EV, Solar panels and finding the best tariff

Reed_Richards

@born_again, I already had the external socket and dedicated circuit and, fortunately, it didn't cost me nearly as much as the couple of hundred you suppose. But you are absolutely right that you do need a suitable socket to use a granny charger. I'm on a regular EV tariff.

Some people will need the rapid recharging that a 7 kW charger can give; some people will not. This is a forum about money saving and I know I personally have saved money by not being railroaded into getting an expensive EV charger that I don't actually need.

matt_drummer

IOG works using a granny charger if you have a suitable car.

Ask @MattMattMattUK

born_again

Each to their own, at 6K a year I'm £££ in over a granny charger 🤷‍♀️

& yes, your right you can granny on IOG, as said.

Only danger now is when they get the software sorted, the enforcement of the T/C will make using them harder, so as not to go over the capped hours due to slow charging 🤷‍♀️

MattMattMattUK

Yep, granny charger on IOG. Works well for me as I normally only drive 30-35 miles a day so more than enough to top that up every night. I have not yet had the change to the IOG maximum six hours of charging yet, although I think that was not rolled out for everyone immediately, but is being rolled out to customers over the whole of April, so I expect that change will happen soon.

johnbhoy70

On our figures IOG would have been dearer for us moving from EON drive ( not smart) UNLESS we could have got daylight savings which I'm sure we could have done now and again. I didn't go down that particular rabbit hole as I've stated we're both out all day really other than other wife works from home occasionally. A lot easier to plan for people if at least one or both work full-time from home or even for retired folks. Another thing I think is relevant, especially at this time of year the range on our particular EV is a bit of a joke . Ideal conditions it says circa 220 but in dead of winter you're closer to half that.

Stating the obvious here but there's no one size fits all!