Energy prices - gone nuts.

[russdx1]

The octopus go intelligent is still 7p, 11.30 to 5.30, but they only support a small handful of chargers. We have no plans on moving and most likely will get more electric cars in the future so probably not a bad investment.

The car is 31kw according to octopus and it’s a big heavy car so you only get 70 miles max in pure electric Lolol but for what I will need it for that will be ok.

Leaning towards octopus go intelligent at the moment…

With this charger

Hypervolt Home 3 Pro​

As supports solar + battery setup correctly. Use cheap rate over winter to charge solar batteries.

 

[Asiapinball]

The cars have their own intelligence so you can program them to only charge in the cheap overnight times. Mine stays plugged in most of the time but the car only takes on charge from midnight to 7am when I get the cheap rate.

Electric tech is changing so quickly at the moment so I'm sure there will be better chargers available in a couple of years. And if wouldn't surprise me if the car manufacturers started to build the intelligent tech into their cars so intelligent chargers may be a thing of the past within a few years. I don't even know if that is possible or planned but since I got my first phev in 2016 and full electric in 2019 I have seen huge advances in the technology.

You really don't need the intelligent tech for now but I do understand the desire for it for greater convenience and ease of use and to fulfill the tech geek needs that we all seem to have on this forum

 

[Asiapinball]

In particularly the car manufacturers need to make sure the intelligent charging is built into the cars as there can be data issues.
Jaguar pulled intelligent charging capabilities from their cars a few tears back because if data concerns. The cars take on software updates automatically so the manufacturers have the ability to do this.

Jaguar I-Pace owners angry as smart charging ability removed | Autocar

Manufacturer says limiting third-party access to cars is to "keep clients’ data as safe as possible”

www.autocar.co.uk

 

[russdx1]

I think it will be useful to have a proper charged so can charge it faster if needs be and the intelligent ones only seem to be few hundred more. And yes we love our experience tech toys (weather it saves any money if not lol)

Solar panels seem to be working out so far since installation few years back. I just pay £100 a month for gas / electric all year around and think that’s not to bad for a large 4 bed house with 4 person family with electric ovens/hobs etc…

 

[daveyp]

My BMW XM has Intelligent charging but Octopus are having issues and there systems can't communicate with it so I don't get the full flexible charging only the 6 off peak hours. They say there working on it and it will come eventually. The BG Sync ev charger I have that's £399.99 at screw fix has Wifi and smart charging so not an issue.