Two grant schemes are currently available for installing charge points for electric vehicles at a residential or commercial property in the United Kingdom:
1. An Electric Vehicle (EV) Charge Point grant, and
2. An Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Grant.
Eligible applicants can use an Charge Point grant and Infrastructure grant on the same property.
(1) The Electric Vehicle (EV) Charge Point Grant scheme is intended for commercial landlords that rent, lease or manage commercial properties.
Eligible organisations include:
o Charities managing or owning residential property.
o Companies owning a building’s common areas, including shareholders who are the property’s lease-holders property factor in Scotland.
o Companies owning the freehold of a property.
o Landlords with property that they let.
o Private registered providers of social housing (PRP).
o Public authorities, such as government departments and their agencies, the Armed Forces, Local Government, the NHS and Emergency Services.
o Residents’ Management Companies (RMCs), and
o Right to Manage (RTM) companies.
An EV Charge Point grant gives money off of the cost of installing an Electric Vehicle Charge Point socket.
Applicants can receive either £350 or 75% off the cost to buy and install a socket, whichever amount is lower.
Each financial year, applicants can get up to:
o 200 grants for residential properties, and
o 100 grants for commercial properties
Grants can be used across several properties and installations or for just one property.
(2) Eligible organisations may also apply for an Electric Vehicle Infrastructure grant, which provides money off the cost of wider building and installation work needed to install multiple charge point sockets.
The work can be for sockets to install now and in the future. For example, an EV Infrastructure grant can cover things such as wiring and posts.
Up to £30,000 or 75% off the cost of the work is available. The amount depends on how many parking spaces the work covers.
Applicants can get up to 30 infrastructure grants each financial year, providing each EV Infrastructure grant is used for a different property.
Further information, guidance and an online application form is available on the Department for Transport website.
Applications may be made at any time.
Contact details for the scheme are:
Office for Zero Emission Vehicles (OZEV)
Great Minster House
33 Horseferry Road
London
SW1P 4DR
Email: LandlordGrantEnq(at)dvla.gov.uk
