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I read it as this.

23:30 - 05:30. 7p all the time for the house.

Your car / car charger can only deliver 6hours worth (in a 24h period) of 7p regardless of whenever that occurs.
 
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I can't believe in the faq no one thought to put in at what point the 24hrs reset and if you can straddle 2 24 hrs periods with 1 charge. it seems an obvious question to me.

I have not looked into it yet but some on my friends group chat are now claiming EON next drive.smart. will now work out cheaper for them.
 
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bigmike20vt said:
I can't believe in the faq no one thought to put in at what point the 24hrs reset and if you can straddle 2 24 hrs periods with 1 charge. it seems an obvious question to me.

I have not looked into it yet but some on my friends group chat are now claiming EON next drive.smart. will now work out cheaper for them.
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I've seen some posts in FB groups quoting Phil Steele (the blog author), saying it's midday reset cycle
 
Do you get notifications everytime they changed your charging schedule?
I have put things on before and then they go change it, I don't know and it goes into peak rate.
Unless I sit there refreshing it all the time.
The only notification is when I first plug the car in and it gives me the first plan.

Tonight it's changed about 5 times and it's never told me. I could have charged to the house battery, but again, if need to sit there freshing it to see.
 
it can change at any point. you don't know for certain until the car starts charging then you are ok for the rest of the 30 mins

your best bet is to consider house usage on the extra slots as a brucey bonus and not something to bank on
 
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Kenai said:
This doesn't sound right, an Ohme charger integrated and onboarded correctly with IOG as the controlling device should be able to generate schedules outside of the core cheap hours.
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I have never had one not even in the previous year I was on IOG and yes I have everything set up as Octopus demand with dynamic charging enabled. Having a Leaf though means they can easily charge my car overnight. My schedules are always low and slow usually with a "race to the finish" at the end. My schedule for tonight as a example is:-

23.35-00.20 - 1.4kw@6A
00.31-01.09 - 1.4kw@6A
01.22-02.38 - 1.4kw@6A
02.38-05.14 4.3kw@18A

I have also had the email now and it does read rather confusing, as my old nan would have said, "it's clear as mud"!!
 
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well, according to octopus 6h/day was enough for 80% of their IOG users
i do suspect that the majority of the other 20% were trying to game the system though

so in essence, yes, 6h/day is enough outside of niche use cases
 
20% seems really high for people gaming it, it’s more likely people not charging daily, letting the car run down and charging it back up in one hit.

My round trip commute will be 160 miles next year, 6 hours will not be enough to refill the car BUT I would be able to make it work as it’s 3 days per week, even if I went 3 days in the trot.
 
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20% seems really high for people gaming it, it’s more likely people not charging daily, letting the car run down and charging it back up in one hit.

My round trip commute will be 160 miles next year, 6 hours will not be enough to refill the car BUT I would be able to make it work as it’s 3 days per week, even if I went 3 days in the trot.
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My use case is when visiting family and friends. if I go up. Friday afternoon. At the moment I go up see my folks Friday , sat morning drive about see family (no home charging) then go to my mates sat afternoon who has an EV charge point in winter my car could be around 5% , and then put the 80kwh into my car whilst having some beers and what not then come back home Sunday brunch time .
this will now significantly increase in cost.
I am not saying it doesn't need to happen to remain viable for octopus, and not whining about it, just that there are very real scenarios not just hypothetical made up edge cases where prices are gonna go up a fair bit , and not just people gaming the system.
 
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throwaway4372 said:
This thread is supposed to be about electric cars.

But most posts are about electricity tariffs.

That needs sorting out.
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Well it’s inherently part of running costs. If you are paying 31p a kWh to charge your EV at home you may aswell stick to ICE. Recent posts are due to octopus.

Maybe you can add something about the cars ?
 
I got well and truly shafted by Octopus last night. I contacted them by email yesterday morning and explained that I wasn't offered a choice of fixed or variable when I spoke to their customer service advisor when coming back to them last month and just got a email from them which was sent last night saying that they cancelled my IOG and that I need to reapply for the variable version. Meanwhile charging the car, doing the washing and tumble drying last night was all done at their svr rate!! So much for excellent customer service!! Why couldn't they have just switched me? That's it, i'm done with these cowboys, who else does EV tariffs (not Ovo) for a similar price?
 
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Simon said:
I imagine if you set it properly you would always get 6 hours at full power
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This is something Octopus really ought to have clarified with charger manufacturers that vary charge rates before going public regarding time based enforcement.

As it is, the response seems to have been "oh your charger does that? Well it's not us, we'll ask the charger manufacturer and see what they say"
 
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