[Jojoe]

Just watched Money Saving Expert, Martin mentioned OVO charge anytime. It seems you plug in, tell them when you want the car charged by and it does it for 7p per kWh. Sounds good unless, of course, there’s no cheap electricity when you plug in. Anyone on this tariff got any experience?

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[Vinnie]

I’m on OVO  anytime, 7p a unit, the difference between the unit price is deducted off my bill at the end of the month, as I’m charged full price per kWh. I’m also on a 1y fixed deal, for me it’s great, not bothered about getting cheap electric overnight and I like to be able to charge the car anytime of day.

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[Matty M]

From what I understand, you always get the electricity for 7p/kWh (in the form of a bill credit).

if you tell OVO you need it charged in 8 hours and it will take 8 hours, it will start charging immediately even if electricity is expensive for them at the moment – but you won’t pay any extra.

if you tell OVO you need it charged in 24 hours, they will hold the charge until electricity is cheaper for them, but will make sure the car is charged for when you specified.

[Jojoe]

Sounds like a good deal, I don’t like leaving the car charging overnight, think I’ll move when my BG deal is up in a few months.

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[joss]

I think OVO are a good energy company, As outlined in some of the above posts vor EV charging. Great customer service. I have just moved on to OVO’s customer loyalty fixed 12 month contract due the massive increase due in March.

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Current car: BMW X2 sDrive 20i M Sport 5dr Step Auto In metallic Portimão Blue. 04:10:2025
Previous car:Peugeot 308 GT Premium 1.2 Pure tech Petrol.

[Jojoe]

Martin Lewis said last night he expects the energy price to fall if there’s an end to the war in Ukraine, the spot price for gas has already started to fall. Most of our electricity is produced from gas so the electric price will also fall.

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[joss]

Umm fingers crossed,eh…

Joss
Current car: BMW X2 sDrive 20i M Sport 5dr Step Auto In metallic Portimão Blue. 04:10:2025
Previous car:Peugeot 308 GT Premium 1.2 Pure tech Petrol.

[Mike Cooper]

Been with Ovo for 10 weeks now (first ev for me so completely new Ovo customer) and found the experience very good I would say.Its not exactly ‘charge anytime’ but I plug in about 8pm and charging will usually be scheduled and commence at 9pm as I assume the grid price is still too high to start charging at 8pm,charging target has always been reached by 8.00am the next morning.You won’t get any cheap charging at peak times (breakfast,dinner and teatime) but I have got the odd hour or two at the cheap rate between 9.30 and 11.30am and from 2.00 and 4.00pm.Also the peak rate you are charged remains the same wether you are on the ‘charge anytime’ tariff or just a plain old non ev customer,which is excellent as I believe quite a few of the other companies that provide ev tariffs charge more for peak rate usage.Overall impressed so far but still a relative newby!

[Adrian_H]

While the OVO Anytime price is competitive with that from other providers, only Eon Next Drive is lower in my region,  it is an add on to any other OVO tariff and I couldn’t find a way to find unit prices for those. I can get a quote based on  usage but what I want to do is compare the standing charge and per kwh for each OVO tariff with that of my Octopus IOG tariff. Eon Next Drive for example is 6.7 per KWH for EV charging where IOG is 7p KWH, but the unit charge for other usage is higher than IOG . I use more energy for other things than I do for charging so on balance Octopus IOG is still lower total cost.

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