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Intelligent Octopus

The next generation tariff for electric vehicle charging

Hands-free smart charging. Six hours of super cheap energy every night.

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The easiest and cheapest way to home charge your EV

Put us in charge

Use the Octopus Energy app to set how much you'd like to charge up, and by what time – and we'll handle the rest. Intelligent Octopus pairs with your EV or charger to optimise your charging to the very greenest times, and always on your super cheap rate.

Cheap power for hours

Get six hours of cheap, green energy from 11.30 pm to 5.30 am every night, for home and charging. You can save up to £200 a year vs. Octopus Go.

Charging at your fingertips

With our handy, hassle-free app, you're in control. Tell us when you need your car charged, and by how much. Track your energy spend at a glance, broken down by charging and home use.

Need your car sooner? Bump Charge from the app at any time to charge your car at normal rates.

Any questions?

Read our Intelligent Octopus FAQs

Join 1,000s of customers on Intelligent Octopus

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When combined with solar generation in the day we are very pleased with the average daily pence per kWh. The website and app make it all easy to monitor and manage.

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Love Octopus Energy. I have been with them a few years now and am currently testing a beta Intelligent charging product which is going really well!

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Want Intelligent Octopus?

You need either an Octopus-compatible EV OR charger

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Plus many more! More compatible chargers and electric vehicles coming soon.

OR you can sign up with any EV with an Ohme charger

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You can join Intelligent if...

You’re an Octopus Energy customer

If you’re not an Octopus customer yet, you can sign up now

You have a compatible car OR charging system

We can currently connect with Tesla, Jaguar, Land Rover, Ford, Audi, BWM, Mini, Skoda and Volkswagen (excluding ID models), OR any car that uses an Ohme charger.

You have an iOS or Android smartphone to manage smart charging via our app

Intelligent Octopus is a product of our labs, available now to customers through our beta programme

Intelligent Octopus is a beta product. Some things may not work the first time, and installations and processes may take longer than we'd like. Third party tech like In-home Displays won't always work, and on occasion data issues with smart meters can take significant time to fix or prevent things from working at all.

If you're cool with this, and you'd still like to work with us to make world-changing energy tariffs a reality, check this box so we know you're on board. You will always be able to switch to one of our fairly priced standard tariffs at any time.

I'm ok with this!

Already an Octopus customer?

Not yet with Octopus?

No problem. We'll get you up and running, and install a smart meter if you need one at no extra charge.

En route to Intelligent Octopus

What happens next? We'll help make your journey to Intelligent Octopus as smooth as can be, and keep you updated along the way.

Sign up and download the Octopus Energy app

Use the Octopus Energy app to get set up, switch tariffs and control your Smart Charging.

Download app on the Google Play App Store

Hang tight while we get your smart meter set up

Intelligent Octopus only works in homes with a smart meter that sends us half hourly readings. That's second generation SMETS2 meters and some types of SMETS1 meters. Not sure what type you have?

If you don't already have one, we can arrange to install a SMETS2 smart meter at no extra cost. These are suitable for most homes (with some exceptions). Everything you need to know about smart meters with Octopus.

It typically takes us 14 days to connect to your smart meter. We'll let you know once we're ready to roll.