Derek Riley

So I always go longer if you can and put it somewhere that it'll suit a lot of different cars because you might change your car in three years time and obviously the charger is still going to be there.

So you want to be able to reach all four corners of the car in the car parking space.

And then there's a smart charger or a dumb charger.

Really, the dumb charger is like a socket on the wall.

You can't tell it when to stop, when to start.

Some cars will allow you to do that.

But then there's smart chargers.

So the one that I have at the moment is the new Zappy Glow from My Energy.

And it can do both.

You can turn all the smarts off.

It'll just be a dumb socket.

Plug in, it'll charge.

Plug out, it'll stop.

Or you can tell it, I only want you to turn on between 11 o'clock at night and 8 o'clock in the morning.

So my tariff is with SSE Electricity.

I know that's when the cheaper rate is going to be for me.

And it'll only, even though I plug it in at 7 o'clock in the evening, it'll only kick on at 11 o'clock at night.

And then the following morning, it'll kick off at 8 o'clock in the morning because that's when it goes into daytime rate.

And so you can be a smart ers.

And then there's some of them out there that will say, I'll only put energy into the car when there's enough solar.