Octopus EV chargers: what you can buy and what it costs

What Octopus sells

Octopus installs four home chargers: its own Octopus Charge, the Ohme ePod and Home Pro, and the Hypervolt Home 3 Pro. Prices include a standard installation and VAT. They are set by region, but Octopus does not publish how postcodes map to the three price bands below, so you only see your price after entering a postcode on its EV charger page. Octopus pays us nothing for that link today.

Octopus Charge is the odd one out. It launched in June 2025 at £899 untethered and £999 tethered, according to This is Money, so the London price has risen by £130. It is 7.4kW, IP65, built to work with Intelligent Octopus Go, and connects over 4G with Wi-Fi as an alternative. Its warranty is three years, or five for £79 extra, and only valid if an Octopus-trained engineer fitted it. Octopus does not document load balancing for it. The untethered version has no cable, and a holster is £25. We have not yet published a dedicated review of it.

What the standard installation covers

Octopus says a standard installation includes the charger, the labour and everything needed for a basic job: up to 10m of cable clipped to the wall, mounting on brick or plaster, testing, the safety certificate and a test charge. The Octopus-listed fitted price covers notifying the electricity network operator too. Expect the visit to take roughly four hours.

Extras are published and fixed:

• Longer cable runs: up to 20m costs £125 extra, up to 30m £250, and 30m or more £350.
• Trench to a garage or outbuilding: you dig it. Octopus says it handles the wiring and leaves the shovelling to you.
• Charger post: £475, with groundworks arranged and paid for by you.
• Longer tethered lead: +£50 for Ohme’s 8m cable, +£100 for Hypervolt’s 10m.
• Changing your install date: the terms allow a fee of up to £250.

Octopus installs through its own engineers, so you cannot buy the hardware alone and ask your own electrician to fit it. That is the price of the single point of contact.

How it ties in with your tariff

You do not need to be an Octopus electricity customer. Octopus says its chargers work with any tariff and that anyone can apply. The tie-in is the smart rate. Intelligent Octopus Go gives 7.6p per kWh for up to six hours of smart charging in every 24 (scheduled by Octopus at any time of day), with a home off-peak window of 23:30 to 05:30. The day rate is 34.96p to 38.82p, and there is a £50 exit fee on the fixed version. At 0.301 kWh a mile, that is 2.29p a mile against 7.92p on the capped standard rate.

The charger matters less than the tariff here. A forum worry on Speak EV is being tied to Octopus for smart features if you leave: Octopus Charge needs an Octopus app account even when another company supplies your electricity, and on a rival tariff it falls back to manual schedules or plug-and-charge. Ohme, by contrast, runs its own app and supports other tariffs through manual or custom settings.

Octopus or buying independently

The price gap is the main thing. Our installation cost guide shows that national fitted prices cluster at £949 to £999, so Octopus Charge (£999 to £1,079) is close to that range, while the Ohme and Hypervolt prices (£1,049 to £1,299) sit above it. Check that quotes are like for like: cable length, VAT and the exclusions above.

Free chargers and discounts

People often ask whether Octopus gives chargers away. We could not find a free-charger offer on Octopus’s pages. What exists is smaller. If you rent, or own a flat with a private parking space, the OZEV grant pays 75% of the cost up to £500, and Octopus takes it off the quote for you. You must already own an EV. Octopus Electric Vehicles lease and salary-sacrifice customers see “£400 off a home charger” on their offers page. Owner-occupiers of a house with a driveway get nothing from the grant: see our grants guide.