Have a question regarding adding an EV charger to my current setup, apologies if it’s been asked and answered before!
I have a Givenergy Inverter and battery used to draw energy from rooftop solar panels. We’ve currently got Octopus Go, which I use mainly to charge our Kuga PHEV overnight, and top up the battery, in the 5 hr cheap unit rate that this tariff gives us every night.
Going to order an Enyaq BEV in the next month or so, I’m wondering the best way to integrate the Ohme EV charger into this setup… I’ve seen suggestions that the best way to ensure that plugging in the EV doesn’t drain the battery (usually used to supply the cheap rate from charge to the house the next day) is to get it wired in on the grid supply side so that the inverter isn’t aware of it?
I’m assuming that wiring it on the other side would make it pretty complex or impossible to manage in terms of the inverter talking to the charger and able to supply power at times of my choosing.
In any case I plan to move to Intelligent Octopus Go at the time to get a longer charging window overnight.
Hope this makes sense… still trying to get my head round it all!