Makes you think why isn't all electricity 7p a Kwh...clearly just getting ripped off
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OVO Energy Charge Anytime EV Tarrif Add-On: 7p per kWh
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I previously posted a deal about the OVO Charge Anytime EV Tarrif add on, whereby if you're an OVO Customer, you can add on the "Charge Anytime" feature to your account, and then by using either a compatible charger or compatible car, you were previously able to charge at £0.10p per kWh instead of the current Gov Cap rate of £0.27p per kWh.
I've just had a further email through from OVO that from tomorrow, it's going to be further reduced to 7p per kWh, so a further 30% reduction from what it was before.
To put that into context, if you drive an EV with a 75 kWh battery, it will cost you around £5.25 to fully charge from 0% to 100%. (7p x 75)
Terms and conditions here
List of compatible cars and chargers here
Hope this helps someone!
I've just had a further email through from OVO that from tomorrow, it's going to be further reduced to 7p per kWh, so a further 30% reduction from what it was before.
To put that into context, if you drive an EV with a 75 kWh battery, it will cost you around £5.25 to fully charge from 0% to 100%. (7p x 75)
Terms and conditions here
List of compatible cars and chargers here
Hope this helps someone!
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Edited by francis247uk, 31 October 2023
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because it costs energy companies a lot more than 7p a kwh to supply most of the day.
This is for off-peak hours in the day / week that are much cheaper and greener for them to supply. It's an incentive to take EV charging away from peak hours.
I’ve received the email too.. I wonder if octopus will drop the price of theirs too, they were already at 7.5p kw/h on a night for about 6 hours
But octopus covers the whole house during the 6 hours. We switch on the washing machine, tumble dryer, dishwasher, etc. overnight.
Terrible customer service. Avoid Ovo.
They charged me for electricity I hadn't used even though the smart meter was removed months before! I reported them to Trust Pilot, they replied but STILL haven't done anything!
Ovo is the worst electricity provider ever! Their customer service team don't know what there doing and basically tell you a pack of lies just to get you off the phone.
I transferred to them to take advantage of the cheap charging deal. I received an email from them to say my transferred had been completed successfully. They took the first monthly direct debit. I tried to log into the app to set up the cheap charging but couldn't get in so I phoned customer service, they said it sometimes takes up to 10 working days for new accounts to be recognised and to call back if I was still unable to access my account of this time. The 10 days passed but still no access so I called back. They said I had the wrong sort of meter, I informed them that I had just had a new meter installed, they said I need to book a call with an engineer to have a new smart meter installed and currently there wait time in my area is around 10 weeks!!! I asked if I could book a call with the engineer and they said that was all done through the app, I explained that I was calling because I didn't have access to the app! They said they would look into it and get back to me. I called there customer service team every 2 days for the next couple of weeks just to be fobbed off with one excuse after another. I decided at this point that I would be better off with my old provider so I called customer service once more but was put through to the cancellation team. They said looking at there system it didn't appear that the transferred had been successful and that I had never been on contracted with them!!!! They said they would refund my firstly monthly payment in the next 5 working days and to not cancel my direct debit before receiving my refund. The next day they took another monthly payment out of my account!!!! So that's the best part of £500 they now had of my money. So I phoned customer service again, you can see where this is going by now, they said they would pay both payments back to me and offered me £25 compensation. I was sick of arguing by this stage and said I would give them 5 working days to get the money back into my account before seeking legal advice. The 2 monthly payment were back in my bank account on day 4, however I did not receive my compensation payment for the next 4 months, even after I called an emailed every week. In the end I had to threaten to take them to court before I finally received it.
Sometimes it is better the devil you know!!
Customer servcies are terrible. I swapped my faulty meters using my details but a few days later I was unable to get an issue sorted as I couldn't pass security . They lie and lie and lie could have sorted a mortgage quicker
Excellent. I can charge my MG4 up overnight for around £4.50 and get between 230-260 miles out of that charge.
Great saving compared to dinosaur fuels aren't they? Comparable petrol car would be £50 or so for the same range.
What's the day rate and the std day charge?
AuthorThere is no increase with this product on the standard variable tariff (default tariff) Gov Cap day rate of 27p per kWh (since 1st October) or the 53p daily standing charge (edited)
Is there an adaptor somewhere so you can then plug an extension lead in and run the entire house on it for 7p per KWH?
On my wishlist too:)- Can you route the power from this to run other appliances at the 7p price?
Maybe you can charge your tablets/phones in the car while it's charging up? 
Being using this flawlessly for about 6 months now with my Model 3, I don't have a dedicated charger installed so just use the granny charger with it. It's nice it's come down even further in price, driving is now costing me < 2p per mile :-).
It hooks into the Tesla API to schedule and record your charging then discounts it from your bill. I never had to deal with OVO customer services, so can't really comment on that, but from what I understand they are pretty shoddy. But, for me, everything always just worked.
so how does this work exactly?
how does the car know when to charge greenest and not to?
can I charge a house battery with this? (edited)
With Intelligent Octopus you can charge a house battery, as all electricity will be 7.5p between 11.30pm and 5.30am. Not sure about OVO.
After a few years on a dedicated EV tariff (octopus go faster) moved to Octopus Tracker for Elec and no regrets so far.
Since July I have averaged 17.5p, we use around 80kwh a week charging the car and 80kwh a week powering the house.
So it's 10p more to charge but 10p less to power the house and no longer having to work around the cheap rate overnight, can now tumble and wash clothes at anytime. So worth doing to the maths around your personal usage patterns and daily needs.- Welcome to the new Economy7. The grid has to balance production and consumption. Whilst the price to households do not vary, as the energy provider (ovo etc) fixes the price, the grid price does, minute by minute. At some times, the grid price goes negative - they pay YOU to use more energy, in order to balance the grid and coincidentally, charge energy producers such as wind turbines to reduce production. Only certain companies can do this, usually places with large battery installations, hydro-electric dams etc or in this case, a company with hundreds of thousands of car batteries plugged in.
However this doesn't mean the price will definitely be 7p/kwh!! It's only when the grid is producing too much energy or at a significantly lower price, typically at night. If you tell the app you need the car ready by 9am, yet at 5am, it isn't ready, your eV will just charge up at the full electricity rate.
Their 75% less costs claim isn't accurate either, as they are comparing a turbocharged petrol BMW 3 series, which is not the most economical car in it's class, which also doesn't take running costs into other costs either.
For example, I pay £1100 to travel 10k miles at 60mpg in my diesel car. But I pay less for insurance than a comparable eV. But then I pay more road tax.... however the biggest issue is depreciation. eV's and ICE typically lose around 40-60% of their value from new. A £20k ICE car, will end up at £8k 3 years down the line, losing £12k. A comparable eV costs more, around £30-35k, losing £18k, a £10k difference over 3 years. You either lose your cash or you pay significantly more for your finance, to save what... £750 a year? ICE works out far cheaper in this situation.
If you were to buy a used eV, that would flip the tables however, a problem with the drivetrain or battery would mean a very expensive headache and you'd still be better off with an ICE even though failures on eV's are very low.
Exactly.
I bought my used Leaf for £7k. Costs me 0.3pence per miles in 'fuel', no road tax or maintenance costs in the last 2 years.
Just bought an 18 month old Kia e-Niro and saved £12k off the new price.
Both do cost about 50% more to insure than our outgoing ICE cars. But overall still massively cheaper to run than our previous ICE.
As you say EVs are generally very reliable and the KIA has warranty for another 5.5 years just in case.
We tend to keep our cars until 10 years old, so depreciation per year works out low.
The Qhasqai was £1330 per year. My UP! was £500 per year.
We have PV on our roof and home battery and on Octopus Go so paying 9 pence per kWh for cheap rate. - I've managed to change our British gas tariff to an electric vehicle one so charging between 12-5am is 9.4p per kw/h rather than the standard 27p. So decent saving, ours is only a renault captur plug in hybrid anyway so only does 35 miles ish on electric. 9 kw/h battery, 90p ish. Much better than our petrol vw t roc which doing the same mileage costs £7.47 if my maths is correct...i know it's not as good a deal by 2p as this one but next best thing if you're unable or unwilling to go to ovo. Just my 2p worth (edited)Wow that is a decent range (35mi) for a 9 kwh battery.
My hybrid c-class barely manages 10 or 12 miles with a 6.4 kwh battery pack 
If you're a new user then you can only access with an Ohme or Indra charger......and limited number of vehicles (which surprisingly doesn't include Hyundai).
Charge Anytime EVs and Smart Chargers | OVO Energy
Just to make your post clears - you need a compatible EV OR compatible charger - not both
Awesome, more savings. I virtually drive my tesla for free.
You must be a taxi driver.
Why can't you charge a house battery for this price then?
Hard to find any sense of it isn't it
Great price - 27p and 7p for anytime charging. GreatAs I understand it, it’s not any time really is it? You can stick it on charge any time, but it will only charge if there is extra electricity on the grid or if the demand is low. So, you car could be plugged in for hours during the day, yet not charge? That’s my understanding of it. Is that correct? That’s how it seems to work for me. Or am I missing a trick?
RE questions above, for rates tied into your EV Vehicle, the Supplier app talks to the vehicle app so if you have a BMW EV the apps handshake via a compatible charger which kind of like confirms the amount of KW used during the cheaper period (is a intelligent charger).
ROI is longer but if you really want to use intelligent tariffs - you need a battery that you charge up during the the cheaper periods that allow it and then use that during the day when the electricity is more expensive. Put solar panels into the mix and this changes the game again.
Absolutely the worst customer service I've ever encountered among energy suppliers. I'd avoid it if I were you.
It’s a trap. Get everyone on a vehicle that relies on the national grid….nothing could go wrong there at all could it.The grid can cope, so long as we don't all want to charge at the same time. Which is what smart chargers are for...
Is there a way to plug my house into my EV charger?
That’s not going to help you.
Handouts for the rich once again.Why only the rich? And why is it a handout when they still pay?- Don't forget the charging losses, when calculating how much it costs to charge up your EV. (edited)Also the range is way less than advertised on all vehicles (EV's and petrol / diesel cars). This further Complicates real cost comparison.
Been using this for a few months now and it's working really well. You get a credit applied to the bill each month to reflect the savings. The credit is around £85 / month for me, so well worth the move if you have a compatible car / charger. The rate for general household usage is no more than the price cap so win-win.
Is a smart meter required to have this tariff
Yeah they list a smart meter as a requirement.
Like it. One day ev owners will be able to charge cheap at night then use the vehicle to power their homes ✌️ ️
We need a eV battery cable to house electricity meter.- Just checked, we have an easee car charger, apparently it won't work with those :/
Not sure how it works but I’ve got an Easee and a Skoda and it works perfectly. Think it takes it from the car though. 
I have both compatible charger and vehicle plus am an Ovo customer but apparently not currently available.
is it the car charger that knows when its on a ev tarrif assuming you would need a smart meter ?I think Octopus beats this tariff hands down to be honest- I pay £20 for 100 miles in my 1.2 Nissan Qashqai 18 regAnd based on my average EV per mile cost of 0.3pence per mile, would cost me 30pence.
Think I’ll stick with my Octopus Go- My EV won’t arrive until March next year. I guess I can’t add this onto my account to lock in the price until as I would need car and charger details?
The charger might get installed soon though, would that let me add this tariff on earlier?
I’m in the same situation just ordered a Toyota bz4x and won’t get it till beginning of feb 24 I’m currently on British Gas pay as you go standard tariff 26.1p kwh 
Unless you’re driving very high mileage, I think Octopus Intelligent would suit more people because you have a fixed nighttime off peak rate that isn’t link to the car. It’s slightly more expensive on the unit rates than OVO (7.5 vs 7p) but we benefit a lot from being able to run a tumble dryer, dishwasher etc at night.Yeah my British gas one is 9p over night. No biggy though, only 2p per kwh
How much is the standing charge? really irks me when I use no gas, very little electric but still pay nearly 80p per day just to have them. standing charge is a right scamEven if using no Elec or gas, if there was a leak on the Gas main or your meter packed in then would you prefer to foot the bill yourself or share it with all other energy users. With these storm conditions no doubt many powerlines will be damaged, again it could be your property, could you afford the repair costs as a one off charge.
Not saying the SC is perfect and get the sentiment but 80p a day is surely better being shared then having a one off pay as you go charge for maintenence and repair.
The market is broken
We should pay
Live wholesale eletricity prices (average 9.7p this year)
Plus live grid prices (which will be £zero 99% of the time and only not zero if you are in a congested area/location because your neighbours protested about that new substation at the bottom of the road)
Plus a fixed admin/profit which is for things like billing and enquires/help
Using this method marginal eletricity consumption 99% of thr time would be wholesale prices which are likely to be ~8p a unit going forward. With eletricity that cheap we would see a rapid deployment of heat pumps and EVs. Not so much at 30p a unit
The above wasn't possible in the analogue age when the grid and systems were set up. But it would be easy in the digital age
As things stand, already in 2023 we have vast amounts of wind power curtailed (just turned off) as the analogue grid wants you to pay 30p a unit even for marginal free wind carried over marginal free transmission and distribution capacity. With the digital method above you'd pay zero for such energy and your gas boiler can ramp down and an eletric element provide your heating for those periodsNo idea what you said
So lucky to have these companies, living in Northern Ireland we get completely ripped off our off peak is 16.5p per kwh
Yes the car must be plugged in- I have ohme epod and it is not on the compatible list ?It's compatible my friend, I've got the epod and working perfectly
Saw this 3 weeks ago and clicked through for it to say “you are compatible with the tariff. Ok, so then put through my request for a switch from British Gas (standard tariff) to Ovo happening on the 1st December.
Prior to switch, tried to take this EV add on and it said that I had to wait for account details to be activated. Once I received details, tried again and went through questionnaire about my EV and it said “I need to get a smart metre installed before I can use it because the BG one is not compatible”. Phoned them (around 20th Nov) to book a smart meter appointment to take place as as soon as the 1st December switch takes place and they said until switch happens they can’t access my account to book a smart meter.
Switch happened on 1st December and yesterday I was able to access my account. Went to the EV add on sign up and it said “sorry your vehicle is not compatible with the service, we are adding more vehicles all the time and will let you know”. I drive a Jaguar I-pace.
Have they literally just conned me into transferring my whole energy to them from British Gas?
A petrol/diesel car that averages 50 mpg @ fuel price of £1.50/litre would cost £34 to cover the same 250 miles.