[ProximusAl]

If it’s OctopusGo then 37.5p kw/h peak, 7.5 off. That’s what I’ve renewed at. Was 15p and 5p 😞

 

[ProximusAl]

Ouch

Yup, especially when both cars are electric powered 😒

 

[ProximusAl]

So they are giving you a decent rate for 4 hours but then charging you a higher rate for the remaining 20 hours. Mine is 28.2p kw/h all hours on standard tariff with SSE.

Now correct me if I am wrong but if I was using just 1kw per hour then my daily cost would be £6.77. With Octopus the cost would be £7.80 so unless you want to use the shower, cook, wash, tumble dry or whatever after 00.30 hours I really can't see a decent benefit.

What does the car draw in kw/h.

The PHEV pulls 3.6kw per hour, the mustang 7.3kw

 

[ProximusAl]

Oh I should add, I’m on Octopus Go Faster, so 4 hours from 21:30, and got my peak rate slightly wrong…it’s 35.05p.

 

[ProximusAl]

I was trying to work out if it's beneficial to be on a cheaper rate night tariff with Octopus if you have a PHEV.

If it takes 6 hours to charge the car then your cost to charge is £3.60. That cost would be £6.09 on my tariff.

Looking at my 168kw usage for last month then your tariff is definitely better if you have a PHEV. For me though my cost would equate to 17.4p per mile for a PHEV based on 35 miles per charge compared with 21.6p per mile for diesel. If electric goes up in October as predicted by 30% then it would actually cost me more to run a PHEV compared with diesel based on my standard tariff and the additional purchase cost of a PHEV. Obviously if fuel increases accordingly with electric, as it will, then I would expect the cost difference to be linear.

It is ironic to think that ours and the European governments have been pushing for hybrid and electric cars to save the planet and then do nothing, or very little, about the soaring energy prices and last week confirmed that all grants for electric vehicles are to be stopped. I guess the plan could be to just force everyone to drive less miles no matter what they drive.

Yes, it's less than ideal. The PHEV only takes 3 hours to fully charge so works for me, but here's the irony.

I managed to fix on that rate now for 12 months, so protects me from October, but if I didn't have an EV, the cheapest fix rate on Octopus currently is 42p. Variable is about 28p, but no October protection if I did that.

The wife drives the PHEV so it gets charged at home, I generally charge the Mustang at work, so I don't pay for that

All in all, for me, it is currently cheaper for me to have a PHEV and EV given what I was spending on fuel, but only by about half the amount of cash. Before the energy stupidity, it was a no brainer.