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Originally Posted by ianch99
I have just switched to Go and was surprised how good the rates are:
Only 1.5p more that SVR in the day but a big win at night if you can use these hours. These is an Intelligent Go sibling tariff which has something to do with the type of car charger you might have?
I plan to move back to Agile when things (price, not wind) calm down a bit ..
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Thanks
ok so I guess I need to so the maths here …
It’s early days but at the moment I am using about 28kWh per week charging the EV. I work mostly from home but I do some local travel, most of which is a short school run. That’s why I went for the Dacia Spring, despite its tiny battery (a fraction under 27kWh) and short range (140 miles, give or take, under ideal conditions). My total electricity consumption this week was a tad over 103kWh.
My Flexible Octopus rate is 24.31p though, and in my area the GO daytime rate is 25.63p. Night rate is same as yours, 8.5p.
So right now, I’m spending about £6.80 per week charging the car and £18.23 powering everything else. On GO potentially that’s £2.38 on charging and £19.22 on everything else. So possibly a saving of 25.03-21.06=£3.97 per week, or about £17 per calendar (30 day) month.
The bonus consideration is that my EV charging is going to be pretty consistent week in week out whereas we have only just taken a lot of Christmas lights down and finished catering for a steady stream of friends and relatives, so 103kWh in a week, even including the car, is as high as our electricity consumption is ever likely to get.
So I guess I’m switching to Octopus GO.
. I will wait until Mobilize have installed my 7kW wall charger though. At the moment I’m using a 3-pin plug, which would make it difficult to contain a full charge within the overnight period should I need it.