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You want to make sure your solar and battery install is correctly configured alongside/with your charger too, one of the most common complaints I see on socials is 'why does my EV charger drain my battery when I don't want it to?' and it's because the installation isn't configured to allow this to be controlled correctly.
Find a deal you might like and ask others on here if they get similar offers - that'll help you guage whether it's a decent scheme or a borderline scam scheme.
Great idea.
My company doesnt even seem to offer it, at least it's not on our intranet thingy. Might ask around, I could certainly sacrifice a lot more than her.
I check mine every so often in hope it has miraculously become vaguely sensible, as like you I have opportunity to sacrifice, but the prices on ours are just offensive really.
Which provider do you use?
Make sure your batty is ‘blinded’ to your EV charger.
Solar/battery inverters use CT clamps to monitor the energy use in your house and deploy energy from the battery accordingly. If the CT clamp is covering the EV charger the battery will fill that demand.
Octopus intelligent will charge the car at any time of the day at a moments notice so scheduling battery charging at the same time as a mitigation is not practical unless you can automate it (e.g. home assistant).
The best mitigation is to make sure the inverter can’t ‘see’ the EV charger in the first place.
That usually means installing the EV charger on its own consumer unit which is connected near to where your meter by splitting the mail cable is so it has no interaction with the house loads. You then place your CT clamp on the cable going to your house consumer unit only.
I think it's Novuna - though i've no idea if they are generally expensive or if it's just the particular arrangement our company have signed up to
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Appreciate the help, most of which went over my head!
Already had the electrician and the solar installer over to scope what's needed. No doubt I'll be asking a million questions to each when they are over doing the work.
If she isn't paying 40% tax then steer well clear
She's over it a bit, but I'm considerably past it so it'd be perfect for me. Problem is my company doesn't seem to offer it
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I was remarkablly clean this time. It was my New Year’s resolution to get no bans and I’m sticking to it.Lol every time there's a post massacre Jonnycoupe is involved
Wife's looking at salsac at work. Might be an option, dunno.
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I prefer my batty boys blind full stop, they can’t run away then.
TLDR: it needs to be wired like this:
The solar CT is ‘after’ the EV charger so it can’t see the load from it, only the house.
Edit: many installers don’t consider this at all and is why you see loads of complaints about cars draining batteries.
Many installers don’t actually know much about the products they install. They drive round in a diesel van all day, makes sense if you think about it…
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If it's only a bit I'd be tempted to just bump up pension contributions to bring her taxable salary just under the threshold.She's over it a bit, but I'm considerably past it so it'd be perfect for me. Problem is my company doesn't seem to offer it
We have a daft policy (excuse) that we can't have salary sacrifice (pensions or cars), cycle2work or anything else like that because the company won't offer something if every employee isn't eligible... And any such scheme would push some people under minimum wage.
I just live like I'm on a low salary and dump silly amounts into my pension with aim of buying back a decade to enjoy it later on down the line
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About 4 times in the last 18 months I've had to reboot my Zappi so I said to the wife I'll make you a SOP in case I die.
You might find it useful - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_jmMF_vBPFyxpgwNOKPRoSPSW1GzjfHn/view?usp=sharing
Somebody will be along to cry about it "blah blah cry cry why do you need a SOP, you can't make this stuff up" etc
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I always shop around for tarriffs. I’m on a cheap deal at moment with e.on. I get 2 hours of discounted charging every few days. My rate is 19p per kw and about 10p off during the discount period. I wouldn't benefit from 34p plus / 8p night rates at moment.
You've also got real experts who are very arrogant so be careful about asking simple questions.
Since you're new make sure you get the right supplier, I can recommend Octopus on the Intelligent Go system with a Zappi charger.
A little fact from my side, we were paying between £180 to £200 a month for house electric and petrol, when we had an EV on Intelligent Go our bills have come down to £80 to £90 a month.
When you plug in Octopus gives you a schedule, ours normally starts at 8:30pm for cheap electric and that's when the washing machine and tumble dryer go on.
Obviously others are having success with other suppliers and chargers so pick everybody's brains.
I used to like edf with free elec on Sunday so might go back to that.
Already had a charger installed an Easee one.
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I'm home all day (retired early
) So need some cheap energy during day (including Gas). Getting Roof Solar plus a small Battery soon as well.Next Fixed 15m v7
Fixed term ends 10/06/2027
Elec: 19.93 p/kWh - Standing Charge: 45.70 p/day
GAS: 4.96 p/kWh - Standing Charge:34.55 p/day
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