When are you going fully electric?

[DarrenM343]

It’s not just the charger, you also need to consider the tariff and how the charger integrates with that.

Hypervolt enables you to access two of the most popular smart tariffs in the country (Octopus Intelligent Go and Ovo Anytime). The other charger doesn’t.

if you know someone who is already on octopus, ask them for their referral code and you’ll get £50 to switch. Ovo is probably the same.

Edit: Eon Drive next is also popular, no ‘clever’ charger needed.

The Eon Drive offering has improved a lot since I last checked, with the rates inc. standing charge similar to what I was already paying except for the low overnight rate, although it's fixed for a year. Finally made the switch to an EV tariff anyway after nearly 4 years of ownership and using the car a lot more.

 

[chanjy]

You can do 200 miles a day with overnight 7kW charging. Wouldn’t assume all DC

Agreed... I bought a 2 year old car with 80k on the clock and it had hardly been rapid charged, it just had a hard life commuting up and down the motorway!

 

[lordrobs]

When you say regular DC charging is ‘bad’, is that charging from 10-80%? Or all charging done at ultra fast chargers? I’ve been using DC charging pretty much once a week for the last few weeks, but it’s been adding 10 or 20kw just enough to get me home with 10% remaining.

I must admit that if the company was covering all my charging costs then it would sit on the charger for precisely however long I happen to want to stop for

 

[[YG]Bug-Eyed]

We’re getting a second EV on Tuesday, Sal Sac MG4 to go with my i4 company car. Can charge the BMW at work for freeso previously kept on Octopus Agile for elec as wasn’t doing much at home, but switched to Tomato lifestyle from Tuesday. Only 45p standing charge, 5p midnight to 6am then 2 x 2 hour slots during the day at 14p at 09:30 and 22:00. The rest at price cap. Seemed about the best I could find as OIGo won’t link to MGs!

 

[Tinders]

I must admit that if the company was covering all my charging costs then it would sit on the charger for precisely however long I happen to want to stop for

To be fair we get a pretty decent deal so I try not to take the mickey. They expect us to do =<200 miles and claim at the HMRC rate, anything over that we still claim at the HMRC rate but we get to expense any public charging. So pretty fair.

 

[mikeym]

Went fully EV (XC40 - company car, and EV6 - salary sacrifice scheme) early 2024. The EV6 has never been charged anywhere other than at home and I have only had to charge the XC40 on longer return trips - generally free at the companies I'm visiting.

With Octopus Intelligent we seem to be able to smart charge anytime of day @7p/kWh, despite the off-peak hours being 23:30 to 05:30.

Haven't done the detailed calculations but we're saving a lot of money with the change from my old 330e company car (limited electric range) and petrol family car.

Couldn't be happier with the change.

 

[lordrobs]

To be fair we get a pretty decent deal so I try not to take the mickey. They expect us to do =<200 miles and claim at the HMRC rate, anything over that we still claim at the HMRC rate but we get to expense any public charging. So pretty fair.

That seems extremely good!

No way our new finance chap would go for that unfortunately, not that I'm due another change for years now anyway.