Struth I already have a 5.8 kWh solar battery which has reduced my energy cost dramatically, problem is on a good day we generate more than we can use and store, it is very painful watching all that power going back to the grid, then having to pay 3 times the price to import it back , at least I am balancing the grid. The alternative is to replace the existing Pod Point EV charger with one of these smart EV charger at a £1,000 a pop ?
Oscarmax I got myself a Zappi solar charger when I got my house battery, it’s early days yet but I do think it’s going to work well when we get into the high solar months. I realised I was doing the same as you and putting a lot of electricity back into the grid and buying it back expensive. Battery and Zappi charger have fixed that! Does this mean if I generate my electricity myself and charge the car with it that I win the efficiency test this thread is driving at?
I don’t think this thread is a efficiency test but it is nice to have some real world comparisons before we make these big financial decisions , as a bench mark a petrol car 50mpg using unleaded petrol £1.50 @ litre roughly work out 13.5 pence a mile, in reality unless you have a home charger and an EV tariff both an EV or PHEV does not make financial sense for all of us. We are due to change vehicles in June with the ever increasing energy prices we are so unsure be it a Hybrid or another PHEV. I would be interested how you get on with your new Zappi charger
Oscarmax absolutely agree and if I’m not careful it will become another one of those pro anti Ev threads
Very impressed with Zappi charger. Last year prior to battery installation I exported 5MwH of electricity and was paid a paltry 5p a kWh for it. My plan this year is to use the Zappi to top one of the EVs up with any excess solar. My routine at the moment is to charge the battery up overnight on Octopus Go cheap electricity. I then use a combination of solar and battery to power the house during the day when grid electricity is expensive. If the house load is covered, the battery is fully charged then the Zappi uses excess solar to charge Ev. These options can all be altered to suit. I’m now hardly exporting anything and soon I will use just solar to charge the battery as there will be enough to keep me off grid unless I need to quickly charge the card. Zappi brilliant for Ev not so sure for Phev.