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Posted 5 February 2023
Free £5 public charging with Smart Home Charge and Electric Universe / Octopus Energy
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About this deal
What is Electric Universe?
Electric Universe is a public charging service to help make using and paying for public EV chargers easier.
Created by Octopus Energy, it gives you access to more than 380,000 chargers across the UK and Europe via one app or card. The app also has many extra features to make living with an EV even better.
One-tap access to thousands of chargers
Access and pay for EV charging with just one service - no more faffing around with RFID cards or charger network apps.
Simply sign up for free using our link at the top of this page, download the Electric Universe app and you're ready to go. You'll also receive an Electric Universe card to use.
One Bill
Connect your Electric Universe account with your credit/debit card or other payment method to make public charging payment easy. This helps keep all public charging costs nice and neat.
If you're an Octopus Energy customer, you can even have your public charging costs come out of your home energy bill, meaning even less paperwork!
EV Route Planning
The Electric Universe app has a handy map of all major public chargers in the UK and Europe, and you can also see which ones accept Electric Universe (which is most, anyway).
Plus, you can even use the route planner to plan your EV journey. It will automatically plan and optimise your EV charging stops to make sure you never run out of juice.
Discounted Rates
It doesn't cost any extra to use Electric Universe. The charging costs are the same as if you paid by contactless directly - in fact, in some cases Electric Universe offers discounted rates on certain chargers.
Check the Electric Universe app for the latest rates.
Electric Universe is a public charging service to help make using and paying for public EV chargers easier.
Created by Octopus Energy, it gives you access to more than 380,000 chargers across the UK and Europe via one app or card. The app also has many extra features to make living with an EV even better.
One-tap access to thousands of chargers
Access and pay for EV charging with just one service - no more faffing around with RFID cards or charger network apps.
Simply sign up for free using our link at the top of this page, download the Electric Universe app and you're ready to go. You'll also receive an Electric Universe card to use.
One Bill
Connect your Electric Universe account with your credit/debit card or other payment method to make public charging payment easy. This helps keep all public charging costs nice and neat.
If you're an Octopus Energy customer, you can even have your public charging costs come out of your home energy bill, meaning even less paperwork!
EV Route Planning
The Electric Universe app has a handy map of all major public chargers in the UK and Europe, and you can also see which ones accept Electric Universe (which is most, anyway).
Plus, you can even use the route planner to plan your EV journey. It will automatically plan and optimise your EV charging stops to make sure you never run out of juice.
Discounted Rates
It doesn't cost any extra to use Electric Universe. The charging costs are the same as if you paid by contactless directly - in fact, in some cases Electric Universe offers discounted rates on certain chargers.
Check the Electric Universe app for the latest rates.
More details at Octopus Energy has currently £50 credit for you and the referrer when you sign up with Octopus Energy campaign, if you want to use it you can do so from this .
Community Updates
Edited by a community support team member, 6 February 2023
103 Comments
sorted byUpdate for those also wondering about this: An hour after registering I got a confirmation email indicating the credit had been added to my account. (edited)
I need to email Octopus Energy about it, their customer service is generally pretty good and I'm sure they'll sort it out.
Edit - Actually it's probably Smart Home Charge I need to contact as the £5 offer is provided by them. (edited)
For a company that makes a big deal of selling their software to other companies, they don't half seem to cock up billing a lot. (edited)