What is Amber for EVs?

Smartening up EV charging has been a core part of our mission since we started Amber, since EVs are one of the biggest users of household electricity and their uptake is increasing like never before. Shifting when EVs charge can make a big difference to how much green energy you use and the cost of your power.

Read on to find out how you can take advantage of Amber for EVs, while helping us continue testing and improving this rapidly development product!

If you have a compatible EV or charger, we look forward to hearing your feedback on the product so we can keep improving. We’ve made it super easy for you to share your thoughts via our feedback widget in the Amber for EVs portion of the app.

Huge thanks to our 200 Amber customers who tested out the very early version of Amber for EVs, helping us to get it to where it is today!

Key features in Amber for EVs today

After talking to a lot of EV owners, we’ve designed this product to give EV owners a simple way to enjoy smarter EV charging.

Some of the key features in Amber for EVs today include:

• Solar charging: A smart way to get more free kilometres - A4EVs enables you to automatically charge from your excess solar only (if you have it) without having to invest in extra hardware or subscribe to other apps
• Cheap and green charging: Automatically take advantage of times when grid energy is cheapest and greenest (handy if your solar falls short, or if you don't have solar) and stop charging when energy is expensive
• Recovery charging: Tell us your minimum comfortable battery charge level and we’ll make sure you charge faster when you need to get back up to that level

What makes Amber for EVs different?

It might sound strange, but we want to help you do more of what benefits you, not us. Whether that’s charging from your solar, rather than just the grid energy we can sell you, or even paying you to charge when wholesale prices go negative (yes, that's right - with Amber wholesale prices fluctuate, even going into negative territory every now and again. This means we pay you to use energy at these times!).

It all comes down to our subscription model, which means we don’t make money off each kilowatt hour of energy you use like other companies. This means we can stay super focused on helping you do more of what you want - not more of what benefits us. It also means we don’t encourage you to charge overnight just so that we can keep our coal plants running profitably, like other energy companies do (in fact, we don't have any coal plants!).