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born_again

matt_drummer said:

My wife's car is not so clever, you cannot limit the charge percentage and even though I set a percentage in the Octopus app it generally gets ignored, although not always.


Does the cheap rate finish when the car has received its full charge or does it continue to the end of the periods allocated by Octopus?

In my case today, the car wont be fully charged in three hours so starting at 20.30 it will be into the 23.30 to 05.30 period anyway before it is finished.

I wonder what would happen if it was finished by say 22.30, would it still be the cheap rate for the house from 22.30 to 23.30?

Car does not come into the equation at all for me. Mine is all controlled via Ohme app. 

Cheap rate is only while car is charging, not just connected.

No once car has finished charging back to full price.
Hence while I pull plug on charge once heavy use is finished. Gives more scope for another day. As My max usage is around 30 miles a day.
So other than a 100% charge at start of month. Max after the other 5 charges is between 60 & 75% with a max of 20% added in each of these charges.

Glad to be of help 👍

Silverbird65

Oh so just keep using my fixed rate as we will only will drive about 30 miles a week, with occasional 80 mile trip twice a year. So is it best to just use the OhME app to charge. It's all knew getting charger fitted Friday, car coming beginning February Renault Mégane.
👍

matt_drummer

Silverbird65 said:

I don't understand a thing you are all talking about. All I need to know is, is it worth getting EV tariff or stick with my fixed plan as we will only charge once a week maybe twice.
Thanks

@Silverbird65

Just work out what your monthly electricity cost would be on each tariff, I guess you want the cheapest?

It all depends on how much electricity you use.

EVs come in all shapes and sizes, big battery, small battery?

If your car is going to use 150kWh a week in two charges then that will cost you £10.50 on IOG

On your fixed tariff that may cost you £37.50 at 25p per kWh

It depends how much more electricity you use, what you can shift to the IOG cheap slots?

The IOG day rate is about 28p per kWh, probably not that much more than your fix, but we don't know, only you do.

Get a piece of paper, or a spreadsheet and do the sums.


I am sorry, I side tracked your thread a little, but all it is talking about is how to get even more hours at the cheap rate on IOG to save even more money.

There are other suppliers that also offer suitable tariffs that you could look at.

debitcardmayhem

Silverbird65 said:

I don't understand a thing you are all talking about. All I need to know is, is it worth getting EV tariff or stick with my fixed plan as we will only charge once a week maybe twice.
Thanks

It will depend on your usual electricity consumption generally. Do use electricity for heating/hot water etc. You say you are on fixed but is it economy 7.
Is your meter set to give half hourly readings, you can find out when you use it and how much.
The answer at the moment is probably/probably not, more detail will help us formulate the better answer

QrizB

For those of you who have been discussing how to get cheap IOG slots in the afternoon/evening, note there's a thread discussing this on the "Green & Ethical" forum with the note that Octopus reserve the right to change you to another tariff if you game it.

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81181068/#Comment_81181068

Silverbird65

Thanks we use mostly elec but we have gas central heating. I have a fixed tariff which ends in July 25. No so not have economy 7. Does that help?
 Thanks again for your time.

matt_drummer

Silverbird65 said:

Thanks we use mostly elec but we have gas central heating. I have a fixed tariff which ends in July 25. No so not have economy 7. Does that help?
 Thanks again for your time.

Well not much, sorry.

How can anybody work out what would be cheapest from the information you have supplied?

Can't you do it yourself?

Just work out how much it would cost on a range of tariffs and decide which one is cheapest, or you are happiest with.

born_again

Thanks just added my 2p worth 👍

matt_drummer

Silverbird65 said:

Oh so just keep using my fixed rate as we will only will drive about 30 miles a week, with occasional 80 mile trip twice a year. So is it best to just use the OhME app to charge. It's all knew getting charger fitted Friday, car coming beginning February Renault Mégane.
👍

You are not going to be using much electricity charging your car if you only do 30 miles a week.

That is only 10kWh at most.

Do you even need a specialised EV charger?

That's £1,000 or thereabouts?

@Reed_Richards might be able to explain why your plans may be a bad idea.

Silverbird65

I am on the motability scheme so the charger is part of the scheme.