Charging your vehicle at home can be quite taxing on your electrical installation. With Smappee smart charging, you can optimise your charging sessions by maximising self-consumption of your solar production, and by charging during the cheapest possible periods.
Before you can use smart charging, a few conditions need to be met:
Your charging station needs to be linked to an installation that measures your connection to the grid, using either:
On the Home version of our charging stations, grid measurement is built in. The EV Base or Business version require a separate Infinity installation.
Smart charging is available on:
- EV Wall
- EV One
- EV Base
- EV Dual
Smart charging is not available on the Lite versions of our charging stations.
To actually charge at the cheapest moments, Smappee needs to know your electricity tariffs. Without this set up, the system has no way to know which moments are cheap or expensive, so it can't optimise around price at all. There are two types of tariffs, set up in a different place depending on which one applies to your energy contract:
- Static tariffs, a fixed price (or a simple day/night split) that doesn't change automatically: How to correctly set up my tariffs in the app
- Dynamic tariffs, a price that changes per hour or quarter based on the real-time market price: How to setup dynamic tariffs?
You can set up smart charging in both the Smappee app and the Smappee Dashboard:
- Via the app: How to set up smart charging in the Smappee app?
- Via the Dashboard: How to set up smart charging via the Smappee Dashboard?
- Solar charging (previously "Solar only"): Smart charging - Solar charging
- Schedules (and surplus): Smart charging - schedules (and surplus)