Yet another home charging thread
Discussion
Just bought the missus a secondhand Model 3 LR and only have a granny charger (the dealership has forgot to include the Type 2 charging cable, fortunately public chargers are tethered)
From the deep recalls of my mind when reseraching for the new car, am I right in saying Intelligent Octopus Go is prob the best tariff to be on?
What's the best brand of Home charger to get and are there any deals or public grants floating about anymore? (I'm based in Scotland)
From the deep recalls of my mind when reseraching for the new car, am I right in saying Intelligent Octopus Go is prob the best tariff to be on?
What's the best brand of Home charger to get and are there any deals or public grants floating about anymore? (I'm based in Scotland)
Intelligent Go is a good tariff, as it gets you the cheap rate for the whole house, and some bonus cheap periods on top.
Get a charger that works directly with Intelligent Go (rather than relying on the car), that way it'll work with any car. Ohme or Zappi I think, but you can check on the Octopus website
Get a charger that works directly with Intelligent Go (rather than relying on the car), that way it'll work with any car. Ohme or Zappi I think, but you can check on the Octopus website
Strocky said:
Just bought the missus a secondhand Model 3 LR and only have a granny charger (the dealership has forgot to include the Type 2 charging cable, fortunately public chargers are tethered)
From the deep recalls of my mind when reseraching for the new car, am I right in saying Intelligent Octopus Go is prob the best tariff to be on?
What's the best brand of Home charger to get and are there any deals or public grants floating about anymore? (I'm based in Scotland)
Yes Octopus currently provide the best EV tariff and you can get other benefits too like free electric periods when there is surplus, saving sessions where they pay you not to use electric during peak periods etc. I've been very happy with them, I have a Zappi and Tesla 3 LR so can confirm it works OK.From the deep recalls of my mind when reseraching for the new car, am I right in saying Intelligent Octopus Go is prob the best tariff to be on?
What's the best brand of Home charger to get and are there any deals or public grants floating about anymore? (I'm based in Scotland)
This page shows the compatible chargers https://octopus.energy/get-an-ev-charger/
If you want to benefit from £50 off if you switch to Octopus please message me for my referral code.
It is useful to have a type 2 cable for untethered public chargers like to might see in car parks, hotels, gyms etc these cost about £100. https://evonestop.co.uk/collections/ev-charging-ca...
clockworks said:
Intelligent Go is a good tariff, as it gets you the cheap rate for the whole house, and some bonus cheap periods on top.
Get a charger that works directly with Intelligent Go (rather than relying on the car), that way it'll work with any car. Ohme or Zappi I think, but you can check on the Octopus website
Yes, get a charger that is compatible with intelligent go rather than relying on the car as the manufacturer can remove access to the API (I’m looking at you Jaguar!)Get a charger that works directly with Intelligent Go (rather than relying on the car), that way it'll work with any car. Ohme or Zappi I think, but you can check on the Octopus website
gmaz said:
Yes Octopus currently provide the best EV tariff and you can get other benefits too like free electric periods when there is surplus, saving sessions where they pay you not to use electric during peak periods etc. I've been very happy with them, I have a Zappi and Tesla 3 LR so can confirm it works OK.
This page shows the compatible chargers https://octopus.energy/get-an-ev-charger/
If you want to benefit from £50 off if you switch to Octopus please message me for my referral code.
It is useful to have a type 2 cable for untethered public chargers like to might see in car parks, hotels, gyms etc these cost about £100. https://evonestop.co.uk/collections/ev-charging-ca...
Much obliged Gmaz, PM incomingThis page shows the compatible chargers https://octopus.energy/get-an-ev-charger/
If you want to benefit from £50 off if you switch to Octopus please message me for my referral code.
It is useful to have a type 2 cable for untethered public chargers like to might see in car parks, hotels, gyms etc these cost about £100. https://evonestop.co.uk/collections/ev-charging-ca...
For pure EV charging, there are a couple of tariffs which are marginally cheaper; Tomato has one, and EDF too. Both are slightly cheaper off-peak.
So if you're focusing on purely the price of the cheap rate, Octopus isn't necessarily best. Taking an overall view, though, they're a very good provider with excellent customer care - and this is worth the extra fractions of a penny on the off-peak rate. The kind of "worth paying to avoid the headache"-level worth it.
So if you're focusing on purely the price of the cheap rate, Octopus isn't necessarily best. Taking an overall view, though, they're a very good provider with excellent customer care - and this is worth the extra fractions of a penny on the off-peak rate. The kind of "worth paying to avoid the headache"-level worth it.
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