For the attention of Victron Staff -
Octopus Energy UK have just announced the launch of their own brand EV Charger - Octopus Charge. See link to the press release below.
As Octopus Energy is now the largest energy provider in the UK and offers a range of highly price competitive smart tariffs, the cheapest for EV charging being Octopus Intelligent Go, I can see this new charger being a popular and well received new product to market.
We have recently installed one of your EVCS NS chargers for our own EV charging because we wanted seamless integration with our Victron based solar and battery system. So far it has been working well when charging our car from excess solar.
However, your EV chargers are still one of the few brands that are not compatible with the Octopus Intelligent smart tariffs. Please, please can you kindly ask part of your development enable compatibility with the smart tariffs that are available in the UK market.
When it gets to winter time, we will definitely want to be on the Intelligent Octopus Go tariff and hope your charger will be compatible by then, otherwise I can see us swapping your unit out for one that is, even if it means another separate app and no integration with VRM.
You will loose a big chunk of any potential UK sales market share of EV chargers (& likely other countries too that have smart tariffs) for grid tied customers running Victron systems if you don’t achieve Smart tariff comparability.