Omoda E5 and Jaecoo E5 buyers get a free Octopus charger or £1,000 of charging credit

Buyers of a new Omoda E5 or Jaecoo E5 can now choose between a free Octopus Energy home charger with standard installation, worth up to £1,029, and £1,000 of credit for public charging through the Octopus Electroverse app, Motoring Research and Electric Cars Report reported on 2 November 2026. For a UK driver weighing up Chery Group’s two cheapest electric SUVs, it is a useful extra, but the deadline is less clear than the headlines suggest.

Omoda & Jaecoo UK’s own terms give a shorter window than the press reports, and dealer pages give a third date. Below we set out the terms, what the £1,000 credit buys in miles, how that compares with charging at home, and how the Jaecoo E5 shapes up on price against its closest rivals.

What are Omoda and Jaecoo offering?

The offer covers the two electric E5 models and is run by Octopus Energy. When you order, you tell the retailer which of two benefits you want:

• A home charger: an Octopus Charge untethered smart charger, including standard installation. The terms cover the charger and fitting up to £1,029. If your home needs non-standard work, or you pick a dearer Octopus charger, you pay the difference, and you can opt out before installation if you do not agree to the extra cost.
• Public charging credit: £1,000 of Octopus Electroverse credit, sent as a one-time voucher code by email. Electric Cars Report says the code arrives within 14 days and adds the full £1,000 to your Electroverse account once entered in the app.

The retailer sends a referral to Octopus, and the terms on Omoda & Jaecoo UK’s offer page say Octopus will email redemption instructions within seven working days of receiving it. There is no cash alternative.

“Choosing an electric car is only one part of moving to EV ownership; how you charge it is just as important,” said Victor Zhang, managing director of Omoda & Jaecoo UK, in comments reported by Motoring Research. Alex Schoch, director of electrification at Octopus Energy, said the partnership would help drivers get simpler and more affordable charging, at home or on the Electroverse network, according to Electric Cars Report’s summary of his comments.

When does the offer end?

This is the part to check before you sign. The sources do not agree:

Source	What it says
Omoda & Jaecoo UK terms	Dealer must submit the referral between 9 October 2026 and 30 January 2027
Gates Omoda & Jaecoo (dealer page)	Order between 9 October 2026 and 6 January 2027
Motoring Research	Orders must be placed by 31 March 2027
Electric Cars Report	Orders between 9 October 2026 and 31 March 2027

The brand’s own terms are the ones that bind, so we would treat 30 January 2027 as the working deadline for the referral, and earlier if your dealer quotes 6 January. The terms also say the offer is subject to availability and can be changed or withdrawn at any time. We could not find a press release from Omoda & Jaecoo UK or Octopus that settles the date, so ask your retailer to confirm in writing which benefit has been recorded and when the referral was sent.

Who can claim it?

The press reports describe it as an offer for private buyers. The full terms are a little wider and more specific:

• Eligible: retail customers, sole traders and small business owners who have completed an order for a qualifying car, aged 18 or over and living in the UK.
• Excluded: fleet, employee and Motability customers, and addresses in Northern Ireland, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man.
• Charger rule: you must not already have an EV charger at home, and your property must be suitable for an Octopus Charge installation under Octopus’s terms.
• Business addresses: chargers cannot be fitted at business-registered addresses, so orders tied to one get the £1,000 credit instead.
• Cancellations: if you cancel the car order, the offer is withdrawn, and if the charger has been fitted or the credit applied you are liable for the full cost.

The name and address on the referral must match the order form and the registration document.

Which cars qualify and what do they cost?

The offer is reported for the two electric models, the Jaecoo E5 and the Omoda E5, so check with the dealer before assuming it applies to a petrol or hybrid version. Official figures from Jaecoo UK and Omoda UK:

Model	Price (OTR)	Battery	WLTP range	Official consumption
Jaecoo E5 Pure	£27,505	60.9kWh	248 miles	16.6kWh/100km
Jaecoo E5 Luxury	£30,505	60.9kWh	248 miles	16.6kWh/100km
Omoda E5 Knight	£33,065	61kWh	267 miles	16kWh/100km
Omoda E5 Noble	£34,565	61kWh	267 miles	16kWh/100km

Jaecoo quotes 30 to 80% DC charging in 27 minutes for the E5, and Omoda quotes 28 minutes. Dealers are also advertising their own discounts on both cars, so the price you pay may be lower than list. We have not covered whether either car qualifies for the government Electric Car Grant here, because we could not confirm it on GOV.UK’s eligible model list.

The Jaecoo name will be familiar: the Jaecoo 7 topped the UK sales chart in September, as we covered in our report on Chinese brands taking 23.3% of UK sales. The E5 is the brand’s electric entry point.

What does £1,000 of public charging credit actually buy?

It depends on where you spend it. Electroverse lets you pay on many networks at each network’s own price, so there is no single rate. As a guide, we used Zapmap’s September 2026 pay-as-you-go averages, which are 79p per kWh on rapid and ultra-rapid chargers and 54p on slow and fast chargers.

• At 79p: £1,000 ÷ 79p = about 1,266kWh.
• At 54p: £1,000 ÷ 54p = about 1,852kWh.

To turn that into miles, we converted each car’s official WLTP consumption into miles per kWh. The Jaecoo E5’s 16.6kWh per 100km works out at about 3.74 miles per kWh, and the Omoda E5’s 16kWh per 100km at about 3.88 miles per kWh.

	Jaecoo E5 (3.74 mi/kWh)	Omoda E5 (3.88 mi/kWh)
£1,000 at 79p (1,266kWh)	about 4,740 miles	about 4,920 miles
£1,000 at 54p (1,852kWh)	about 6,930 miles	about 7,190 miles
Cost per mile at 79p	about 21.1p	about 20.3p
Cost per mile at 54p	about 14.4p	about 13.9p

These are our estimates from official test figures. Real-world efficiency is usually worse in cold weather and at motorway speeds, so expect fewer miles in practice. Still, for a driver doing 7,000 miles a year mostly on public chargers, the credit could cover something like eight to twelve months of charging.

The terms we read do not say whether the Electroverse credit expires, so check that with Octopus before you rely on it. Our comparison of Octopus Electroverse and Bonnet explains how the app works.

How does that compare with charging at home?

Very differently. Octopus’s variable Intelligent Octopus Go tariff is 6.5p per kWh overnight, according to its product data, and it was still on sale today. We explain that rate in our report on Intelligent Octopus Go dropping to 6.5p.

The same energy the credit buys would cost:

• 1,266kWh at 6.5p: about £82.
• 1,852kWh at 6.5p: about £120.

That is before standing charges, and assumes all your charging falls in the cheap window. Per mile, 6.5p works out at about 1.7p in either E5, against 14p to 21p on public chargers at Zapmap’s averages.

So the two options are not really equal, even though both are pitched at about £1,000. The credit is a one-off sum that runs out. The charger keeps paying back every night for as long as you live there, because it lets you charge at a fraction of public prices. Smart tariffs need a compatible charger or car, so check Octopus’s eligibility tool before you switch. Our guide to smart chargers for Octopus tariffs covers what to look for, and Best Chargers keeps an up-to-date EV tariff comparison hub if you want to compare suppliers.

Should you take the charger or the credit?

A simple way to decide:

• You have a driveway and no charger: take the wallbox. As a rough guide, 7,000 miles a year in a Jaecoo E5 needs about 1,870kWh, which is about £122 at 6.5p against about £1,010 at Zapmap’s 54p average. On those inputs, the saving passes £1,000 within the second year.
• You have a driveway and already have a charger: you cannot take the wallbox under the terms, so the credit is your option.
• You park on the street or in a shared car park: take the credit. It covers a meaningful chunk of public charging, and on slower chargers it goes further.
• You rent or may move soon: the credit may suit you better, and you will need the landlord’s permission for a wallbox anyway.

If you choose the charger, have the installer check your supply and cable route early, since any non-standard work above the £1,029 cap is yours to pay.

How does the Jaecoo E5 compare with rivals on price?

The E5 is pitched as an affordable family SUV, so we compared list prices against WLTP range to get a price per mile of range. A lower figure means more official range for your money.

Model	Price	WLTP range	Price per mile of range
Jaecoo E5 Pure	£27,505	248 miles	about £111
Leapmotor B10	£29,995 (after £1,500 Leap-Grant)	270 miles	about £111
Kia EV3 Air SR	£31,555 (with Electric Car Grant)	270 miles	about £117
Omoda E5 Knight	£33,065	267 miles	about £124
MGS5 EV SE Standard Range	£28,495	211 miles	about £135

Prices come from Kia UK, Motoring Research for the B10 (its launch price; some listings now show a higher list price, so check with a dealer) and Parkers for the MGS5. The EV3 is £33,055 before the grant, about £122 per mile of range. The Jaecoo is the cheapest car in the group to buy and level with the B10 on value per mile, though the B10 has more range and faster charging. Read our Leapmotor B10 sales report and our Kia EV3 review for more on those two.

Price per mile of range is a blunt measure. It ignores space, equipment, charging speed and dealer discounts, all of which can shift the picture.

What else is Chery doing on charging?

The offer fits a wider push by Chery Group on charging. The company has said it plans fast charging and energy storage stations in the UK from 2027, though no sites have been named, as we reported in our Chery charging stations story.

Our view

This is a genuine benefit worth about £1,000 either way, and for E5 buyers with a driveway the free charger is the stronger choice, because it opens the door to overnight rates of a few pence per kWh. The credit is a fair alternative for drivers who rely on public chargers. The thing to watch is the deadline: the brand’s own terms point to 30 January 2027 for the dealer referral, not the end of March, so get the referral confirmed in writing when you order.