EV general discussion
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Cheers for the ideas/advice. My sketch does not show this but garden/driveway 'walls' are just wooden fences. Only the house are bricks.
They said no on using the wooden fence and adviced underground cables for safety reasons.
Ill check other installers for quotations for a non-standard install to get the charger close to the driveway.
They said no on using the wooden fence and adviced underground cables for safety reasons.
Ill check other installers for quotations for a non-standard install to get the charger close to the driveway.
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You could mount the charger on a concrete or metal post.
I get the underground safety aspect, could you do most of that work before they come?
Really annoyed at this. Was on Octopus but our energy usage is mainly during peak periods and changing usage to off peak was not realistic. We therefore switched to Ovo as we can use the 7p charge anytime and the all day price was only 0.5p more expensive than my old Octopus rate 24.5p vs 25p. Octopus was something like 29p when using the EV tariff.
Now stuck with this awful OVO tariff as all the other providers have put their standard price up making moving impossible. Scumbag move even though you can leave without penalty it's not financially worth it.
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Move back to Octpopus
Back to your orignal question, £900 for an untetherd Zappi is in the right ballpark.
That said, I'd probably pay the extra to not have to deal with a 20m cable every time I needed to charge my car, this would involve me digging the trench myself though.
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Prices have gone up for peak period substantially on the Octopus Intelligent Go:
Day rate (05:30 - 23:30)
31.94 p/kWh
Where as my OVO tarriff is:
Unit rate
23.89p per Kilowatt hour
Either way we've been screwed. I doubt OVO will be the only provider increasing the prices. What is ridiculous is that it's cheaper just to charge at 14p kw/h rather than use any of their subscription options. From my quick and admittedly poor maths with the free £120 public charging at 0.80p kw/h using public chargers it still costs 14.6p kw/h when using the £27.50 tariff? Literally makes no sense.
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IOG is 29.2p vs 26.5p for the regular tariff after the October price rise for me.
Your's being 3p more expensive seems, quite a lot. I assume your 23p rate is pre-october rise also?
That said, even if most of your house useage is in the peak period, it may still be cheaper to be on IOG. Based on the 31.94p/kwh rate, if 80% of your house use was at the peak rate, your average rate would be about 26.9p/kwh which is roughtly the price cap going into October (for me anyway - not sure where you live).
When I moved to IOG, my electricy bill excluding car charging actually went down and I didn't do any 'extreeme' time shifting. All that changed was the diswasher and very occationally the washing machine got put on overnight and that was it. Everything else was business as usual.
EDIT - That Octopus price is probably the fixed tariff they are now offering, thats 31.64p for me, the variable rate is much lower at 28.96p (current rate, new rate is 29.2p as above)
Using my 80% split above, the average rate would be 24.76p on the variable version. Once you factor in charging, that will come right down.
Edit2: updated the above calculation to use the new rate.
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They now have have 1 year fix which is more expensive, 31-32p/kwh per my edit above.
ah then my suggestions won't work then
i've not heard/seen installs where cables were mounted to wooden fences, but it wouldn't hurt to ask though
It's against the electrical regulations, fenses are considered to be temporary structures and you can't affix cables to them. It makes sense if you think about it given every time there is a bit of wind, someone's fence falls over.
haha yes indeed, that'll be why!
I've initiated a switch back to Octopus. Issue is I can't sign up to IOG until it's complete so I'll end up paying a slightly higher rate. Don't really care - companies doing shady anti consumer things like OVO need to go out of business.
Mine will be:
Standing charge = 47.632p
Day rate = 28.124p
Night rate = 7p
Estimated cost increase over a year is £20
I was paying on average to EDF £120 a month, our last IOG bill was for £66 including charging EV.
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Add in how much you were paying for fossil fuel and ours was something like £180 down to £70
My electricity bill is now -£150ish if we take off previous fuel costs, not a bad dealAdd in how much you were paying for fossil fuel and ours was something like £180 down to £70
