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Ohme Home Pro EV car charger installed for just £499 (while stocks last) @ Octopus energy
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I've been looking for a decent EV home charge point with great APP & reviews and came across this deal. This EV charger works in conjunction with the Octopus GO & Active Tarriffs.
Get an Ohme Home Pro charger installed for just £499 (while stocks last). BASED ON BEING ELIGIBLE FOR THE £350 OZEV grant.
Zappi or instavolt EV charger quoted recently to me at both over £1000 fitted.
Unlike many other EV home chargers this one has great reviews & no earth rod required.
Want to know more of the tech-y stuff? Here's the spec:
OFFER CRITERIA
This includes the cost of the charger with a standard Octopus Energy Services installation, and includes the £350 government OZEV grant (which we'll apply for on your behalf).
In order to qualify you need to meet the criteria for a standard installation (which most do) and be in the South or South East region, as that's where the Octopus installation team is based (for the time being).
If its not a standard installation or you're not in this area, you'll still be able to get an Ohme Home Pro installed, but the price might be a little bit higher.
We'll be able to let you know whether you qualify for the offer, once you've answered our initial questions.
Access to an EV charger at home helps you to charge quickly and conveniently, and make the most of low-cost energy tariffs, created especially for EV drivers. We've partnered with EV charging expert Ohme to bring you their new Home Pro charger at an exclusive price of £499, when installed by our award winning Octopus engineers
Getting an EV charging point installed at home means you’ll be able to plug in conveniently overnight, just like you do with your mobile phone, to ensure your car is always topped up.
It's possible to charge a car with a 3-pin plug, but getting a home charger will be much quicker. All cars are different, but very roughly, a dedicated charge point will charge at 2-4 x the speed of a normal plug.
And when linked to a smart EV tariff like Octopus Go, you can pick the cheapest, greenest hours to charge your car to reduce the cost to around 1 pence per mile - that's 1/10 of the cost to fill up a traditional car.
Limited Availability.
Get an Ohme Home Pro charger installed for just £499 (while stocks last). BASED ON BEING ELIGIBLE FOR THE £350 OZEV grant.
Zappi or instavolt EV charger quoted recently to me at both over £1000 fitted.
Unlike many other EV home chargers this one has great reviews & no earth rod required.
Want to know more of the tech-y stuff? Here's the spec:
- Fast charging at 7kW (about 25 mi/hr)
- Type 2 connector (so works with nearly all EV's)
- 3G/4G connectivity (easy to set up, no wifi issues)
- 5m tethered cable (easy to use, just plug in and go)
- In-built earthing (no need for a separate earth rod)
- Dynamic power balancing (for efficient use of power)
- Smart controls from the app or LCD screen
OFFER CRITERIA
This includes the cost of the charger with a standard Octopus Energy Services installation, and includes the £350 government OZEV grant (which we'll apply for on your behalf).
In order to qualify you need to meet the criteria for a standard installation (which most do) and be in the South or South East region, as that's where the Octopus installation team is based (for the time being).
If its not a standard installation or you're not in this area, you'll still be able to get an Ohme Home Pro installed, but the price might be a little bit higher.
We'll be able to let you know whether you qualify for the offer, once you've answered our initial questions.
Access to an EV charger at home helps you to charge quickly and conveniently, and make the most of low-cost energy tariffs, created especially for EV drivers. We've partnered with EV charging expert Ohme to bring you their new Home Pro charger at an exclusive price of £499, when installed by our award winning Octopus engineers
Getting an EV charging point installed at home means you’ll be able to plug in conveniently overnight, just like you do with your mobile phone, to ensure your car is always topped up.
It's possible to charge a car with a 3-pin plug, but getting a home charger will be much quicker. All cars are different, but very roughly, a dedicated charge point will charge at 2-4 x the speed of a normal plug.
And when linked to a smart EV tariff like Octopus Go, you can pick the cheapest, greenest hours to charge your car to reduce the cost to around 1 pence per mile - that's 1/10 of the cost to fill up a traditional car.
Limited Availability.
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Edited by ShaneDarch, 10 October 2021
177 Comments
sorted byYes! Prices fixed for a year from contract start date.
£199 installed
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I'd go for this if 5m would do (and if I still needed one).
Sure, if you're charging a 100kwh car from 0 to 100% at 16p/kwh (which is my daytime rate with octopus go faster) that's £16. Sounds expensive, but that'll take you at least 300 miles and the equivalent in petrol for a 50mpg car (and plenty of cars aren't that efficient) is £37.50. You can do nothing to make petrol any cheaper, it's out of your control. With an EV you can get cheaper tariffs to bring the cost down to £5 or even lower by generating it yourself with solar panels and storing it with home batteries. Before someone says they're not cheap see what the panels and batteries cost without skilled labour. I've seen 300W panels for £100 plus delivery, 1kwh of lifepo4 cells for £100 from china.
yep, its inevitable that taxation will come. But for now the benefits in £££ of owning an EV are (for most people) quite real. By the time taxation reduces that benefit we won't have a choice but to own an EV, so its kinda a non-issue
This is correct information, I have Octopus Go and a charge from 0% to 100% takes about 4 1/2 hours. Times to begin at 12.30am to 4.30am at 5p kw/h. Then another half an hour at standard rate. Total cost for 190 miles is about £1.90
Got the Installation done yesterday, took good 3.5 hours, and Installation team delivered top notch service.
I have one and it works fine with the Go tariff. Pod-Points can now be set to only enable charging at certain times in case your vehicle does not support this.
But you can get an untethered Pod Point and buy an Ohme type 2 cable for £199
Indeed free “renewable” can be readily used for charging an EV. I have a 4kw solar installation and from March to October my car is fuelled probably 90-95% of the time from free solar energy. November to February though I have to use Octopus energ
They have increased the peak rate unit charge from about 15p to 25p per kw for new contracts. But Go still offers 4 hours at 5p per kw every night. In those 4 hours most EV owners would be able to put about 100 miles of fuel into their car for a total cost of about £1.25
Current gen electric cars will depreciate hugely in 3-5 years as people realise they can only get less than 100 miles from them.
Difficult choice. Pod point can run over WiFi this ohme runs over 3G/4G and after three year you will lose app connectivity unless you you take out some sort of plan with them I assume.
I don’t own an electric car, but I’d have to argue that being able to fill up the car at home is convenient *most* of the time, rather than having to drive to a petrol station. Particularly in the light of recent events, that caused (amongst other things) lots of congestion on local roads. I do live in a rural area though and it’s a 10-15 min drive to the nearest filling station, assuming they have stock! So that might skew my views.
But I do agree with your assessment of costs though.
The 'Go' tariff is still between 4.5p/kWh and 5.5p/kWh (I have 5 hours @5.5p starting 8.30pm until 1.30am every day). I save a small fortune as I run all the white goods (and often cook) as well as charge up the EV and fill up my home storage battery.
Savings depend on the ability to 'shift' your energy use periods.
The rest of the time the rate is now closer to the standard variable tariff.. But overall the savings can be amazing (depending on your use and lifestyle). you also earn 3.5p/kWh for any Solar excess/export (if you doont get the FIT)
Not where I live. Most chargers are free. Park it in the station on my way to work and it’s charged when I get home AND I get free parking as well. So actually I’m not only up on fuel, I’m up £2.50 a day on parking by driving an electric car. I used to spend £60 a week on fuel, so currently saving £290 a month. Nothing inconvenient or expensive about that.
Ironically home chargers (single phase) deliver around 21 miles per hour (I am being general here for simplicity!).
This is called 'Fast' Charging.
Basically if you are parked up at home you don't need 'Rapid' chargers. Rapid chargers use 3 phase and can deliver lots of miles in a short period of time (anywhere between 100-300 in an hour). The 300 miles in an hour is an extreme!
These 'Rapid' chargers are the type you generally see along main routes/Motorway services etc... They generally cost a LOT more to use then charging at home (5p at home could be 30p or up to 70p per kWh). You are paying for the Convenience and the speed.. The rapid charge units can cost up to £250k but generally are around £70-100k!
Having a home charger is the cheapest option. It uses your existing domestic electricity supply and generally only a run of armour cable, a new breaker in your fuse box and (possibly) an up-rated main fuse for your property...
Just to confuse things a little more the 'on board' electronics will dictate how fast your car can charge. The general rule is the more expensive the car the faster it can charge!
Also you want to consider your everyday needs and add on some extra range just in case.. ie if you only travel 20 miles a day you dont really 'need' a 250 mile range MG 5 (you might want one.. that is different).
Again the decision on the range is dictated by the vehicles battery capacity (and to a lesser degree efficiency). Again if you only do 20 miles in a day you need to work out if its worth buying a car that can 400+ miles in a day.. The issue is that (generally) the more range you get, the bigger the battery size is, the bigger the vehicle tends to be and of course the price also increases quite dramatically too.. a low range second hand Nissan Leaf can be bought for under £4000... but a new Mercedes EQS with 485 miles will set you back about £100k!
You are the only person that can decide on your range and budget requirements etc...
I hope this helps a little ..
It does confirm eligibility and allow you to order/pay if you're not, so I'd be curious to know when that part would kick in
edit: nothing to suggest it's for Octopus customers only in any of the T&Cs or offers (edited)
Pod points cannot work with the octopus agile tarriff & app is somewhat behind the Ohme one.
This is my choice, getting 2 fitted on my new driveway
They haven’t changed their prices, by far the cheapest on the market for me
They have been hacked with a RaspberryPi computer inside as published in an article by the BBC. Testing was done by an independent security lab. Not worth the risk. I’m also aware of a mate’s HyperVolt that went up in flames. And I’ve heard rumours of another incident but I’ve not seen it myself. Would not risk it.
I’ve also spoken to one installer who doubts that their product has been tested properly for EMC and Safety regulations. (edited)
You need to be able to present a electric car order doc to get the OLEZ grant.
Where are you getting your figures from?
We can charge our car for under £3 and get around 200 miles currently, 230miles in summer.
Cheap as chips!
Yup. The only caveat being I schedule all charging between 00:30 and 4:30 when the electricity is 5p per kwh.
Which means if I were to do a full charge of the 64kwh battery it would actually be £3.20 from emtpy to full.
We don't do mega miles and it's our only car and we've only had to charge from public chargers twice when visiting family in the last 6 months.
So far total convert to electric cars and won't be going back.
I'm still getting 5p per kWh off-peak.
Will be interesting to see what happens to EV charger installation quotes after the grant ends. I don't think prices changed hugely after the initial reduction in the government OLEV grant from £500 to £350?
I think it's unlikely the installation quotes will go up to around the £1000 mark after the grant ends, suspect they'll stay around the current price as I got the impression there's a fair margin already included for the installer with the current prices, and a reasonable bit of the price was for all the admin faff of sorting out the OLEV application.
But I might be wrong
Yup agree but I reckon for most people it's not a good option, even if it's easily the cheapest per usable kWh. Hope that doesn't sound arrogant and to be honest I was over confident with the whole thing. A raw 200Ah16s pack discharging at 1C is potentially lethal. It's same ballpark as domestic 60a mains for example. Think having 4 big hob rings on max simultaneously for an hour to get an idea of the total energy of the pack if something goes wrong.
I realise you know you what you're doing but < boring mode> I just want to warn HUKD people these cheap batteries are not all swings and roundabouts even if the financial payback is much more attractive than a Tesla PowerWall! Having said that my pack is now slurping up 6kWh for ETH mining and WFH tomorrow
Don't get a Hypervolt lol. They're a joke and use a standard Raspberry Pi for their system, there are holes in the casing to 'cool it' which makes it less waterproof. They seem to spend far more on marketing and paid reviews (if you look on YouTube most are 'paid promotion' than on engineering
Was slightly non-standard install (meter in porch so bloke needed to get some 6mm T&E+trunking) but did without a fuss. I did expect a teeth sucker and "That'll cost you more".
Bagain for £500 I think.
Just need energy priced to calm so that switching to an EV tariff can be done to make the most of the Ohme unit. (edited)
For that price though, think I'd accept that!
I've looked at it but if you read the FACEBOOK page the product is riddled with issues. And the company is growing at a scary rate so back up seems to be slipping. No doubt it'll be great but it's wether you can live with the growing pains like the wi fi and app issues.
Ive originally booked a zappi but this price is seriously making me think twice as its half the installed price.
Tempted to switch to it, so wanted to find out.
Sorry - Simply Not true!
There is no limitation on the length of time you use it for.
There is no subscription service add on after 2 or 3 years..
The level of data sent via the Sim is minuscule compared to normal phone/data use.and as long as you own the charger there is nothing more to pay...
Beware that some EV manufacturers WILL charge you for continued network/sim access for your vehicle!.. Im not sure if that is what you were thinking of?
It's the offical hypervolt owners group page. With hypervolt team members heavily involved with the page.
facebook.com/groups/hypervoltowners/?ref=share
Have a look.... Its trying to be an APPLE type product that looks great but is still in its infancy of development and has a number of major issues that seem to be taking longer to sort as the brand grows.
I was going to buy one... Believing the hype and the paid for install YouTube video's until I read all the current owners problems. (edited)