Introducing smart charging

Contact our support team at beta@pod-point.com for help.

We’ve simplified the way you schedule your car charging. Rather than having to manually set a fixed start and finish time, simply set when you’d like your car ready by. Every time you plug in, we'll automatically work-out the cheapest time to charge your car, based on your energy tariff, to make sure it’s ready for when you need it.

We connect to your car automatically and calculate how much energy is needed to ensure you reach the charge target set in your car manufacturers app.

If we can't connect to your car, you can set a fixed amount of charge (a percentage %) to put into your battery.

This provides you with the same "cheaper charging" benefits as the previous scheduled charging but allows us the flexibility to optimise your charging within the off-peak window, maximising the benefit to the grid.

If you're on an off-peak tariff, we'll only charge your car at off-peak times when your energy is cheapest. If you haven’t reached your target battery percentage by the time your cheap rate ends, your car will stop charging so we don’t charge you in your more expensive energy rate period.

When you first plug in, we’ll work out if we will meet your target battery percentage in your cheap rate period. If we can’t meet your target, you will get a notification in our app.

If you are on a Smart Tariff such as Intelligent Octopus, Octopus Agile, or Ovo Charge Anytime, then unfortunately you can’t sign up.

We currently support all single or dual/two rate energy tariffs.

Simply download our new Pod Point Home app when prompted in our current Driver app. You’ll need to log in using your usual account credentials. Once you’re logged in, you will be asked to enter information about your car, and when you would like it to be charged by each day.

Smart charging is a new scheme that simplifies your charging experience and makes small changes to your charging patterns to help the electricity grid.

As the use of renewable energy in our energy system increases, we can help balance demands on the grid by adjusting our electricity usage to match the peaks and troughs of wind and solar generation.

As this is a new feature to Pod Point, we’re looking to work with our customers to better understand how we can improve smart charging. In return for helping us shape our services, we’ll reward you up to £25*.