EV's and best Tarrif
Posted: November 9th, 2023, 6:04 pm
My present fixed electric tarrif comes to an end soon, so Im free to move to wherever, but over the last few months a lots changed so im looking for others views and experiances
Our setup is an elctric car with a 7kw home charger - we also have solar and batterys - over the summer the solar can charge the batterys and keep the car fairly well charged so we buy next to nothing from the grid - thats the easy bit .
In the winter the solar can keep the house going in the daytime, but by 7 or 8pm anything stored in the batterys is used up and we have to draw from the mains to charge the car and run the house overnight.
going forward it looks like theres 2 options , 1 is to go with someone like octopus or OVO where you get a tarif where they control the car charging at a low rate of something like 7p per KWH , or 2. go with someone like EDF, British Gas or Eon who give you x number of hours at 10p per KWH usualy overnight so you can charge the car or do whatever you want
looking at our batterys I can command them to charge up from the grid at preset times so im undecided if to go for the cheaper charge the car only tarrif or if to go for the slightly more expensive tarrif where i can charge the car at night plus fill the batterys up with the hope of running the house throughout the day with a mixture of solar and cheap battery power
if it makes any diffrence , we are both retired and the car is often at home for most or part of the day - we only use it to go shopping , and out for the odd days
Has anyone got any experiance of either or any views on which is best ?
Our setup is an elctric car with a 7kw home charger - we also have solar and batterys - over the summer the solar can charge the batterys and keep the car fairly well charged so we buy next to nothing from the grid - thats the easy bit .
In the winter the solar can keep the house going in the daytime, but by 7 or 8pm anything stored in the batterys is used up and we have to draw from the mains to charge the car and run the house overnight.
going forward it looks like theres 2 options , 1 is to go with someone like octopus or OVO where you get a tarif where they control the car charging at a low rate of something like 7p per KWH , or 2. go with someone like EDF, British Gas or Eon who give you x number of hours at 10p per KWH usualy overnight so you can charge the car or do whatever you want
looking at our batterys I can command them to charge up from the grid at preset times so im undecided if to go for the cheaper charge the car only tarrif or if to go for the slightly more expensive tarrif where i can charge the car at night plus fill the batterys up with the hope of running the house throughout the day with a mixture of solar and cheap battery power
if it makes any diffrence , we are both retired and the car is often at home for most or part of the day - we only use it to go shopping , and out for the odd days
Has anyone got any experiance of either or any views on which is best ?