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Octopus Energy, including Intelligent and go
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That also applies to 95% of the posts on these forums where a search or RTFM appliesLiterally 95% of this thread is in the FAQ's on the IO webpage...
Literally 95% of this thread is in the FAQ's on the IO webpage...
There is a bit of context not handled by the faqs including how easy it really is or isnāt to live with
Why do you want to switch to intelligent now then. Surely the tariff you are on is a lot cheaper?
Partly I got spooked by the email telling me Iād move to a new tariff and their website quoting me thwir fixed tariff at Ā£335 per month!
Also Iād rather fix now than risk the tariff changing last minute I guess.
ACarneiro
Active Member
It's all good. Sorry, I should have been more explicit and less terse.Ok no problem.
Youād just said in your original post about looking at your link wouldāve given us the answerās. (Answerās rather than answer, as in more than one question.) As the other person had only asked one question, I thought you were referring to both of us.
Anyway, apologies if you didnāt mean it that way.
Main thing is that some good points have come out regarding IO, so everyoneās a winner.
Was having a bad day and that's nobody's fault.
Apologies all around! Glad other have given you the answers you seek.
I guess it was a typo and you meant April 22 not 23?
I think it mean April 23rd as its 45 days before it expires they're supposed to notify you
Mines April 30th. Some people are still getting the go faster rates rolled over by the way. They have stopped the Go ones though.
Good to know, thanks. I haven't had any kind of renewal notice yet & was planning to just wait while keeping an eye on my account details to see what happens when my fixed deal expires. It's easy & quick to change tariffs with them, so I'm not too bothered about being put on variable for a few days if that happens.
Drew57
Active ember
I last needed a charge on Sunday so the car has been unplugged ever since & temporarily disconnected via the IO app. I probably won't need a smart charge for a few more days & IO can be used as often or as little as required.
As for our other EV, it is only used locally, rarely needing more than an hour or two of charging & mostly on its own but occasionally at the same time as the Tesla. It has a 7 day schedule set to 23.30-05.30 which I disable whenever there is excess solar and the Tesla is already at its desired SOC (otherwise, plugging in causes the charge to always commence at 23.30 via either Zappi or granny lead).
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thanks. Is it easy to disconnect? And do you have to do that if you want to use a different charger like a supercharger or other? It sounds like the API will be setting the car to not charge otherwise (eg I set my zappi to 'fast' but the car isn't accepting charge)
Drew57
Active ember
Quick question on the various methods of restricting the total charge the car can take. There are settings within the car and also within IO. I assume the car overrides IO? So if car set to 80% and IO to 90% then the car would stop the charge at 80%?
similarly if I need 100% for a long journey I assume I need to set the car AND IO to 100%?
cheers,
greg
similarly if I need 100% for a long journey I assume I need to set the car AND IO to 100%?
cheers,
greg
I finally got round to working out how much our electricity bill is going to increase by on 1 April and whether it's worth moving to an EV tariff, e.g. Octopus Go.
Based on the last 60 days of usage, I was surprised to see that Octopus Go is already cheaper than the 1 April tariff I will move to without using the 4hrs of 7.5p/kWh to charge an EV.
New tariff is 41% increase vs. 25% on Go, mostly due to standing charge.
If I was to charge an EV for 10k miles it will cost 45% more on Go versus 83% more on 1 April tariff.
So, I can move to go and put 10k miles of charge into an EV for 4% more cost than staying with my existing supplier.
Based on the last 60 days of usage, I was surprised to see that Octopus Go is already cheaper than the 1 April tariff I will move to without using the 4hrs of 7.5p/kWh to charge an EV.
New tariff is 41% increase vs. 25% on Go, mostly due to standing charge.
If I was to charge an EV for 10k miles it will cost 45% more on Go versus 83% more on 1 April tariff.
So, I can move to go and put 10k miles of charge into an EV for 4% more cost than staying with my existing supplier.
fancealot
Member
Correct the Tesla will not let you charge past it's pre-set limit even if IO is trying to do so.
Does anyone know if the Intelligent rate is going to increase in April? My current Go rate is good until the start of June but I'm already "registered" for IO, just haven't moved yet 'cos it'll double my pet rate. If the peak rate is going to increase in April though I'm thinking it might be better to switch now - 2 months pain, but then 10 months at today's IO rates rather then a higher one that might be just round the corner ...
I plugged in today at about 5:30 with about 23% battery. It gave me a schedule to get to 80% mostly starting at 11:30 then on/off through the night finishing at 7:30. Fine.
I then unplugged and had to go pick up my daughter. Will it recalibrate the time needed based on my now lower state of charge, or will it just give me the slots its calculated and maybe itāll be fine?
Not urgent, just curious
I then unplugged and had to go pick up my daughter. Will it recalibrate the time needed based on my now lower state of charge, or will it just give me the slots its calculated and maybe itāll be fine?
Not urgent, just curious
It will recalculate. In fact, you'll often find that it will recalculate its original schedule two or even three times through the early evening, as mine did tonight.
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