I tried this clever new way to refill my car and a full tank cost less than £8
I tried this clever new way to refill my car and a full tank cost less than £8
Share:
Refilling your car for under £7 might sound like a pipe dream but it's now a reality. Mirror Online has recently been testing out a very smart device from the team at Ohme that can get your tank from flat to full for less than a tenner. The clever Home Pro charger offers a convenient way to refill your electric car (EV), and with the UK government still hell-bent on getting us moving away from polluting fuels, it's a solution more of us might want to consider in the future.
The small Home Pro box is simply installed on your driveway - by a professional team of electricians - and then uses smart tech to make sure it only tops up your battery at the cheapest times of the day. Many electricity suppliers, such as Octopus, offer ludicrously low-priced energy in the middle of the night, and that's when the Ohme Home Pro gets to work, topping up the power.
All you have to do is plug in your EV when you get home from work, tell the charger what percentage you need in the morning - via the neat smartphone app - and it does the rest. Because it only refills when the cost is low, you'll wake up to a car that's ready to go for the price of a pint. Other than the £1,000 upfront cost for the Pro charging box, the installation process is pretty painless and only takes a couple of hours.
Once it's on your drive, you then link up your phone, tell it the days you want your battery topped up - and by what percentage - and it does the rest of the hard work for you. If you need an instant refill rather than waiting overnight, you can just plug in and hit the charge button - there's even a nifty electronic lock which means no boosting can take place unless you confirm it on your phone. That means the neighbours can't get a cheeky top up when you aren't watching.
-0-15-screenshot-xl.jpg)
