You will still be able to charge your vehicle if you've reached the maximum rewards limit within a 12-month period, but you won't receive any further cash rewards during that time. Your maximum rewards limit will reset again on the anniversary of the date you signed up to Pod Rewards.
By signing up to Pod Rewards, you will be able to earn rewards in the form of miles which can be withdrawn as cash. You'll have a maximum amount of rewards you can earn each year, this begins from the day you sign up, and resets at the year anniversary of the date you signed up.
Each time you successfully complete a smart charge, you will earn miles. Miles used can be tracked in our app in your Wallet and withdrawn to your bank account once your balance is above £10.
You will still need to pay your energy supplier for your electricity as normal.
Each smart charged mile is paid at 2.3p per mile. A Mile is not equivalent to a real world driving mile. Pod Rewards miles are earned at a rate of 0.875 miles per kWh charged. Maximum £103.50 reward per customer, per year, based on individual charging behaviour.
Some car manufacturers, such as Mini and older models of the Nissan Leaf, don’t provide an option to change the target battery percentage (%). In these cases, we will always aim to charge your car to 100%. If you’re on an off-peak tariff, we will charge your car as much as possible during those hours.
Yes! Once you have connected your first vehicle, simply go to your Account settings > My EVs to add another vehicle. There is no limit to the number of vehicles you can add.
You can override any smart charging schedule using our 'Boost' feature, which will charge your car straight away.
Any charging sessions completed using the 'Boost' feature aren't smart charged and therefore won’t earn rewards or be eligible for cashing out.
If you have connected to your car
You will see in the Pod Home app that this information is greyed out. You will need to update your target battery percentage (%) in your car manufacturers app. Once updated in your car manufacturers app, it will update the Pod Home app too.
If you haven’t connected to your car
You can update the amount of energy you would like to add to your car each time you plug in (e.g. +20%), directly in the Pod Home app using the Top Up Battery module on the Homescreen.
We’ve simplified the way you schedule your car charging. Simply let us know when you need your car charged by and plug in. We’ll then create a custom schedule to charge your car when energy is cheapest for you.
We can connect to your car 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 your previous scheduled charging but allows us the flexibility to optimise your charging within the off-peak window, maximising the benefit to the grid.
As the use of renewable energy in our energy system increases, we can help balance demands on the grid by adjusting energy usage to match the peaks and troughs of wind and solar generation.
All you have to do is plug in your car and we’ll do the rest - ensuring your car is always charged when your energy prices are cheapest.
Whenever you smart charge, you'll be earning rewards that can be withdrawn as cash.
The subscription owner will be the first user linked to a Pod Point charger, to sign up for a subscription. The subscription owner can:
- See the total rewards that can be earned
- View the transactions associated with the charger linked to smart charge events and any miles earned towards the maximum rewards total.
- View and manage the bank accounts used to pay out miles into as cash
Pod Rewards is a cost-free subscription, you’ll be subscribing to our smart charging services - for which there is no charge.
Instead you agree to use our Pod Home app to smart charge your EV or EVs via your existing Pod Point home charger and earn rewards in return.
Any user linked to your Pod Point home charger can choose to subscribe, but there can only be one subscription owner.