Can I add a second car to my Charge Anytime?

No other suppliers offer this feature.

What's your charger?

Hi,

thanks for your response.

it’s a Hypervolt. Other suppliers offer EV charging at night for discounted rate which has no one car restriction. Octopus for one. 

OVO Charge Anytime is the only one that doesn’t come with a penalty of higher rates outside the cheap times. And by higher rates, I mean higher than the equivalent Standard Variable, so you’re not necessarily saving as much.

This is a good point, so yes would need carefully worked out. 
OVO realised multi car access was an issue and suggested an app fix was imminent back in March. I don’t  think tho has happed yet. I was hoping some forum members in a similar position may have found and workaround.

Hey @John C,

I’m asking for an update on this internally, I’ll report back when I get a response 🙂

This is phenomenal!!! Thank you

So we have Anytime charging on an ID3 with a non smart charger (as the EV is compatible).

At last the option to be able to select a second EV has arrived ……

However I have a Polestar 2 as the second EV and its not on the compatible EV list !!

Can I connect the Polestar via a compatible charger (not currently on my Anytime network) to get both EVs charging on Anytime - Or will this new setup mess up the current OVO Anytime set up ?

Second option - why can’t a balanced (non smart charger) be used like the ROLEC dual output charger to charge the polestar on anytime ?

Hey @dms66,

I’ll ask the smart home team about this and get back to you 😊

While you wait for that, I hope you don’t mind if I give my own thoughts on this one. Just a heads up that this isn’t an “official” answer - just my own ramblings!

The snag with using a non-smart charger with an EV that’s not CA compatible is that Kaluza can’t get the data they need to do the number crunching, and without that data they can’t calculate how many kWh to get OVO to discount. That’s why you need to have either a compatible EV or a compatible Charger alongside a Smart Meter in Half-Hourly mode.

However, the Smart Meter alone isn’t capable of 100% guaranteeing that the EV Charging can be picked up with totally perfect accuracy - as we’ve seen with OVO Greenlight, it’s not so much an exact science as it is a best estimate. When combined with a compatible EV/Charger however, getting that data is easy because the system can use both sources to figure it out.

Forum Volunteers like myself have always said that if you have a compatible Charger, it’s best to use that regardless of what EV you’ve got - that way you can charge literally any EV under the sun and get CA to work on it.