Hi - I am thinking of switching to OvO to benefit from the charging of my Tesla, I just wanted to ask, does the OVO charge anytime need access to my Tesla account. If this is the case, then this is a big data flaw/privacy concern.
I ask this as I wonder how the app knows the car is being charged at a given time?
Thank you.
Best answer by Blastoise186
Hi
As I understand things, Charge Anytime only talks to the EV itself, it doesn’t have access to the rest of the Tesla account and cannot make changes to it at all. Tesla would have reviewed what OVO/Kaluza wanted to do and worked with them to figure things out safely.
The system basically just asks the EV whether or not it’s charging and if so, where it currently is at that time to see whether it’s at home or not.
If you’d rather not do things that way, you can connect directly to a compatible charger instead which would mean Charge Anytime can’t touch your Tesla account or EV at all.
Did you get a resolution to your charging issue? I have a Model 3 and it works perfectly. I just leave it set to be fully charged by 6am. It usually starts charging for a minute and then decides when to charge. I have seen it stop and start which I assume is based on low/high grid availability, but it has always been charged by the end time. I leave the charge limit set to 100% in the OVO app as the charge limit you set in the Tesla app will stop the charge so it’s then the same process charging at home or at a charger away from home. It’s also then straightforward for my partner to charge without knowing anything about the Charge anytime app. I assume the Charge Anytime app checks the Tesla charge limit when estimating how long you need to charge the car. I do like that you aren’t restricted on times you get low cost charging as you could set the car to be ready at anytime day of night so it’s very flexible.
On security, the app does know whether you are charging or not and where you are as it will show whether you are charging when away from home, in which case you obviously get no credits.
If I had a compatible charger (mine is a Hypervolt) then I would use this but I’m pretty happy with the process as it is.
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