EV tariff if no EV...

[Tom]

So, has anyone experience of signing up for an EV tariff if they don't have an EV? Octopus asking for make/model and charger make. I can easy enough find the former, but I would guess i need to indicate i have a "dumb" charger - or is it just easier to say i charge via a 13amp plug?

[JohnMo]

Don't have to have a charger on the wall, a 13A plug will do it. If you have a heat pump, would cosy maybe cheaper overall?

[Tom]

Hmmm, I think it makes more sense, but check my working: with the Cosy tariff it's 8hrs at 14.2p/kWh versus 5hrs (at night) at 8.5p for the Go - so a bit cheaper for the EV tariff and you avoid the premium rate of 3hrs at 43.45p in the evenings. (we only need the ASHP on for 4hrs or so)

We have 13kW PV on the roof, so often during the day we import very little/none (and virtually none every day for 5 months or so from spring-autumn), and the night time rate will make a good dint in the import we can't reduce with the PV.

Does that seem reasonable thinking?

 

[Bramco]

4 hours ago, Tom said:

So, has anyone experience of signing up for an EV tariff if they don't have an EV? Octopus asking for make/model and charger make. I can easy enough find the former, but I would guess i need to indicate i have a "dumb" charger - or is it just easier to say i charge via a 13amp plug?

 

A while ago, on application, you could either connect a charger or and EV(by make and model).

 

Now the interface asks for the make/model of the vehicle and doesn't allow for linking a charger even though you may not know the make/model of any vehicles that would use the charger, e.g. visitors, carers, children etc.  You can still ask for them to link with a charger however, here's a page where you can do this (not sure if it still works of course) -> https://octopus.typeform.com/to/rK8at31n#account_number=xxxxx&email=xxxxx

 

There was some discussion on the MyEnergi forum about which models of vehicle Octopus can connect with and someone on there suggested that if you wanted to go down the linking to a vehicle route, you simply chose a make/model that they couldn't connect with. I'll bet an AI can tell you which ones...