What is the best EV charger for OVO Charge Anytime?

thanks, i’ve seen that, shows very few chargers that we can choose, any way around this ? 

There is indeed. What EV and Charger do you have or are planning on? We can check compatibility of that for you as to whether Direct To Vehicle might work.

hey thanks for the kind response…. 

its a company car…. rather lucky, i am getting a Taycan 4s with Upgraded Battery and upgraded charger on the car (150kW on-board DC-DC converter) 

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Verification complete! Your Porsche Taycan has been verified as: Compatible via D2V

This means Kaluza will get the data needed directly from your Porche Taycan regardless of the charger you use. You will need to allow Kaluza to access data from the vehicle in order to make this work.

right so the car is good to go for Ovo Drive and Anytime D2V which is good news…. now, can i use my choice of charger ? 

Yup, my bot thinks your EV should work based on the data it holds so even with a Zappi charger you should be fine as long as you set the car up properly.

You only need either the EV or Charger to be compatible in order to qualify. However:

If you’re doing it via the EV (best option in your case!), then only that EV will earn the credits. If you plug in anything else, you’ll be charged full rates.

If you’re doing it via the Charger, you can plug in ANY EV that works with that charger, but it has to be that charger. If you use another one, you won’t get the credits.

That's a link to the full list of cars. if your cars on that list you can use any charger on the market. 

For me I would still pick one of the 2 chargers on OVO’s list then if you change cars for any reason you can still get the cheep Electric 

Charge Anytime EVs and Smart Chargers | OVO Energy

loving the responses, thank you so much for the help on this….. 

No worries.

Obviously, it’s totally up to you as to how you want to go ahead with this. For pretty obvious reasons, if it were me I’d keep the Taycan if it wasn’t for the fact I’ve never applied for a driving license.

As for the charger? If you’ve not ordered one yet, I’d consider going for the Indra Smart Charger or Ohme models that are compatible with +Anytime, especially if you might want to charge other EV’s. That way, you can chop and change the EV whenever you want and still get the cheaper rates. It’d also mean that the EV can go properly into deep sleep even while smart charging.

This is kinda important, because Tesla EV’s (for example) will remain awake if there’s ANY web activity AT ALL and this includes something polling it to find out whether it’s charging or not. And this can result in faster battery drain than if the EV is allowed to go into deep sleep when parked up, since that allows for a pretty much full shut down and sips the battery.

If you want maximum compatibility as well, go for an untethered charger, since it won’t matter what connector your EV uses - they’ll all work fine with untethered chargers.

If you KNOW you’re going to commit to a specific connector type forever and want a little more convenience, go for a tethered charger. This will restrict your choice of EV to ones that work with the connector type, but always guarantees that the cable is available at all times.

Buying a Citroen ec4 soon and need a home charger for it. Looking at the Ohme Home Pro or Indra but not sure which is best. I like the looks of the Indra, and the fact it has wifi connection, but reviews suggest the app and connectivity is difficult. The Ohme seems to have good reviews but I'm put off by it needing 4G to connect and after 3 years paying for the sim....I can't see any info on how much this will cost eventually. Anybody have experience of either charger? Also how does preconditioning work with Charge Anytime.....does it need to be actively charging to do this, or will it just work if you set it in the app, and will this still be on the 7p tariff?

Hey @jentom1975,

Welcome to the OVO Online Community,

I’ve found some topics that might be helpful to you:

Hi @jentom1975 , I chose the Ohme ePod, as I wanted untethered. Purchased & installed via a local firm, as Ovo only offered the Home Pro at the time. I see that’s changed now

https://www.ovoenergy.com/electric-cars/smart-charger#choose

All good so far, though it took a day or two for the SIM mobile network connection to locate & settle in. Unknown as to what, if any, charges will occur after the 3Y period with Ohme. You could probably make a similar comment about a possible charge for wifi access to data servers

The Ohme app works fine (no jinx, please), as long as I make the first connection via the Kia Connect app, to refresh the API credentials, I guess. The app also updated to show the new, lower charging rate for Charge Anytime

What is the best alternative charger to replace my OHME Charger 

Hi ​@Robert N ,

You’ve got a few options:

• Indra
• Hypervolt
• Zappi
• Andersen
• evec
• NexBlue

All of these are compatible. Hypervolt has so far proven to be the most reliable, but you’re welcome to explore all of them.

Got more questions? Let me know

Hey ​@Robert N 

One of our community members has left some really helpful advice here, I hope you’ve found it helpful in choosing a new charger.

There’s a full list on the Charge Anytime website too here.

Many thanks for the info:

Options listed on the OVO Home Chargers choice list:

EV charger: Smart EV charger installation | OVO

• Indra. Two options
• Hypervolt. Three options
• Zappi. Not listed as an option
• Andersen. Three options
• evec. Not listed as an option
• NexBlue. Not listed as an option
• myenergi. Two options

First time I looked they were all not available subject to completion of Beta Testing. This note has now been removed.

I have a Jaguar iPace EV400. This vehicle is not listed on the Compatible Charge Anytime EVs or Beta EVs smart chargers list.

EV charger: Smart EV charger installation | OVO

 I have requested quotations for Anderson Quartz and Hypervolt home 3 pro.

No worries, glad I could help.

I suspect the most likely reason some of the supported Chargers aren’t on OVO’s storefront yet is probably either because there’d be too many on there, OR because OVO hasn’t yet negotiated a deal with the manufacturers to become a reseller.

You can definitely still order from the manufacturers directly or other resellers though! OVO Charge Anytime doesn’t require you to order via OVO but you can if you want to - it’s just an option OVO provides to make things a little more integrated.

Hi, thanks for the explanation. 

To clarify, I have only contacted the OVO supported chargers.

It looks like it would be cheaper for me to change my power supplier rather than the EV Charger, to one compatible with a low rate tariff for a Jaguar iPace.

Be careful about that - many of the other cheap charging offerings define the entire tariff. Unlike the others Charge Anytime is an Add-On that can be attached to any OVO tariff and you can tariff hop freely whilst keeping the cheap charging.

Make sure to properly run the numbers first.

Hey ​@Robert N 

I’m glad to see you’ve been able to get some helpful advice here, Blastoise186 has left some further helpful advice about the different between Charge Anytime and most other cheap EV charging offers. 

You can add Charge Anytime to ANY OVO credit tariff, and also isn’t limited to a specific timeframe each day, you get to charge any time, when the grid is greenest and we’ll make sure your charged by the time you set it. See more about Charge Anytime on the webpage here.

Hi thanks,

The issue is that OVO no longer have agreement with Ohme to apply the anytime low rate tariff my vehicle, so I have to make a change. New charger or new power supplier. its cheaper to change provider than remove my existing Ohme charger and install a new OVO compatible one.

Just about to order a charger, should I go tethered or untethered ?

I can see untethered is much neater but is it a faff and will I regret it?

what do you have?  Pics please if possible.  
I’m thinking of possibly building a wooden box with a door on the front to hide it if it’s too ugly.  We live in a white cottage and a modern black box in clear view might be a bit much.

Tethered any day to avoid the faf. Indra Smsrt Pro works for me and appears to be universally accepted if you shift supplier and require the cheaper EV rate. 

Hypervolt is always a good bet - those are tethered and you can get them in black, grey or white.

However, please don’t box it in - electrical safety isn’t too keen on that.