Pick your car and tell us how far you drive. We'll price the charging on every electricity plan in South East Queensland, including the EV plans from OVO, ENGIE, GloBird and CovaU, each on its own hours and rates, so you can see when the car would charge and what it pays.
The rates come from the government's Energy Made Easy data and are refreshed every hour. No retailer pays us, and none can pay to be listed higher.
Read: how to charge at home for less.
⚠️ This is the charging only. A plan with cheap charging can have a dear peak rate or supply charge, and that lands on the rest of your bill. Each plan shows both, so you can see the catch. To find the cheapest plan for your house and car together, check your whole household.
Not listed: spot-price plans, whose rates move with the wholesale market, and plans with a demand charge, which bills on your busiest half-hour. A wall charger can set that on its own.
Charging is one part of what you pay. Upload your bill and we'll price your whole household on every plan, with your car already added in. It's free and takes about 30 seconds.
Check your whole household →The car goes with you in the link, so there's nothing to enter twice.
We price the EV plans that are in the government's Energy Made Easy data: OVO's The EV Plan, ENGIE's EV Flex Charge, GloBird's EASYEV and CovaU's EVMax, along with every ordinary plan. AGL's Night Saver EV and Powershop's EV plans aren't in that data yet, so we can't price them, and we couldn't find Origin's EV Power Up under that name either (Origin's Night Shift plan is in the data, so it's priced here). Check those with the retailer. If they turn up in the data, they'll appear on this page without us changing anything.
The cheapest place to charge the car isn't always the cheapest plan. A plan built for EV charging often makes up the difference somewhere else: a higher peak rate, a longer peak, or a bigger supply charge. If your house runs the air conditioning and the oven in those hours, that can cost more than the car saves.
BillCheck reads your actual bill and prices your real usage on every plan, with the car added in the hours it would charge. Your current plan gets the car too, so the saving is a fair comparison.
Most time-of-use plans in South East Queensland have their cheapest rate in the middle of the day, and charge overnight at the shoulder rate. The plans that make overnight cheap are mostly EV plans, and some of those are only for EV owners.
If the car is home during the day, midday is worth a look. If it's only home at night, an EV plan is usually where the savings are.
Some plans cap the cheap rate. In October 2026, GloBird's EASYEV and CovaU's EVMax charged 6c for the first 30 kWh a day in their cheap hours, then their normal rate. The house counts toward that 30 kWh too. We price the limit, so a big week of driving shows what it would really cost.
A normal power point charges at about 2.3 kW, so a six-hour cheap window puts in about 14 kWh. That's roughly 70 km in a typical car. A 7 kW wall charger puts in about 42 kWh in the same six hours.
A power point also loses more on the way. About 14% of what it draws never reaches the battery, against about 7% for a wall charger. If your driving doesn't fit into the cheap hours, the rest goes in at a dearer rate, and we price it that way. The working, scheduling and the Solar Sharer free hours are in our guide to charging at home.
For some, yes. ENGIE's EV Flex Charge and OVO's The EV Plan are only for people who own an electric car or plug-in hybrid. Others with EV in the name, like GloBird's EASYEV and CovaU's EVMax, are open to anyone with a smart meter. Each plan above says which.
None of the plans in the government data asked for a wall charger when we checked in October 2026. A power point counts.
If you have panels and the car is home in the day, it can charge from them. That power isn't free. It's power you'd otherwise export, so it costs the feed-in credit you give up. On a feed-in of a few cents, that's the cheapest charging there is.
On Queensland's old 44c Solar Bonus Scheme it works the other way. Every kWh the car takes from the panels costs you 44c, which is more than buying it from the grid at night. Charge at night and keep the 44c. This page doesn't know about your panels; BillCheck reads them off your bill and prices it properly.