Best Electricity Plan for new EV Owners

Typo - Energia 2-6 tarriff.

Left to my own devices I would manage charging 99% within that window :-)

There is still a need for Day/Night plans for people (like myself) with a second EV and a longish commute each day, plus a battery to charge, particularly in the winter. I can also imagine it being a bit stressful (and maybe obsessive) trying to watch that everything gets charged in the EV window.

What? You just said in the post above that there would be murder in your house because of non adherence to the 3 hour charging window and then you seem to contradict yourself saying there should be no issue as that's what timers are for???

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I have been with prepay power for years now for gas and electricity, have started the process of switching to electric Ireland and the loyalty department rang me offering €500 to stay. Told them to shove it. They are charging 35c electric and 15c gas plus all their crazy standing charges. I'm going onto the 24hour 25c electric 8c gas and suits us perfect as we only charge the EV about once a week.

we will have 3 EV’s soon, with daughter getting an E Up, fortunately, herself does all charging at work in her ID4, but leaving that aside, it would need some organisation alright, in our 4 hour night window, thats why i discounted the 2 and 3 hour windows tariffs, just not flexible enough, particularly in winter, but getting into a habit of daily charging, its probably manageable, depends on ones daily commuting really

What speed does a battery charge at? It's a figure that's impossible to find.

My charger (Andersen A2)tells me the exact speed, it maxes at 7.2, and as car battery has a charging curve, this reduces as it approaches closer to 100 %

Did you mean a home battery? It's generally measured as a ratio if the capacity, often for LFP cells it's recommended to charge at 0.5C

So a 10kWh battery can charge at the

You can sometimes charge or discharge faster, but you need to check the battery spec sheet

You may also be limited by your inverter or charge controller

The highest I can set my home battery is 3kw. The most my house will pull is around 10.5 KW so when the home battery is charging and my wife's EV is on the granny charger, my own car will only pull around 5 KW from the Zappi. Depending upon what else is on in the house, it coukd be less.

My one charges in 2 hours 45 minutes from 10 to 100 %, its 15kw, but the lowest it goes is 10%, so it charges up at around 4.6 kw, its limited to the invertor max, which is 5kw, and there some minor losses converting to DC

last night it was at 16% when it started charging at 02:00 and was at 99% by 04:30, a slight curve at the very end.

It is covering all house usage, for almost every day, exceptions are very cold days, and days when solar production is near zero, we thankfully don’t have any electric showers, so that really helps, and try to stick to timed washing machine, dishwasher during 4 hour night window. All hot water and ev charging during 4 hour night window.

Heat pump is biggest user by day, for autumn/winter, but even today, i knew we would not use what was left on battery so exported about 6kw, bearing in mind, i am getting 24cent for export. but it was only 7.5 cent to charge the battery.

In summer months were exporting 800 + per month, a combo of excess solar and exporting from battery, which won’t get used

Energia FIT reduced from 24c to 20c from mid January. Hopefully they will also reduce their tariffs by 16% ! I'd expect others to follow, so no point in hopping to another supplier based on FIT.