Most smart chargers only think about now. They check the price, check your battery, and decide whether to charge. That works fine on a grey winter night. But if you've got solar panels on your roof, "now" is the wrong question, because the sun is coming up in a few hours, and most of that free, clean power will go to waste if your car is already full by the time it arrives.

Gridio's new next-day solar charging fixes that. Every evening, before your car starts charging, Gridio looks at tomorrow's solar forecast for your address and plans around it, so more of your charge comes from your own roof and less from your utility bill.

How it works

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You still set the one thing that matters: when the car needs to be ready. That deadline never moves. Gridio just gets smarter about how it fills it.

A Tuesday night, two ways

Say it's Tuesday evening. Your car's at 40%, and you need it at 90% by 7 a.m. Wednesday.

• Without next-day solar: the charger fills the battery from the grid sometime overnight. You wake up to a full car, paid for entirely with grid electricity.
• With next-day solar: Gridio sees Wednesday looks sunny between 8 and 11 a.m. It charges partway overnight on the cheapest grid hours, then leaves headroom so your panels can finish the job once the sun's up. Same 7 a.m. deadline, same full battery, but more of those kilometres came off your own roof.

What if the forecast is wrong?

Weather changes its mind. So Gridio watches actual solar production through the morning and compares it against what was predicted. If the sun underperforms, an unexpected cloud front, a grey morning that wasn't in the forecast, the system quietly tops up from the grid before your deadline.

Your car always leaves fully charged. The only thing you'd lose is a solar bonus that was never going to show up anyway. This check runs every few minutes, which is what turns "nice forecast" into "something you can build your morning around."

What you actually get

You're still the one in control

• Set a daily ready-by time, or a different one for each day of the week.
• Turn it on or off per car. Prefer pure price-based charging without the forecast? One toggle away.
• Real-time solar capture keeps working during the day too. If your panels are producing more than the house needs while you're home, your car gets first call on it.

Inverter connected Pair your solar inverter in seconds – no hardware, no electrician

Your settings, your rules Set your solar threshold and ready-by time – Gridio does the rest

Solar charging active Gridio tracks your live solar output and adjusts charging in real time

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