Hi, i have a BMW I4, a company car, and i need to enter the actual kwh into my company app for business mile reimbursement. I have been using 7p as this is the charge anytime rate but when i calculated the actual reimbursement i have had over the last 3 months it averages, each month, to 10p / kwh so less reimbursement than i was expecting. I was expecting a reimbursement per charging session of 16.44p (23.44p - 7p) to take me to 7p actual.
I don’t have the override feature enabled so i was surprised by this.
Anyone else see this?
thanks for any help!
Best answer by Blastoise186
Ok, I’ve had a chat with the Charge Anytime team out the back.
They suspect what’s happening here is that when you plug in, your BMW is initially charging immediately at full rate for somewhere between 5-15 minutes before Charge Anytime takes over and pauses charging so that the schedules can kick in. This short period is at full rate because it takes at least that time for BMW to notify OVO/Kaluza that the EV has been connected to a Charger.
There isn’t really a way to improve this unfortunately - it’s all down to how fast BMW reacts!
Sun charged 43kwh, this is what my car and my charger recorded…..Charge Any Time recorded 38.3 kwh and reimbursed based on that. Time before that 43 kwh charged, anytme 33 kwh…...Hence the difference.
Ok, I’ve had a chat with the Charge Anytime team out the back.
They suspect what’s happening here is that when you plug in, your BMW is initially charging immediately at full rate for somewhere between 5-15 minutes before Charge Anytime takes over and pauses charging so that the schedules can kick in. This short period is at full rate because it takes at least that time for BMW to notify OVO/Kaluza that the EV has been connected to a Charger.
There isn’t really a way to improve this unfortunately - it’s all down to how fast BMW reacts!
Thanks for the super quick reply, awesome support. I suspected what you found but good to confirm. I’ll update my average charging rate for my company car :)
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