Home EV Charging rates

[audi321]

Hi all, I'm thinking about getting an Economy 7 meter installed at home for my home charging.

Have most of you converted to E7? Do i be upfront and honest with my supplier when they ask why I want one?

I'm free to switch from my current supplier, so shall I get them to fit a meter first (they'll do it for free I think) and then look to switch, or switch first?

Lastly, does anyone have any recommendations for the cheapest E7 rate? I'm not bothered about day rates as I can easily switch my habits to 'night time' usage more.

Thanks in advance.

[jamei303]

Prices for each supplier will vary by region so you'd be better off using comparison sites or looking at supplier tariffs directly, rather than asking randoms.

[Heres Johnny]

I agree with a Jamie. And when doing so you typically pay slightly more daytime and less nighttime so the sum isn’t always straightforward without knowing the mix of each. I’ve not bothered and just go e for the cheapest flat rate I can find,

[gangzoom]

Had E7 at our old house when running the Leaf, our day versus night use was so skewed EON wouldnt believe our usage pattern and sent some one round to check our meter

Just switched to E7 on our new house which has a solar PV setup. Day 10 E7, so far 58 kWh day time use and 258 kWh night time!!

We are with Bulb so standard day time rate is 12.5p per kWh, so would be £39 on normal rate. With E7 day rate is 14p per kWh and 7p per kWh night, so £26 on E7. So working out £1.3 a day cheaper on E7, will work out around £500 cheaper a year.

We are getting a Tesla powerwall at some point which will mean our day time use will drop to near zero, so the electricty bill will drop again!!

I'm currently doing 1.2k a month in the EV, so roughly £80/month on E7 for all our electricty use including fuel for the car is pretty cheap compared to just fuel costs for a normal car.

Am pretty sure at some point in the future the E7 rates will have to go up as demand shifts from day to night as currently supplier calculate/price E7 rates based on roughly a 60/40 night/day split not the crazy 80/20 split user like me are showing. But whilst things are still cheap why not use it .

Edited by gangzoom on Tuesday 17th April 07:29

[caziques]

New Zealand has a similar charging structure for electricity. Either flat rate or higher during the day and much lower at night.

For various reason I have three meters, two are day/night.

One day/night is for a big irrigation pump, small pump for house water and charging two electric vehicles.

Last month 95% was night rate - 500 kWhrs out of 550 in total.

Makes for really cheap motoring, around 1p per kilometre as far as I can work out.

Driven over 20,000k in the eNV200 during the last year, saved something like £2000.

(Very usefully my night rate is from 9pm to 7am, and all weekend)