Best charger for use with Octopus

[Davey S2]

Evening all.

Wife has just ordered a BMW i5 Touring which will be our first electric car.

We will obviously need a charger installed at home although most charging will be done at work so hopefully just the odd top up overnight or on the weekend.

Anyone have any recommendations for chargers that link up with the Octopus app so you can choose tariffs?

I’ve heard that Ohme epod (untethered) is good but does anyone have any experience with these?

Thanks in advance.

[uktrailmonster]

Ohme or Zappi. We have the latter. One of our clients is an installer and said there isn’t much to choose between them. He recommended Zappi so just went with that. Works fine with Octopus apparently, but I have my car (Tesla) connected directly with Octopus, so the charger is in dumb mode.

[DorsetSparky]

We fit Ohme and Zappi lots. Zappi tend to be better if you want to use the rest of their infrastructure - it integrates with solar, immersion heating, etc etc.
Ohme are great if not, I fit them very regularly. Both parents and in-laws have got them now too.

[uktrailmonster]

DorsetSparky said:

We fit Ohme and Zappi lots. Zappi tend to be better if you want to use the rest of their infrastructure - it integrates with solar, immersion heating, etc etc.
Ohme are great if not, I fit them very regularly. Both parents and in-laws have got them now too.

Ah yes, I remember now why we chose Zappi as we are thinking of adding solar at some point.

[_Rodders_]

No issues with our Ohme. We don't have solar or batteries.

[samoht]

Davey S2 said:

Wife has just ordered a BMW i5 Touring which will be our first electric car.
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Anyone have any recommendations for chargers that link up with the Octopus app so you can choose tariffs?

FWIW, it looks like Intelligent Octopus Go is natively compatible with the i5, so you could use any charger (or even a three-pin) and it would work.