Hi. Have just swapped an Octavia PHEV for a Superb. The option to set departure times in infotainment and the app seem to be missing, how do I set it to charge at off peak rates?

Thanks

As far as I know, you can't do that from the MyŠkoda app, unfortunately

6 minutes ago, Badelhas said:

As far as I know, you can't do that from the MyŠkoda app, unfortunately

It seems that you're right, and no option in the car either. Strange decision.

It's not ideal like with the regular EV's from Skoda but I have a wall charger that can be told to charge off-peak or only-charge up until x kW (for matching solar input) and the car happily waits for a charge start.

Taking it even further I can over that wall charger from my home automation to make sure it's a peak (100%) charge when my wife needs it to get to work. (100+ km roundtrip)

My specific charger is a Zaptec Go 2 and I use Home Assistant but other combinations have been reported to achieve similar results.

I did not know the difference in Skoda app capabilities compared to their EV's but have never felt I missed out on anything.

6 minutes ago, ausernamedtom said:

It's not ideal like with the regular EV's from Skoda but I have a wall charger that can be told to charge off-peak or only-charge up until x kW (for matching solar input) and the car happily waits for a charge start.

Taking it even further I can over that wall charger from my home automation to make sure it's a peak (100%) charge when my wife needs it to get to work. (100+ km roundtrip)

My specific charger is a Zaptec Go 2 and I use Home Assistant but other combinations have been reported to achieve similar results.

I did not know the difference in Skoda app capabilities compared to their EV's but have never felt I missed out on anything.

I've decided to invest in a proper wall charger. The three pin was ok with the Octavia iv I px'd for the Superb (had a timer and a slow charging battery small enough to charge on off peak).

Anyway, what a car! A bigger step up from the Octavia than I expected.

Hi all. Apparently Seat/Cupra and VW have released a software update that installs a charge scheduling function to the latest generation PHEVs.

Skoda UK have referred me to a dealer to check whether Skoda can do this.

Has anyone got any news?

I have a granny charger and Octopus Intelligent Go. Octopus controls the charging perfectly 👍

You can set departure and max charge percentage and cap to off peak only if you like. Can also boost charge of you are peak and need to charge. Works off location and handshake with Skoda to know when plugged in and stopped/start charging.

Edited 1 hour ago1 hr by Dubb3rz

I have the same set up. It works about 75% of the time. However, sometimes it fails to charge altogether. Others (like now), Octopus says the car is not plugged in at home when it is. Has been like this for the 6 months I've owned the car. I suspect it's an issue with the car, not Octopus.

Does it work faultlessly for you?

Edited 1 hour ago1 hr by AndySmith1707
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I'd say higher than 75% of the time. I just have to check charge port is green when I plug in then I check the schedules been created by Octopus

Do you ever get the false 'not plugged in when it is issue?

If it says unplugged I unplug and plug it back it. I think this is a backend issue with the 'handshake'

It's happened twice today, rebooting information seems to fix it, so it seems to be a car thing, not Octopus.

Sounds far more frequent than mine based on that.