Today the Government has announced it will cut prices at public near-home electric vehicle (EV) chargers across Britain, saving drivers who rely on them around £150 a year.
From spring 2027, the government will provide £100 million over two years to cut charging costs for motorists using charge points near their homes. It will cover chargers typically found on residential streets, where drivers can leave their vehicles to charge for several hours or overnight.
Currently there are more than 124,000 EV chargers in the UK, which are sited on 97,976 devices across 48,298 charging locations. On-street, residential chargers typically deliver power between 3-8kW, and there are currently over 61,000 of these Standard rated chargers in the UK.
The EV transition is accelerating – as of September 2026, there are over 2,280,000 fully electric cars on UK roads, representing a 26.2% share of new car registrations year-to-date, and over 190,000 drivers have saved thousands making the switch in the last year alone thanks to government funding. While more drivers than ever are going electric, the government knows that higher public charging costs risk slamming the brakes on that progress.
The government has also shared that it will also be taking forward the recommendation from the review to launch a “tariff porting” taskforce led by industry experts to explore allowing drivers to use their cheaper domestic energy tariff at certain public chargers. The Department for Transport will set out more details in due course.
