Solar PV
Panels on your roof generate electricity during daylight hours. Any power you do not use immediately can be stored in a battery or exported to the grid.
Solar, battery & EV tariff packages
A whole-home setup that generates, stores and charges your electric car cheaply. Designed around your driving, your roof and your meter.
Home battery
A battery stores surplus solar for the evening, and can also top up overnight on a cheap EV tariff so you have low-cost power ready for the morning.
EV charger
A dedicated 7kW wall charger charges your car far faster and more safely than a three-pin socket, with smart scheduling to match cheap-rate periods.
Smart tariff
Time-of-use or EV-specific tariffs can cut the cost of charging and heating by shifting demand to off-peak or low-price windows.
How the whole-home package works
The idea is simple: generate power when the sun is out, store what you do not need straight away, then use that stored energy to run the house and charge the car when it suits you.
With the right tariff, the battery can also buy electricity cheaply overnight and discharge during expensive peak periods. That combination — solar self-consumption, battery arbitrage and scheduled EV charging — is where the biggest savings typically come from.
A typical day
- Morning: the battery tops up the car before you leave, using overnight cheap-rate electricity or stored solar from the previous day.
- Daytime: solar powers the house and any surplus charges the battery.
- Evening: the battery discharges to cover cooking, heating and lighting, avoiding peak-rate imports.
- Overnight: if the tariff has a cheap window, the battery and car recharge ready for the next day.
Why it suits an EV household
- An EV roughly doubles your home electricity demand, so self-generated and stored power becomes more valuable.
- Smart chargers can pause charging when export prices spike and resume when they fall.
- Battery storage smooths out the mismatch between when solar is generated and when the car is plugged in.
- A single installer coordinates panels, battery, charger and metering, so the system is designed to work together.
Tariffs and savings
Savings depend on your roof size, orientation, shading, annual mileage, heating setup and the tariff available in your area. We do not quote guaranteed figures because every home is different; instead, we model your actual usage and show a realistic range.
Our sister business, Pure Volts, can check which smart tariffs and export arrangements suit your meter and region, and whether a battery is worthwhile for your driving pattern.
Free, no-obligation quote from Pure Volts
Pure Volts installs solar PV, battery storage and EV chargers for The EV Collection customers. They will survey your property, check your roof and electrics, review your driving and energy usage, and produce a fixed written quote with no obligation to proceed.
What to expect
- Brief call: we confirm your address, roof type, annual mileage and what you already know about your energy usage.
- Survey: Pure Volts assesses the roof, electrics and meter setup, and checks for shading or structural issues.
- Proposal: you receive a written quote with equipment, expected output, payback range and installation timeline.
- Install: the work is booked and completed by MCS-registered installers where applicable.