EV Charger Newbie

Your 3 pin charger will be too slow for charging your new EV. Use it as a last resort.

i arranged for OVO to install an Indra charger. It’s reliable and works a treat. A long overnight charge giving me a full battery for a range of 280 miles costs under £4. I avoid using public chargers unless I have to as they are currently relatively expensive but not prohibitively so.

Take advice from the forums as the transition from petrol to EV is not plain sailing. Make sure you have breakdown insurance for the rare event of inadvertently depleting the second battery as I did on the ferry when my alarm went off triggered by the motion of the sea.

There’s also other Chargers you can check out too. We’ve seen Hypervolt perform pretty well with OVO Charge Anytime recently for example.

All the ones listed at https://www.ovoenergy.com/electric-cars/smart-charger are fully compatible. Please note that if you purchase one via OVO, then OVO may receive a commission from the sale, but it won’t get passed to me.

OVO Charge Anytime runs as an Add-On/Bolt-On that you can use with any of their Plans/Tariffs - it doesn’t cost any extra and reduces the rate for 24/7/365 EV Charging to 7p/kWh without pushing up the costs for anything else. You can charge up with it whenever you want and still get the cheap rate as long as you don’t hit Urgent/Boost Charge.

Either way, the OVO Forum strongly recommends that you get some kind of discounted EV Charging one way or another.

Thanks for the replies all.

i have logged a survey with OVO so hopefully my quote comes soon to get the charger installed. 

Keep us posted with how you get on ​@deyoung50 😊

Thats really helpful thanks Taj. 

I think I’m going to have to use a local installer as I’m still yet to hear from anyone regarding my survey I sent in.

I’ve been looking at the Ohme pro which looks like it’s approved by OVO. 

Hi ​@deyoung50,

Hopefully the replies you got to your question have been helpful. 

It may be worth contacting the team directly to discuss your options. 

How to get in contact with the Charge Anytime team

• Charge Anytime - 0330 175 9678 (Option 1 new customers/option 2 existing customers) 

• chargeanytime@ovo.com

Can anyone recommend a tariff for my current situation please? I am awaiting an install of a charger which is likely to happen in the middle of this month and I need to charge my vehicle. I’m currently on the simpler plan which is the variable plan and I am told that there are no benefits to this such as cheaper rate overnight. Is there a current tariff with Ovo that I can jump on now which I will also benefit from the charge any time when my charger is installed?

I think you should be able to use D2V Mode via the Charge Anytime app. No tariff swap needed - OVO Charge Anytime works on ALL OVO Tariffs except PAYG. Just grab the app and start setting it up.

Once you get the Charger, you’ll need to call 0330 175 9678 to get support to switch mode so that the integration runs on the Charger instead of the EV.