Content by Chris H in December, 2025

Yep, you're right on that. Sorry for misunderstanding you.

It's the scheduling by them that is the whole point of IOG and the reason they call it 'intelligent'. They can schedule it when energy is cheap for them, thus allowing your car to get charged outside the normal 6hr cheap time and still only get charged at the cheap rate. If you don't want that...

So yesterday the car was at 49%, so I set it to add 45% to be ready by 08:30. While it was still charging I checked the charging rates. Zappi was saying the power was 7.2kW, yet the MG was saying 6.6kW (see screenshots). When it had finished Zappi says it had added 31.05kWh (which is 50% of the...

The whole point is that Octopus do the scheduling, not you.

I use intelligent Octopus Go for my charging, with a Zappi charger. The way it works is that you tell Octopus what charger you have and what car you have when setting it up. To charge, you can plug in any time of day and you say you want it to add X% charge by a certain time, and Octopus...

Is this a thing? My S5 turns on when I sit in the seat, not when I press anything.

I have a 100A fuse but the charger has a limit of 31.8A according to Zappi. Nominal voltage is 230V so that makes around 7.3kW 🤷🏻‍♂️

I've had Renault, VW, Mercedes, Jaguar, Honda, Vauxhall, BMW, Ford, MG and probably others. I don't remember having had a car where the mirror heaters (if it had them) didn't turn on with the rear demister.

I get 7.2kW charging at home with my Zappi 🤷🏻‍♂️