Cheapest time to charge your electric car
Tell us about your car and when you need it. We'll find the cheapest – or the greenest – time to charge on Octopus Agile in South East England, up to four days ahead, and tell you exactly what to set.
Start Tuesday 23:00, finishing Wednesday · 5 hours at 32 A · 7.4 kW
30% → 80% · adds 30.0 kWh, about 99 miles (33.3 kWh from the grid) · ready by Wed 07:00
More than a standard tariff: on the price cap the same charge would cost about £8.96 (9.1p a mile).
Emits about 3.3 kg CO₂ (99 g/kWh), charging on a grid 44 per cent cleaner than now.
Prices until Wed 07:00
| Half hour | Price | Battery after |
|---|---|---|
| Tue 3 Nov 23:00 | 34.6p/kWh | 36% |
| Tue 3 Nov 23:30 | 35.2p/kWh | 41% |
| Wed 4 Nov 00:00 | 34.1p/kWh | 47% |
| Wed 4 Nov 00:30 | 35.1p/kWh | 52% |
| Wed 4 Nov 01:00 | 35.7p/kWh | 58% |
| Wed 4 Nov 01:30 | 35.1p/kWh | 63% |
| Wed 4 Nov 02:00 | 35.4p/kWh | 69% |
| Wed 4 Nov 02:30 | 34.8p/kWh | 74% |
| Wed 4 Nov 03:00 | 35.0p/kWh | 80% |
| Wed 4 Nov 03:30 | 34.5p/kWh | 80% |
p/kWh including VAT, half-hourly. All of these are Octopus's published prices.
How this works
Prices are exact once Octopus publishes them, at about 4pm the day before. Later prices are estimates, so check back after 4pm. Costs are for the electricity only, at 90 per cent charging efficiency.
Prices from the Octopus Energy API; carbon intensity from the Carbon Intensity API by NESO (CC BY 4.0); weather forecasts from the Met Office (© Crown copyright, CC BY-SA 4.0) and ECMWF (CC BY 4.0); market data from Bundesnetzagentur | SMARD.de via Energy-Charts (CC BY 4.0). Renewably isn't affiliated with any of them.