Best Electricity Plan for new EV Owners

The Smart D/N meter is functionally equivalent to the existing ones (plus the data logging bit which makes it smart) so yes you can stay on D/N tariffs for as long as you want

The question is the suppliers, whether they'll stop offering discounts on those tariffs to push people over to smart plans

There was some rumours that the CRU was forcing the suppliers to do exactly that, however I think it's BS as the head of the CRU famously said they don't control electricity tariffs

Ha, didn’t think of it that way 😂😂

But presumably they would now be eligible for a Smart 24hr tariff that adds up the values from the appropriate time-slot registers (as opposed to single reading MCC01 metering). (Or applies the same price to each of them, then adds the totals. Not sure which way round the calculations work. Shouldn't matter.)

I can see how customers might get annoyed if a smart 24hr tariff had a different unit price to a non-smart 24hr tariff.

Any smart meter can support DST tariffs (like the smart EV tariff you mention.). The only thing that's different is the existing smart meters (RM106 and RM107) cannot do day/night tariffs, and the new smart meter RM108 cannot do 24hr tariffs.

The meter signal strength sets what MCC you are on, and is only applicable if moving to a smart tariff. MCC12 is for sufficient connectivity and MCC16 is insufficient - although 12 and 16 could be the other way round, I'm not 100% which is which. We havent seen to date any difference in the tariffs available to either smart MCC

You can keep your D/N tariffs on the new smart meter as long as you want, so doesn't seem to be any reason not to change over

Same. And I worked in an energy supply company for 3 years many moons ago so I know how bad it can be from the inside, as it were.

I remember taking a trip in my new (to me) 2014 leaf in 2016 when I got it, to fast charge in all four provinces on the same day. Just because it was free. And, despite them all being SPOF chargers I didnt need to queue once!

The good/bad auld days. When you chose between range limited washing machines like Leaf or Zoe, or megabucks Tesla which I didnt have the money for then.

I have the old school reversing meter and to be honest MDE have been brilliant postponing it 3 times 6 months per time for me since they first got in touch in April 2022 and said they will try to keep doing it until ESBN get on to them about it. I will have to decide at some stage what way to go though. 😖

Don't get a smart meter, get an MCC02 day night meter. The smart meters generally only offer 2-4 hours of cheaper rate, which isnt enough to charge an EV, whereas the MCC02 day night meters offer 9 hours.