next were offering the same sort of recruitment incentive that Octopus do (or did?).  I can still find a link to the offer:  Refer a Friend and get £50 account credit | E.ON Next (eonnext.com) so you would just need to find the right friend.