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I don’t understand why you think you need to fully charge a 300mile car every night ?
Octopus gives the whole house cheap electric. Isn’t OVO just for the car. Also it says anytime which is odd as it’s not very green to charge a car 4-6pm
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Which part of that is a question? I have no desire to move away from Octopus, I support the pioneers.
I understand perfectly well thanks.
Octopus IOG is great. We need a full charge tomorrow, and the car was at 23%. Plug in, and it gives me a cheap rate charge window from 7pm all through the night until it's charged. Handy for also getting an extra wash load done and tumble dried.
Not sure OVOs tariff would be so generous.
Not sure OVOs tariff would be so generous.
You what…it’s just a variable tariff.
You have to average out your monthly usage. Yes you get those periods where they give you money to use leccy. But you also get periods where all day the leccy is over 20p/unit and peak rate was 50p/unit which was a couple of weeks back.
Pointless to just state the best but if a variable tariff.
I assume OVO is charge any time? That is all day anytime.
A car for the " but I need 500 miles of range" crew
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My problem with EVs is they are soulless. Yeah they are quick in a straight line but so what. Give me a living breathing ICE everyday of the week over a whining electric motor.
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Intelligent isn’t variable to the point you are trying make with plunge… that Agile. Yeah get this, when you look at tarriffs you have to do some basic maths… no way!!
OVO anytime is credited back to you account after on car charging use only. Not house. Very different.
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Yeah nice 4 cylinder diesel gets me up in the morning… and half the neighbours.
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Might need to get that exhaust looked at then.
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Nah mate. I’ve got a v8 f type and IPACE. 4 cylinder diesel will never occupy my drive again…
Driving an ICE car through stop/start commuter traffic daily.... no thanks !
P.S - you can't hear my electric motor
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Hey my 4 cylinder diesel van does an amazing job, well it does what it says on the tin and does it very well indeed.
Big fan of the V8 F-Type. Now that isn't a soulless car
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I hate to break it to you, but an ICE isn't alive. At a stretch you could say it breathes... but it also certainly doesn't have a soul
(Unless it's a particular type of Kia)and yes I am a petrolhead believe it or not - but even so I prefer my EV (which doesn't whine... there's a bit of a whistle at full power but that's just vaguely reminiscent of a K04 turbo at full song)
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No, you are confusing things, a horse may have had a soul - a car on the other hand, no matter how it is powered does not, so go back to the 19th century and get your self a cart horse, no congestion charge either.
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I don't disagree that an ICE doesn't have "soul" but a good ICE does incite emotion for its driver.
The problem is that most ICE are simply a means to make the wheels turn around and the emotion it invokes is "meh", there is nothing to be lost and much to be gained by changing these over to electric drive.
The problem is that most ICE are simply a means to make the wheels turn around and the emotion it invokes is "meh", there is nothing to be lost and much to be gained by changing these over to electric drive.
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Intelligent is a cheap overnight PLUS charge your car almost any time when you need it AND you get 7.5p electric for your whole house while it's active. Peak rate is 31p, but any time you're charging your car you shouldn't be paying that.
My charge cut out at about 2am last hight (my main gripe with IO - I suspect mostly to do with Audi's api) - so I've reset it this morning and I'm now charging again + keeping the house battery topped up all morning at the 7.5p rate.
OVO is not ‘any time’ it works in the same way as IOG in that you plug in the car, tell the app when you want it charged by and and they charge the car when wholesale costs are cheapest.
Both IOG and OVO will charge a car from empty to full to be ready the next day, assuming there is enough time between you plugging in and the time you next need the car.
As has already been pointed out the main differentiators between OVO and IOG are:
OVO is 7p/price cap rates but you only get the 7p for what the car consumes.
IOG is 7.5p/slightly above price cap but you get the 7.5p rate for all your consumption between 11.30 and 5.30 AND any other IOG slots which fall outside of this time which are communicated to you when you plug in the car.
Despite IOG having higher headline rates, it’s likely to be cheaper for the vast majority of people as you can get more of your total consumption at 7.5p then you can on OVO at 7p.
Edit: IOG becomes a total no brainer if you have a home battery.
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