Neilds
Assistant Pro
What is your monthly mileage?
It costs me about £65 to fill with diesel and I get about 550 miles before I need to fill again so by my reckoning you must be doing almost 2000 miles a month
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It costs me about £65 to fill with diesel and I get about 550 miles before I need to fill again so by my reckoning you must be doing almost 2000 miles a month
PJ87
Journeyman Pro
What is your monthly mileage?
It costs me about £65 to fill with diesel and I get about 550 miles before I need to fill again so by my reckoning you must be doing almost 2000 miles a month
I know our petrol bill went from £200 pcm to £20 for charging and then put £50 a month into the fuel account to cover if and when I fill up the big car .. always money in there now. Covers car washes
Since electric doubled and fuel went up my fuel would have been £300 pcm and charging is now £40 a month .. well it's not due to shift patterns it's less and more but average £40pcm and still £50 for the big car cuz we hardly use it
Mudball
Assistant Pro
What app is that? Mine is clunky..
PJ87
Journeyman Pro
Podpoint but that's the charger itself
Mudball
Assistant Pro
i m trying to sign up on Octopus. It does everything, except the test connection. Keeps saying plug in the car...
I am not sure where the problem is... is it a Charger setting or a Car setting..
Here goes Saturday trying to find the answer.
I am not sure where the problem is... is it a Charger setting or a Car setting..
Here goes Saturday trying to find the answer.
bobmac
Major Champion
Take off all the wheels and then put them back on again, that will do it
PJ87
Journeyman Pro
If all else fails go onto just plan go
However have you checked your car is compatible ? Because your charger isn't
You have to start a normal charge I believe and then it will learn and take control of the car
Mudball
Assistant Pro
Car and charger both listed on the website as part of the sign up process.
The logs at octopus end say
In the charging logs we can see that there is an error coming through which states that the vehicle location is missing.
I looked out of the window and I can see the car is still there.. not sure why they can’t see it
larmen
Head Pro
Should say close and open all the windows, that’s believable, it’s what IT people say to get another hour of break time.Take off all the wheels and then put them back on again, that will do it
PJ87
Journeyman Pro
Mudball
Assistant Pro
If instead of ‘add charger’, if you go add EV’ then in the next step, it will ask for charger and give more options
PJ87
Journeyman Pro
That doesn't mean your charger is compatible, your car is , that's just asking your charger
The only 3 charges compatible are on that list I posted
Mudball
Assistant Pro
I had to stand next to the car while making the switch… finally looks like I have moved to Octopus Intelligent Go. It says it will charge tomorrow morning at 2:30am.
It has been a journey to get this set up. After faffing around for a long time, I cheated by switching on charging. Somehow octopus then made the connection.
Proof is now if it charges tonight
PJ87
Journeyman Pro
Personally now your on I'd just charge every single night 23:30 -05:30 and then do a charge like this once a month
Mudball
Assistant Pro
How do you override them?
PJ87
Journeyman Pro
You don't map them
Just let the charger do the work
You need to map a smart charge for it to be smart which is press the app each time I believe
Fade and Die
Medal Winner
Reading the last few posts does highlight how confusing it can be with the Apps and the chargers. We fittted a BG charger about 9 months ago, guy used to just plug in when he got home, never had a problem. Last week it stopped charging, BG technical said they couldn’t remotely access the charger to say what was going wrong, they suspected the WiFi was too weak. Also to download a different App.. ev.energy.Smart EV
We installed a TP link and installed the App which was a real faff… once done the App could still not see the charger, (but it could see the car and how much battery it had) phoned the App support who told me “faulty charger” they had to send me an email which I had to send to BG so i could get a replacement. We will replace it next week but it does make me worry about what will happen once the charger is out of warranty.
We installed a TP link and installed the App which was a real faff… once done the App could still not see the charger, (but it could see the car and how much battery it had) phoned the App support who told me “faulty charger” they had to send me an email which I had to send to BG so i could get a replacement. We will replace it next week but it does make me worry about what will happen once the charger is out of warranty.
Mudball
Assistant Pro
I will have to DM you to understand that in plain English
Mudball
Assistant Pro
Woke up this morning expecting to herald a new era in our household’s motoring chapter.
Car plugged into the mains and octopus intelligent Go live ready to charge the automagically at 2:30. I would have it ready for a 7am spin.
It was going to be all unicorn milk and electric uplands.
Woke up to … er nothing. Car still saying 40% charged … and no clue what went wrong. There are no logs.
I am going to say that the German car maker would not let a Great British electric company win. In reality it might be a user error
Car plugged into the mains and octopus intelligent Go live ready to charge the automagically at 2:30. I would have it ready for a 7am spin.
It was going to be all unicorn milk and electric uplands.
Woke up to … er nothing. Car still saying 40% charged … and no clue what went wrong. There are no logs.
I am going to say that the German car maker would not let a Great British electric company win. In reality it might be a user error
