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I'm so confused, I received my car yesterday and transferred to IO go. I got a smart charging schedule that was something like 1.30am - 6am. I asked for 35% charge to be added (car arrived at 50%).

At 11.30pm last night, the car starts charging and kept going until it hit full - so the smart charge window wasn't used and the battery was overcharged... Any ideas? I haven't created any charge schedule unless the car arrived with one pre-set.
 
Minstadave said:
If your smart plan doesn't start at 23.30 it wouldn't normally start at 23.30.

If the Octopus side can't contact the charger/car properly then it will start at 23.30. Mine seems to fail to talk to each other once every couple of weeks.
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Gotcha - might need to call octopus tomorrow then as every night I get put onto smart charging at 23.30
 
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Right, I seem to have discovered potentially what went wrong.

Octopus did tell me that the car did smart charge, however the timing of the charge they told me did not match my charging time (which started around midnight)

I opened up the zappi app and lo and behold, there's a charge schedule in it! I never added this but have now cleared it so will try again soon!!
 
Journey said:
For me the Ohme app tells you the slots you have been given, and it totally depends on the grid at the time, and when you've set your departure time for. There are very few occasions when I haven't had extra slots due the afternoon or evening, and generally all weekend.
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My car charge stays fairly high, so I haven't been plugging it in... Should I be doing so to u lock cheaper slots?
 
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