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CA public charging - how much have i used?

  • July 2, 2026
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I have a Charge Anytime account which gives me a monthly "free" quota for home charging plus an annual allowance for public charging (at selected charging points). The CA app tells me how many kWh of my public charging allowance I have used but I cannot find the value of this, or the money value of my remaining allowance. Knowing how many units I have used is interesting but the pounds-and-pence value is also very relevant! 

Any way I can get this number? Have I missed something obvious in the app - always a possibility?

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Isn’t the value of the remaining allowance going to vary depending on where you do your charging (and prices potentially going up/down in future)? Not sure how Ovo could tell you how much X kWh is worth if they don’t know when and where you will charge your car.


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Isn’t the value of the remaining allowance going to vary depending on where you do your charging (and prices potentially going up/down in future)? Not sure how Ovo could tell you how much X kWh is worth if they don’t know when and where you will charge your car.

 

This is precisely why it’s more useful to be able to see the remaining value left - the package includes a voucher for a fixed monetary amount - £120 or £240 depending on the tier you’ve chosen - so knowing how many kWh you’ve used isn’t actually directly very useful.

You don’t have a kWh allowance or a miles allowance, you have a financial allowance.

@Nealeb I haven’t signed onto the pre-pay packages as I don’t have any use for the public charging vouchers really but I would expect to find the information you want in the Account tab, maybe under ‘Your Plans’ or perhaps the ‘Perks’ options, or the ‘Public Payments’ section.


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  • July 2, 2026

Indeed - with the "home charging" part, the headline figure is "x miles" although the quota is actually in kWh but at least the app does show you kWh used to date. However, the public charging quota is given in £ but (to date) I cannot find how much I have "spent". I do appear to be able to download an invoice for a specific charge afterwards, as I discovered this morning, but they disappear after a while (a month?) so no historical data available although the quota is for a year.

I am using my public charge quota even though most of my charging is at home. New to EVs (couple of months) so still trying to understand home vs public charging breakdown for my pattern of use.