New to eon, waiting to get onto Next Drive tariff

  • fireplex's Avatar
    Level 5
    I joined eon and selected the Next Drive tariff, I went live on 6/12 with Next Flex and it says switch in progress on my dashboard.

    How much longer will I need to wait to get onto Next Drive?
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    Indyk_EONNext's Avatar
    Community Team
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    Heyy @fireplex

    Welcome to Eon Next, 😊 if you have completed a quote for the Next drive when switching to us then the onboarding can take around 21 days.

    The EV team will be working on this to make sure your current smart meters are able to send us the half hourly data required.

    If there is anything else you need please let us know. 💜
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  • GrayStoke's Avatar
    Level 2
    @fireplex @fireplex
    Sorry to be the bearer of bad news but I signed up over a month ago and I am still waiting to be transferred from the Next Flex tariff to Next Drive.
    When I switched from British Gas, the Eon website stated that we would be on the Flex tariff for around a week whilst our Next Drive account was set-up but when nothing happened I was told it was actually two weeks. After two weeks I was told about another week and now it's been over 4 weeks and still no sign of being moved over.
    I've contacted Eon numerous times and have raised an official complaint but I get nothing from them but excuses.
    Our smart meter has been giving out 30 minute data since we were with British Gas and I can see this data on third party apps such as Bright so there's no excuse for the delay.
    British Gas offered me £150 to stay with them but I stuplidly refused. I could have taken the money and would have been on their similar EV tarif immediately.
    EON Next did finally promise to back date the charges for electricity I have used during the cheaper overnight period but this won't cover all the times I have charged my car during the day before they told me this!

    Looking through this forum and on the web it's obvious that I am not the only one in this situation. It seems to me that Eon Next have released a product that is not ready for market. They should not be signing up new customers until they have this fixed and have cleared their backlog of customers who are waiting!