What time does cheaper EV rate apply on Charge Anytime?

Yeah it might not be ready, but I am getting the discounted rate straight away. By doing this way (creating a schedule) ok getting instant cheap charging rather than the full rate.

Am I missing something?

I don’t think so. The system tries to look at emissions and match need to requirement. If you need the EV within a few hours, it will try to match this but I guess if there’s too much instant demand, there may be a flag on your account

Thanks ,I'm hoping other Charge anytime users can confirm this please?

@E-golf you cant set a Start time only a ready by time. 

If you plug in at 50% at 1pm you will need 2 & bit hours to get you to full. If you set your charge by time to 3:30pm then it may fully charge 100% but I dont think it will be certain, if you set your charge by time to 6pm im sure it will always be full by then.  

I know the change over to electric can be worrying/stressful But I think your overthinking, looking for problems that wont really effect you.

So far this month Ive used 163.1Kw mostly overnight charges but one was a daytime charge costing £11,41 thanks to anytime. at the normal rate that would have been £41.18 so its saved me just over £30 so far this month. 

If anyone's interested Ive done a comparison @ 40mpg that would have cost me £96 in petrol. By the end of the month it will be over £100 cheaper to run an EV 

My overriding though is we all need to be careful.

The Anytime tariff will continue to be cheap while the majority of users normally give the system as long as possible to charge during the cheapest times of day and night. It is also better for the environment.

I wouldn't recommend this fast charging during the day becomes the norm for lots of people, else everyone will ultimately suffer on the Anytime plan. Peak time electricity costs can be eye wateringly expensive for OVO to purchase. There needs to be a level of personal responsibility with these sort of tariff.

Yes agree, very well said. 

Having another think about this, I highly doubt my driving pattern would require daytime charging.

I think originally I was getting worried about charging.

I think the odd time day time fast charging is fine, that is the great advantage of the tariff.

Good luck with your EV !

I just joined OVO and I had assumed it would work overnight, but seeing this thread I decided to try to recharge my PHEV after I had been out to the shops this morning - set the time to 90 minutes ahead and it worked - Went out again in afternoon and reset for tomorrow morning at 7.00 as I had been doing before. 

I’m using a 13amp socket so it takes a while but my PHEV only stores 9KWh so for my local journeys it works fine. 

Our son invited us round tonight so I reset it to 19:00 and now it is charging again, all at 7p rate.

I can’t see any reason I need to use “boost” ever, but I guess if I had an EV rather than PHEV it might be neccessary.  I’m going to save more than I thought as I had only thought I would get I charge per 24 hours, but I’ll likely get three if I go out a couple of times.  Just need to remember to reset the time on the app.

Hi Everyone, I am going to purchase an EV in the coming weeks. I am looking at costs and savings for an EV and am a member of OVO.

They are promoting Charge Anytime for 7 Pence per KWH but reading the terms it seems to me that it is anything but charge anytime. it seems that it is only the 7P rate on scheduled charging times which I guess is overnight. I feel that the name charge anytime is deliberately misleading if that is the case.

Can someone help me with two questions I have:

1.  Is the 7P rate only applicable on the scheduled hours?
2. What are the scheduled hours? 
3. What would you recommend for charger units compatible with OVO and the Hyundai Inster  

Thankyou for any help

Hey ​@myfanwy1uk !

I can answer those for you.

The 7p rate is available for ALL EV Charging 24/7/365 provided you run it via Smart Charging - it’s not purely an overnight thing. It also won’t affect your main tariff rates for anything else either. You just set the Ready By time in the app, plug-in and let the system do the rest. Depending on the times you specify, charging may take place during the day or night with the aim of getting a full charge by the target time.

Given you’ve got a Hyundai, you’ll want to hit the Charger route for best results.

As for Chargers… You can go for Indra, Hypervolt, Andersen (not the Quartz though!), EVEC or Nexblue. Out of those ones, Hypervolt tends to be a popular choice and we’ve seen it work well based on what folks say here on the Forum.

Let me know if you’ve got more questions!