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Posted 17 January 2024
12 months’ FreeCharge when you buy a Hive EV Charger
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NEW! We’ll give you 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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Why choose a home EV charger from Hive?Choose your fast home EV charging point and buy it alone, or have it safely installed on your wall by British Gas. Then take control of your charging with the award-winning Hive app to save energy and money.
Expert home installation of your EV charger by British Gas approved engineers.
Choose EV home charger installation by British Gas approved engineers for total peace of mind. Their approved expert engineers are fully trained, so you know that safety is assured. And they’ll take care of all the paperwork, so you have a hassle-free experience.
4 easy steps to install your home EV charger.
Here’s what’ll happen once you buy your charger:
1. Share photos: Show us your main fuse, electricity meter and where your charger will go.
2. Complete questionnaire: Tell us about your appliances so we can get authorisation for your charger.
3. Video chat: We’ll do a virtual home check and answer any questions.
4. Charger installation: Usually takes 3-5 hours.
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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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Details
Why choose a home EV charger from Hive?Choose your fast home EV charging point and buy it alone, or have it safely installed on your wall by British Gas. Then take control of your charging with the award-winning Hive app to save energy and money.
Expert home installation of your EV charger by British Gas approved engineers.
Choose EV home charger installation by British Gas approved engineers for total peace of mind. Their approved expert engineers are fully trained, so you know that safety is assured. And they’ll take care of all the paperwork, so you have a hassle-free experience.
4 easy steps to install your home EV charger.
Here’s what’ll happen once you buy your charger:
1. Share photos: Show us your main fuse, electricity meter and where your charger will go.
2. Complete questionnaire: Tell us about your appliances so we can get authorisation for your charger.
3. Video chat: We’ll do a virtual home check and answer any questions.
4. Charger installation: Usually takes 3-5 hours.
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sorted byit is a terrible charger that still uses GPRS. And this deal is only worth about £170 in free electric.
just google it you will find 100s of people moaning about how it is unusable.
I can not stress enough. Do not get this charger.
also just in general. They are really fussy now when fitting these things. All suppliers. As part P of some electric code got updated to say that the bonding must be checked before you can have one. On gas and water. So anyone like me who is not in a modern house check your bonding as you will likely fail (edited)
Or should I go with My energy zappi octopus intelligent go.
Yes I am avoiding gprs as it will be switched off in 203x
Second charger for me!!!
7.5p for six hours and 31p at other times.
however you need a wall charger. Not this one though for the love of god not this one (edited)
There was a stackable 15% deal 2 weeks ago, but now gone.
Still a decent deal.
Anyone considering should check their house main fuse. Many are 60amp on old domestic installations. Should be 80 or 100 for an EV. Some chargers,like Zappi, can be set for 60a charging.
The installation fees is okay, plus you'll get 3 year warranty & a peace of mind - you can also pay monthly without any interest for up to 10 months.
It's also up to 8,000 miles and recall an adviser saying only ONE EV car per property.
You'll save roughly around £200.
I would opt for the EO Mini Pro 3 as it'll have solar panel option feature unlike the Alfen (edited)
You plug in during the day they may give
You cheap rate if there is low demand. You let Octopus control your charge and make a charging schedule. All other times it’s peak rate approx 35pKWh.
The good thing about this is if you have house batteries you can benefit from the cheap night rate. For instance I charge all my batteries up at night if there is no solar for the 7.5p cheap rate so never pay peak price. (edited)
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Also this offer requires signing up for a british gas tarrif... how does that compare to octopus?
Ours started to discolour within about 12m of install. Was South facing in South East so did get quite a bit of sun though.
No comment on this in itself. Conscious that this is of course a value sharing site, so price is important to readers.
with that disclaimer, longer and wider plans may be a factor in your purchase decision.
EV charging can be standalone, or part of your home energy system.
They can integrate with your solar panel system and your grid energy supplier's tariffs;
- if your solar panel system is producing a surplus, EV chargers can divert that to your car - "free" miles
- in winter, they can charge overnight based on your supplier's cheap rate, (just like this, but not tied to British Gas)
An example is GivEnergy
givenergy.co.uk/pro…er/
If you invest in solar, this can give you free miles as long as your panels produce a surplus.
That may be an alternative approach to consider. There is a substantial installation cost with this charger; if you install *with* your solar + battery system, the EV charger installation part may be less than this standalone cost, and the installer will be more "invested" in doing a good job.
That's a long term, much bigger investment; but it may represent longer term value - free miles *every* sunny day!
I have this Hive Alfie charger but am with OVO (7p k/w any time charging), it’s been fine for over a year now
If I order the charger, what happens next?
Up each night via 13amp
That’s the beauty of ev
7.5p per kWh on octopus intelligent and you don’t need a wall charger if your car is compatible - if your car isn’t - then you need specific ones - this isn’t one of them
BG are not cheap for ev charging
Free miles? Nope - far out of pocket for paying for the charger etc
We have a 64kwh e-Niro and I recently needed to do a 200 mile round trip every other day for a week.
It's not possible to charge it fully in the of peak hours with the granny charger.
I ended up charging all day, at peak prices. Still cheaper a than using public chargers.
Generally we can manage with the granny charger, but going to get a 7kw charger for those times I need to get more charge into it during off peak.
next they will introduce monthly membership just to see the reports on your usage etc
So, about. £290 for the charger is still pretty good
However now that I’ve placed order they want proof of off road parking!
Anyone else opted for this and managed to get them to install it without a drive?