Once you select the Smart Charging tile on the Home Screen of your tado° app, you can click on Link your vehicle to connect
an EV
and/or
a charger.
If both an EV and a charger are connected, tado° can manage the car's charging sessions by sending “start” and “stop” signals to the charging station. This way, your car will charge during the cheapest and most sustainable moments of your energy tariff. Of course, the goal is to make sure your car is charged to your chosen battery level by your specified departure time.
Check the other FAQs about how you contribute to balancing the energy grid.
The advantage of supporting different home charger brands is that any EV, regardless of its connectivity with the tado° app, can be a part of our grid balancing services, and more drivers join our Smart Charging community!
Non-connected Car:
tado° can only retrieve information about the battery status of your EV if your EV is connected with Smart Charging in the tado° app. If your car is not connected, you have to manually configure a Smart Charging Session, and while doing so, you have to set the current battery level.
Due to our intelligent steering, tado° will charge the car at the most beneficial moments; however, sometimes, we can start charging sooner than you would expect.
Connected Car:
When you use a connectable charging station with a connected car, tado° will steer the charging process via the charging station based on your car data. This provides tado° with more insights and allows you to smart charge your car with even more functionalities.
In the Smart Charging in the tado° app, you can set the Schedule and within it the Charge target, and the Battery reserve.
Schedule:
When you connect the charging cable to your car, and after the first update with the tado° App, we will stop the charging, and will start again depending on which Schedule you’ve set. In it, you can set your departure times for every day of the week. You can also change the target abruptly whenever you want, at a later point, from the same screen where you’ve set your Schedule initially.
Charge target:
You can set the desired battery level to be reached during the cheapest hours and the battery reserve, which will represent the battery state to which the vehicle will be immediately charged, regardless of the energy prices. This cannot be set per day.
Once you’ve plugged in your vehicle and the vehicle is at its home location, you will be able to access the Details of the Charging plan from the “Smart Charging” screen as well.
In the Settings that you can access from that “Smart Charging“ screen in the upper right corner, you will find:
Linked vehicles & Chargers:
The list helps you have an overview of all your linked devices. You can also disconnect a device if needed within Edit.
Solar panels:
These settings help you add the details about your solar panels, such as information about the peak power in kW capacity, direction, and tilt.
Lastly, from the same screen in the upper right corner, only directly next to the vehicle icon, you can view the History of the Charging Sessions. Here you will also find more information about how the costs and savings are calculated.