We're purchasing via our Ltd Company. Owner is company, Registered Keeper is me. I'm assured this is the way to do it, for the HMRC 100% year 1 offset corp ta
I'm as good as certain that's all fine, but would prefer someone else confirm,.
If you haven't spoken to your accountant yet I recommend you do that - accountant may not know, but will then be on notice to find out!!
Probably any of them will do.
If you have / intend-to-have Solar Panels you might want something that starts charging car when it detects that you are exporting (e.g. Zappi)
Not sure there is much benefit to the Tesla one. Mine has a [considerably] more robust, and longer, cable than my Zappi. But its older model, and dumb (and I don't know what benefit a newer model has). I'm happy with that (it provides power to the car, so if the car says "Charge" that will happen, and thus I can drive the whole car-charging "from the car"
The Tesla one has a button on the Wand that will open the charge flap (but you can just push the flap to open) and, much more useful, the button will stop a charge, unlock the charger, and you can remove it (car has to be unlocked to allow that, so a spotty youth can't walk up and disconnect you
for-a-larf), the alternative is to get your phone out, open the APP, navigate to the bit where you can do STOP CHARGE and/or UNLOCK CHARGER ... or lean into the car and stretch across to the screen and do similar and then walk to the back of the car to disconnect .... that's a lot more faff. I find the "wand button" useful
Out-of-the-box the car will do "Start at 00:00" or "Stop at 04:00" but not both [**] (so if charging isn't finished you will overrun your Off Peak and finish charging at Peak tariff). Some people work around that by setting charge limit (after returning "empty" from a long trip) to, say, 50% tonight and then 80% tomorrow night. Bit of a faff.
You can use a 3rd party tool like TeslaFi or Tessie to schedule stuff like "Stop charging at 04:00" - which will overcome that limitation (and you can schedule a bunch of other stuff, such as starting the cabin climate 20 minutes before your ,morning departure for work, and ditto before leaving work, and alert you if you forget to plug in at home, and if the work charger trips out and you aren't getting any juice whilst at work .... and so on. The more nerdy you are the more useful that will be ... if you aren't the least bit nerdy then probably skip all that stuff!!
But the "Start at 00:00" works well. If you come home
dirty-stop-out considerably after that it will still start charging, and with dumb charger you can come home and do "Charge now" (on dashboard or APP) and the car will charge. If you have a smart charger you are likely to have to also open that APP and override that. Ditto if you have an EV mate round and they plug in ... they won't get anything until you work magic with the APP to override it. So, for my money, Dumb Charger is better.
[**] I seem to think that a recent update may have improved on that ??
