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Interestingly enough I just read about that about two hours ago – might be added to my investigation and decision making – ie will that replace my ohme charger for free – I suspect not – but worth an ask.
Interestingly enough I just read about that about two hours ago – might be added to my investigation and decision making – ie will that replace my ohme charger for free – I suspect not – but worth an ask.
Well I don’t know how long Ohme got the contract for but given the competitiveness of Octopus I wouldn’t be at all surprised to see them popping up as a scheme supplier of chargers at some point.
Got to better than Hypervolt v2 and their non existent coming next quarter Octopus integration
Have patience my friend 😉
The Bluelink app that I use with the Kona is great for pre conditioning the car – hot or cold – like I said swop to the Elroq end of July – I understand the Škoda app is quite good too – but like most of these things I won’t really know until I use it for real.
There does seem to be a trend of wall charger to tie you in with a specific energy provider.The Skoda App is pants, they keep blocking API access to other people like Octopus etc.
Some Skoda’s can still use the Ohme App as before, plug in, set charge to 80% or whatever level you want and it will automatically charge during whatever cheap times are available.
Others, like mine now, have to wait until 11:30pm as there is no option to set a start charging time on the Ohme App, as soon as you confirm connection it tries to charge. We now have to set a percentage to add by a given time, as long as it’s no later than 9 to 11am it will (should?) charge at the lower rate.
I’ve tried using the cars own system using the Ohme charger as a dumb unit, it failed to charge at all twice in the first couple of weeks, usually the Skoda servers going down or just poor software.
Pre-conditioning can also be a pain in the bum, multiple times the App won’t connect to the car in case the 12v battery gets depleted, if I remember correctly it only allows 3 connections a day, even when it’s never been connected for days it still refuses to connect. I then have to go out and drive the car a few feet forwards/backwards so the App thinks the car is OK to connect with.
Please excuse spelling/typos. Apart from being a clot it turns out I had one on my cerebellum that's now causing various problems!
Hi Phaedra
Thanks for feedback – the Elroq is on the ohme list – favourite at the moment looks like I will stay with OVO and ohme – but I will still check out the options at the end of this month – I don’t do a big mileage so the cost of general use of gas and electricity is an important part of the equation – the convenience of de icing and cooling the car I find so useful and my past the sell by date knees definitely appreciate it 😂👍
This one shows costs and style but doesn’t say if the cost is installed or not. £899 untethered and £999 tethered.
If you havnt had it before you can take the government grant off that price
£350 grant only applies to renters and flat owners & households with on-street parking.
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