EV grants: What’s available and who can benefit from them?
EV grants: What’s available and who can benefit from them?
Electric cars do come with a little bit of extra cost. From installing charging points to their relatively increased price over a ‘regular’ petrol or diesel car, they can sometimes carry an extra premium.
However, there are plenty of grants in place to help out EV buyers. Though the number of these has diminished in recent years as electric car ownership has increased, there are still a series of grants designed to help out certain EV drivers. Let’s check them out.
EV chargepoint grant
The EV chargepoint grant used to be available to private electric vehicle owners, but it has recently been narrowed to include a smaller sample of drivers. Today, it’s open to help landlords with the cost of installing a charging point, as well as for people who either own or rent a flat. It can help to reduce the cost of installing a charger by either £350 or 75 per cent off the cost to buy and install a socket.
Small to medium-sized businesses can also get grants to install electric charging points at their car parks and it covers 75 per cent of the cost of installation. You can get up to £350 per socket installed or £500 per parking space ‘enabled with supporting infrastructure’. There’s a limit of £15,000 per grant, however.
Workplace Charging Scheme
The Workplace Charging Scheme is a voucher-based scheme that helps with the costs of purchasing and installing a chargepoint for eligible businesses, charities and public sector organisations.
It’ll cover up to 75 per cent of the cost of installing and purchasing a chargepoint, bringing up to £350 per socket, with up to 40 sockets across all sites available per applicant. For example, if you had 40 sites, then you could get a grant-funded charge point per site.
Plug-in car grant
The plug-in car grant might not apply to owners of private vehicles, but it’s still available to many EV drivers. The type of eligible vehicles currently includes wheelchair-accessible cars, motorcycles and mopeds, small and large vans, and small and large trucks. Taxis are also eligible for the grant.
The vehicles in question must feature on a Government-approved list, with wheelchair-accessible vehicles, for example, including models like the Citroen e-Berlingo and Peugeot e-Rifter.
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