Hi Kezo, thanks for that.
I told Bumble bee, Ive not got solar and I’m with Octopus.
I phoned Octopus this afternoon asking about intelligent go tariff.
They asked which car I’d ordered, I said ŠKODA Elroq, they said it doesn’t talk to intelligent go tariff but if charger does that may be ok. I didn’t realise the car had to do this.
I put it to Octopus, 6 hours overnight @ 7Kw can only put in 42 Kw, they said it wouldn’t as it doesn’t charge continuously, it dips in and out according to grid load. It’s a guess as to how much you’ll get but if you wanted to plug in at say 6 pm, if there’s any spare capacity before 11.30 it will charge. So not very good, no going out just incase. Added to this the Intelligent tariff is a few pence dearer on all your other usage along with being 3p a day dearer standing charge. They said I could always bump charge at anytime, this would be at full cost!!
with this info I phoned Motability, they didn’t realise electric cars had to be compatible with the energy supplier. They also didn’t realise you don’t get a constant charge on energy companies cheap rate. They sympathised and suggested topping up at normal full price rate. I said this wasn’t acceptable and Im reviewing my choice to go electric.
Any thoughts greatly appreciated.
Regards, wonky