Hive EV Charging - Alfen Eve S-Line Tethered Charger (excludes installation) + 12 months FreeCharge British Gas customers (max 2,290kWh)

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Hive EV Charger Alfen Eve S-Line Tethered (excludes installation) is reduced by £85 to £439 and includes a 2 year warranty. For those with a British Gas electricity tariff you can also get 12 months’ FreeCharge. Reading the terms of the offer, you will receive credit on your electricity bills to cover up to a max 2,290kWh of electricity consumed by the charge point in FreeCharge mode (approximately 8,000 miles). Would say thats worth at least £200/£250 benefit. Terms link

If you opt with installation is a further £500 but is optional if you know of someone that could do the installation for you.

Hive EV Charging - Alfen Eve S-Line Tethered Charger

With safety and reliability at the heart of its design, the Alfen Eve Single S-Line is housed in a weatherproof white casing. Able to fully charge an average battery from empty in under eight hours, it always has the latest features thanks to automatic over-the-air updates.
Available with expert installation by British Gas approved engineers, including a 3-year warranty (or 2 years when buying charger only).
Hive EV Charging puts you in control - anywhere, anytime. Charge your way with the award-winning Hive app.
Our charger works with all EVs with a Type 1 or Type 2 connection.
7.4 kW capacity to fully charge an average EV battery overnight.
Your choice of 5m or 7.5m cables, available tethered or untethered

Review here

12 months’ FreeCharge when you buy a Hive EV Charger

Fancy a year of free driving? FreeCharge uses our Smart Hive technology to intelligently schedule your charges at the quietest and greenest times of the day – and it won’t cost you a penny as we’ll reimburse you for all FreeCharge charges direct to your British Gas energy bill.³

All you need is:

A Hive EV Charger
Any British Gas electricity tariff - including if you switch
A Smart Meter
FreeCharge enabled via the Hive app

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16th Nov
does this must be installed by an electrician and require a set-up? or just wiring and plugging into a wall?
16th Nov
I have one, I got mine free with the car but British gas installed it. You have a right performance..
First they want to survey your property (when they get around to it). They cancelled 3 home visits and eventually we had a zoom call where I showed them the property. I then had to take a load of pictures, more pictures than Kim Kardashians had. Then you wait while they asses everything. They come back and give you a list of things (extras to buy) earthing / upgraded cable / something else I can't remember). Then they messaged a few days before installation and advised that I needed to get my supplier to upgrade the box outside (another month wait). Then they came back and said "fantastic you've had the upgrade, now we need to make sure the grid will allow you to have it" . Another 3 week wait, then that was cleared. They called up about a week later and gave me an install date - 6 weeks away. Some local sparky came around and installed it under a day.

TLDR - you 100% need a sparky to install and despite my hassle, I would still go for this even if I didn't have an electric car. The reason is that the grid won't let everyone on your street have a car charger so get one while you can.
17th Nov
I`m checking this site regularly for years without a post, but this time I had to register and post the 1st time.
I have this charger and I`ve got it through the lease company for FREE (charger + install included with the lease). It is a terrible and unreliable charger & SW. I`m glad that it was free, because it doesn`t worth any money in my opinion. I`m considering to get rid of it and pay for a proper decent charger instead.
20th Nov
I have the charger. If you had it installed with British gas via a subcontractor then PLEASE get them to check it for you. The reason I say this is because British gas are taking a company to court who they subcontracted the installation of EV chargers out to. Apparently the subbies made a complete mess of the majority of installs. I know this because we had a cowboy who didn't even install a fire rated box? and some other things. it was only by chance that British gas randomly picked my address via audit otherwise I wouldn't have known.
16th Nov
I almost went for this with a similar offer earlier this year as for 2023 this is a decent deal even with installation as despite what some may say at least where I am that is a good cost installed, however, unless this is an updated unit it needs a reliable 4g signal and doesn’t run off WiFi so just be a bit wary of that. Also being BG no doubt they will be quick to insist certain things need updating or will condemn them on install. That said it remains a good deal and again unless BG tariffs have moved on since I switched the only way to get good value EV charing if wanting BG as a supplier.
16th Nov
British Gas are just disgraceful to deal with. Their bills make no sense, customer service is unhelpful, monitoring is poor through the app etc. I would never go back to them even if it was cheaper.
16th Nov
Try rightcharge via carwow, getting an ohme epod installed for just over£800
16th Nov
Best check with your supplier of electricity first and your car to see if they need a compatible one to be used or not... some suppliers work better with some brands as they have integrations to give you automation to charge when cheaper rate etc...
17th Nov
That’s spot on. Some tariffs like Intelligent from Octopus require connection and compatibility with charger/EV.
16th Nov
I got mine installed via octopus (it's an Ohme charger) for £499 including installation
16th Nov
Recently? They seem to be from £900 installed now.
17th Nov
Need an EV charger as I got a polestar a few months back. I’m currently on British Gas but was planning to buy Ohme and get an electrician to install it. Then I can hopefully choose either OvO or Octopus Go (can’t get intelligent for some reason due to either car or area not sure) has anyone got any advice?
17th Nov
For intelligent you need either a compatible car or charger. You should be able to find a list on the octopus website but sometimes they aren't the quickest to update it. In terms of charge points ohme, zappi and wallbox are compatible. Not sure if it's just certain versions mind.
17th Nov
Bit of a minefield on EV charging tech.
Made harder with the off peak tariffs having stipulations.

Octopus Intelligent seem to be the best but you must have a car which they support or an Ohme charger.
Ohme chargers downfall is that it only has mobile connectivity. after 3 years you then need to find a SIM deal on HUKD :-) Others simply have wifi or an ethernet connection) (edited)
17th Nov
I think zappi and wallbox charge points are also now compatible
23rd Nov
Beware it’s not compatible with Octopus Intelligent, which is currently the cheapest tariff for a household with EV.
16th Nov
Great deal, but nobody can tempt me away from Octopus. If you know, you know
17th Nov
...what?
16th Nov
Shame installation isn't included. £500 is a huge charge
16th Nov
Too much (edited)
16th Nov
British gas are horrific with customer care. With so much negative feedback and unhappy customers, any other company would have been disallowed to trade or forced to be taken over from the likes of government enforced operators. They suck and they don't care.
The only people that seem happy with them are pensioners that have been with them years and well before they seem to stop caring. (edited)
16th Nov
Why only 2 year warranty? It should be 10 years at least. This whole EV business looks like companies are ripping us off. (edited)
16th Nov
Based on...? The only 10 year warranty I can think of instantly is the one Samsung invented to con people into buying one of their QLED TVs instead of a far superior OLED.

You wasn't one of those that fell for that were you?
16th Nov
I'd stay clear of getting British Gas to install. Took weeks even getting someone to do a virtual assessment then said they'd need to send someone out to check but had no timescale when someone available. Ended up getting it fitted in a few days with a local electrical company.
17th Nov
FreeCharge mode – mode activated in the Hive app in which we remotely schedule, at our
discretion, when your charge point charges an EV to reach its maximum battery level by the ‘Ready
by’ time you set. In this mode electricity consumed by your charge point is at no cost to you

they control when it reaches max battery - not sure how practical this is.
16th Nov
How much £/kWh to charge after the included 2,290kWh? That's only good for about 3 months for me
16th Nov
It's going to be whatever your tariff is for your house for the £/kWh
16th Nov
Not a deal I bought mine about 3 months ago when it wasn’t on “offer” paid the exact same price.
16th Nov
Did you get the 2,290 free kWh?
16th Nov
The standard price, given the installation cost, is another £400–500.
17th Nov
I’m looking at buying an electric car, my worry is, can someone steal your electricity? As in drive onto your drive and connect to this device and then use it? Or is there a padlock or PIN number before the electricity is used?
17th Nov
Dont know about this specific charge point but some do have this function. Although it seems very unlikely that anyone would do this as it takes hours to charge a car on a 7kW charge point. Generally folk that steal stuff like to be in and out as quick as possible. Siphoning petrol would be a lot quicker and would be worth more.
17th Nov
500 for install on a poor EV charger with BGas doing the work...no way. cold, can't wait until Octopus overtake them as largest, only then will they hopefully try harder.
17th Nov
Then Octopus will behave the same.
17th Nov
Let me just install a line of EV chargers onto my house, in order to get all the different deals.

This kind of deal turning out to be like gen 1 smart meters. Ridiculous.
17th Nov
It's quite obviously geared at first time buyers in an emerging EV market with potential of millions over coming 5 years. Not rocket science is it. I have an EV charger already, but good luck to those that get this deal. (edited)
17th Nov
Anyone got any thoughts on Podpoint? It seems their installation cost is fixed. We've got a pretty simple installation adjacent to home consumer unit and main feed less than 2m yet they want to charge two days labour.
17th Nov
I have had the Ohme Wall Charger for over three and a half years without getting a new sim.
I am on the Intelligent Octopus tariff which is the ideal solution for me as we have 2 fully electric cars, all we need to do is switch cars in the Ohme app.
17th Nov
How much did the installation cost - and what is the tariff you pay? I am on a standard octopus plan right now, thinking of buying an electric car, hence the questions. Thanks.
17th Nov
Please check your postcode as you may be eligible for a £400 installation grant like I was. This has made mine around the £500 price point installed
17th Nov
Any links to where you found this out?
17th Nov
I had 2 Ohme Wall Chargers installed (one for one of my employees) in May 2020 by Smarthomecharge.
They were around £600 + vat but at the time there was a £350 grant
Currently Intelligent Octopus is 7.5p from 23:30 to 05:30 and 30.52p at other times.

The good thing with intelligent octopus is the 7.5p is for all the house use not just charging your car, so if you can schedule washing machines and dishwashers etc for the cheap perion you only pay 7.5p.

Also you sometimes get smart charging outside these times so it is possible to get 12 hours @ 7.5p if the car needs charging a lot. (edited)
17th Nov
Note this unit isn't compatible with Octopus Intelligent so folk would need one of the few compatible EVs.
17th Nov
Check your main supply is not looped, if it is the Power Networks need to do a teardown up, applies to flats, but also terraced and some semi detached houses.
19th Nov
Not a bad deal. I've just gone for the Ohme home pro, mainly so I can I use the Octopus intelligent tariff for 7.5pkw off peak, compared to 9pkw off peak on this.