Ev / charging cost woes

[westfield_bumble]

This starts with a confession that I bought an ev as a daily 😤 purely financial reasons with a 90mile daily commute

 

So since i've bought my ev electric use has gone mental. Was paying £70 a month now paying £275 but I've opted to pay £30 a month for unlimited charging. On digging into the figures it appears  my meter is doubling the readings and I really dont know how far back this goes. When the car is charging in a half hour period on ohme during the night its registering 3.2- 3.4 kw/h where as the electric provider its registering as 7.4kw/h -7.8 kw/h  in a half hour period. My single phase charger can't achieve this and this is through the night when its mostly standby usage in the home. I've also discovered when I trickle charged the car before my charger was installed it had similar behaviour. Charger is only capable of approx 1.8kw/h yet the electric companys recording 3.4kw/h. 

I'm in talks with the supplier!!! Just wondering if anyone else has had similar experience. 

 

I've discivered the goverment recommend a metre to be calibrated every 5years or the manufacturers recomendation. The manufacturer wont speak to public only the purchaser. I've never heard of anyone having a metre calibrated. 

 

The supplier has referred me to the metering team as it could be a "known issue". This I find mad as if I hadnt bought the ev I would never of known I was possibly over paying as I thought I was just a heavy user. Scarey 😱😱😱

 

I fitted this https://amzn.eu/d/aqZH4oS today so I can monitor my consumption. It will take a few days as my smart metre readings are a few days behind to be able to compare

 

 

[Stuart]

Good luck. I've been fighting EDF for 4 months now cos they had two leccy smart meters and one gas listed at our new house when there's def only one of each. Recently they replaced both gas and leccy meters with new having said that was the only way to solve the problem. Guess what - I now have 3 leccy and 2 gas meters on my account and they're ignoring me. So I'll be off to the ombudsman on Monday

[dvd8n]

Whilst I'm not a fan of EVs myself I recognise that for some people they make good financial sense depending upon their use case.  With that out of the way...

 

My recent experiences with trying to get my mother switched from a teleswitch to a smart meter has left me with no illusions as to the depths of ineptitude to which the electricity companies are capable of sinking.  

 

The exact bodies vary depending upon where you live in the UK but don't be reticent in getting the ombudsman or local equivalent involved in your case.  It may be the only way to get past the foreign call centre minion and on to someone who can actually sort non-routine stuff out.

[dvd8n]

35 minutes ago, Stuart said:

I've been fighting EDF for 4 months now

 

Yep, EDF.  10 months and counting.  I could tell you the sorry tale of rank ineptitude but I'd still be typing tomorrow.

 

They've ****ed up in every possible way that you can imagine plus some really inventive ways that you can't possibly even conceive of.

[Captain Colonial]

6 minutes ago, dvd8n said:

 

Yep, EDF.  10 months and counting.  I could tell you the sorry tale of rank ineptitude but I'd still be typing tomorrow.

My next door neighbour had solar panels installed at his GP surgery to charge his EV.  It needs a three-phase supply and meter, which 6 months on hasn’t even come close to starting to be installed.  Yes, EDF is the hold-up. 🤦‍♂️

[evosteve]

In the Southwest (SWEB) old school meters were changed every 8 years and calibrated at the Newton Abbot calibration centre. It was a legal requirement then, how things have changed!

[westfield_bumble]

Well i was hoping for a bit of hope 🤣 guess I came to the wrong forum 🤣🤣🤣 its the 8 legged sea creature i'm with.  A "known issue" scares me as it just sounds like nothings been done to sort. I've read of this type of thing all been caused due to the metre clock been half an hour out 😱😱😱 scarey to think I may never of known had I not bought an ev. 

 

Another sore point is I spend more time turning things off and looking for the right screen than driving. But hey thats just the way its gone. We arent trusted to think while we drive.  Give me back switches and dials. But the bonus being It just makes getting in an analogue westy even better. Clense the sole of the ev 💩

[dvd8n]

I wonder if the electric companies are struggling generally because of the teleswitch switch off.  it does seem to have overwhelmed EDF.