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The Government bless them have mandated all chargers should be "smart". You are not allowed to sell a "dumb" charger anymore. They though every EV driver would come home at 5pm and plug their car in and charge immediately. The grid already being at peak demand would grid to a halt with the additional load.
A fairly pointless mandate because much of the required timers or ability to link with Octopus are built into most cars anyway, in which case you would just need a "dumb" charger. Collectively we have 3 EV's and 2 chargers. With Octopus energy I can only link one smart charger, so the second charger needs dumb with a simple 23:30-05:30 timer. Then I can have all 3 EV's set to charge immediately and it doesn't matter which charger they are plugged into. A better mandate would have been all chargers should have a SIMPLE timer, NOT "smart", not requiring an app or a degree in pigeon English. Simple economics (night time juice being 1/4 the price of day time juice) would incentive most people to charge at night so please BRING BACK DUMB CHARGERS !
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