Kia EV and OVO Charge Anytime - when will this be eligible for direct to vehicle (D2V)?

Tim apprecate you may not be able to give an exact date for Kia EVs, however you should be able to find out more details say roughly when the next set of vehicles are being added or whether we should expect Kia support in say 6 or 12 months.  

As it stands we dont have any information to make a decision on such as upgrading to compatible charger or moving to another supplier.  Is the expectation we have to keep checking back every week in the hope you’ve added them?  there isnt even a way to be notified when more cars or chargers are added as far as i can tell so we are all in the dark.

Philip,  which kia did you select?  i just tried with Kia EV6 LR 2WD and it said the car was compatible.

Thanks for the feedback, @stephenjk - it’s been raised elsewhere on this forum that the charge anytime compatibility page could be more specific and detailed about what’s on the horizon. This has already been passed on to the OVO teams and Kaluza. 

I have the EV6 GT line S 77kw AWD. Apparently Octopus is draining the EV6 rather than charging!  so they have removed it from compatible car list  at the moment.

Interesting @philipgh let’s hope EV manufacturers can sort out any blockers to these smart energy tariffs quickly!

What charger do you have?

I have the Easee Home charger.

Yes utter frustration here too! Thought after all the delivery delays, the least of my problems as an existing OVO customer would be the compatability of my new Kia Sportage plug in and existing charger.

So a quick fix is needed here and in the meantime I’m sticking to the old fashioned plug in - granny charger!

I too have an Kia EV6 and an Easee charger, that's not compatible presently with OVO.

What I find most annoying is that I have both the car and the charger integrated into my Home Assistant, using the open API's of Kia and Easee I even have a Glo CAD that gives me 30 second energy readings.

Right now I'm still on an old fixed rate tariff, at 18p per kWh so I'm not feeling the full pain of charging at home.  

As no time based incentive is offered, I presently charge when I want, at the full 7.4kw my charger offers even if the 'Carbon Intensity on the national grid is High' at the time.

Obviously if I had the incentive of a reduction in cost to myself, I would adjust my behaviour.  Our cars and chargers both offer the ability to schedule the times and energy rate at which we charge within their respective apps, so why the insistence on having to use something that OVO deems compatible or wants to control themselves astounds me.  Allowing us to to program them ourselves to our own financial benefit to take advantage of a time based tariff seems a no brainer, why over complicate and throw yet another middleman system/subscription into the mix if you don't really have to.

@Dabar I believe that time of use EV tariffs from the likes of Octopus offer the sort of thing you’re looking for. Hopefully we’ll have that Kia compatible with Charge Anytime’s ‘direct to vehicle’ integration in no time!

Hi,

New to forum and was wondering if anyone has any idea when the kia niro ev and sync ev charger will be added to compatible list for cheap rate charging,  take delivery of vehicle Aug/Sept so hopefully by then