Charging at home

Charging at home, if you can, is the best, easiest and cheapest way to charge your car.If you charge overnight your energy is greener and cheaper, our clever EV tariffs make sure your car's ready to go in the morning. Just plug in when you get home and we’ll do the rest.

Most homes can power a 7kW charger, so charging your car this way overnight should give you a full charge.. Typically you’ll get about 25 - 30 miles of charge for every hour your car’s plugged in.

We recommend for day to day use, charging to 85% no matter how many miles you do. This will look after your battery in the long term. If you plug in overnight with Intelligent Octopus Go, you can set your target % in the Octopus app to make sure you have all the charge you need when you wake up.

As little as 2p per mile if you charge overnight with Intelligent Octopus Go. How? Because green energy is the cheapest energy, especially when overall demand is low.. It seeks the cheapest and greenest energy for you. We guarantee a cheaper rate when demand on the grid is lower, normally overnight.

• Set your car battery to charge to around 85%. This means you’ll always have enough charge for a decent journey, but that also looks after the battery in the long run.
• You can heat or cool most cars from your app. iIf you do this while the car’s plugged in, it’ll draw power from the charger rather than the battery. So In the winter, you’ll have a defrosted car that’s nice and cosy and still full of energy. When you get home in the evening, plug it in and let the process happen again.
• Your charging connection (Type 2 charging) is the European standard meaning you can plug in at hotels and campsites across Europe.