Yes - whilst charging the car.
I'm not familiar with Octopus rates but still think the 34p is in the ball park for everything else?
As I've next to nothing to load shift this works out better for me
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I'm not familiar with Octopus rates but still think the 34p is in the ball park for everything else?
As I've next to nothing to load shift this works out better for me
so... 34p on-peak + 10p off peak. it is just a bit better on the on-peak tariff but worse on the off-peak.
IO is 39p + 7.5 p - if you charge car a bit more - you would want to be on IO. and you most probably will have a bit more than just 6 hours of Off-peak rate tho
adding Solar + batteries soon - so I presume I will be at 7.5 p as my max tariff anyway, with usage for the car charging only
I'm on Octopus Agile, which is variable daily, in 30 minute slots. My overall average cost for the past 28 days has been 23.27p/Kwh, which is a lot less than it would be on any of the other "EV" tariffs at the moment.
it depends how much you charge I suppose.
I usually have at least 2x 40 kwh charges a week (80 kwh). in 7.5p it is 6.00 gbp
my day-time usage is on average similar to that (roughly 10 kwh a day, 70 kwh a week)
so total is 33.33 gbp a week for 150 kwh. which is 0.22 kwh :/
oh, and my wife also refuses to shift load, so all washing and drying is more or less peak times... :/
it is 39 for the on-peak rate with IO now... didn't you receive the email about reduced rates? :/ rates were reduced like 2 weeks ago or so.
me and my wife we both work from home and our daily low on-peak is like 4 kwh, daily high is 11 kwh :/
Yeah my deal on IO ends in June (7.5p + 35p). The new rates for me will be 7.5p and 42p. So that is an increase for me, which equates to about £21 more per month. If I go with OVO, on average I'll save about £12pm moving over.
Octopus said themselves on an email that it will cost me £300 more on the new IO tariff.
| So what does it all cost? |
| Your current Intelligent Octopus prices Peak unit rate: 35.11p / kWh Off-peak unit rate: 7.50p / kWh Standing charge: 37.65p / day Estimated annual cost (electricity only): £1,587.48 We've based your estimate on your historical half-hourly usage pattern - that's 3,293 kWh during Intelligent Octopus peak times and 3,918 kWh during Intelligent Octopus off-peak times. |
| Your new Intelligent Octopus prices Peak unit rate: 41.65p / kWh Off-peak unit rate: 7.50p / kWh Standing charge: 42.01p / day Estimated annual cost (electricity only): £1,818.71 |
| Flexible Octopus prices Peak unit rate: 45.03p / kWh Off-peak unit rate: 16.31p / kWh Standing charge: 42.11p / day Estimated annual cost (electricity only): £2,103.53 |
MrBadger
Badger out
Don’t believe the numbers in the Octopus comparison. They are not specific to you even if it might imply they are. Put your actual usage and do the calcs yourself.
Ours changed dramatically when we used our actual and gave a completely different best tarrif.
Same here and no action from OVO to resolve it. I already have a SMETS2 meter, so its not that delaying it, the OVO web site confirms the move is completed but wont allow me to sign up to Charge Anytime as I don't have a smart meter!
Jason71
Well-Known Member
its area dependant. and it seems Essex is more expensive than most places. Who would have thought there could be a downside to living in Essex!
Posting this here as a 'just in case'. I added the EV Anytime tariff to my OVO account and installed an Indra smart charger and so far has worked perfectly, it charges at all sorts of different times when it's plugged in, but always gets to my chosen 80% by the 'ready by' time and often much sooner. However, I recently added the Ovo Charge Anytime App - just because - but my experience is that it's a huge battery drain. Took me a while to work out what it was as I'm new to the car and it lost a chunk of charge overnight which had never happened before. Remembered reading on here about vampire 3rd party apps (have looked to see if the Ovo app is called out elsewhere, but couldn't find it) and as soon as I uninstalled the Ovo app, drain has gone back to an absolute minimum. Given the app is unnecessary anyway, at least with my setup, just thought it might save others looking at going with OVO a potential issue if they do.
This is not something I've found, or reconcile in the way you describe.
Like you my charge often completes a lot earlier than required and I may lose 1% from the time of completion to when I actually get in the car - I put this down to preconidtioning though.
I assume in the above you mean battery drain on the car.... If it's on the phone I haven't noticed anything at all.... I'm running it on Android, Samsung Ultra 23
Absolutely - as soon I can get in it's dropped a %!I think charges to .0 on the value you set, so as soon as you turn the radio on it drops 1%
I thought it was just me with that OCD!
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