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Owning a Electric Vehicle is becoming more accessible as car manufactures are making more of their new cars Electric. Upgrading or owning a EV charger for the first time just pick a charger and book a installer!
A home charge point makes owning an electric car so much easier and cheaper. You can stop planning every trip around charge point locations and make sure your electric vehicle is fully charged before every journey.
To meet growing consumer demand, and offer affordable and accessible charging options, there’s a clear need for commercial property owners to get onboard and implement charging infrastructure.
Installing your own charging points has multiple benefits: it’ll improve your brand, attract more customers, clients, and employees to your company, help the environment, and cut your costs – potentially by tens of thousands of pounds.
Charging on the go
There are now thousands of public charging stations across the UK. Backed by Government initiatives and spurred on by public demand, more and more charging points are being added to the public network every day. . This will keep you informed on while out and about in your EV
EV Tariffs
What are electric vehicle energy tariffs?
As the name suggests, these are energy tariffs aimed at owners of electric vehicles (EVs) that use their home electricity to charge their car.
There are generally two types of EV tariffs:
- Two-rate tariffs, that offer cheaper electricity overnight. The most common, and typically the cheapest type of EV tariff, offers two different electricity rates depending on the time of day, with much lower rates at night. This means you can charge your car – or run your dishwasher, washing machine etc (there are often no stipulations on what you can use the cut-price electricity for) – very cheaply overnight.
Though prices are high right now, if you make full use of the cheap overnight rate, the best two-rate deal generally works out cheaper than price-capped standard variable tariffs – and there are no meaningfully cheaper regular deals that beat price-capped tariffs right now. See What EV tariffs are available? for our full analysis.
- Single-rate tariffs, where you pay the same rate throughout the day, but it’s often discounted if you have an EV. The other type of EV tariff works the same way as regular deals, where you pay a flat rate, but it’ll be a special price if you’ve an EV, or you’ll get extras such as bill credit.
Currently, there are no single-rate EV tariffs that are cheaper than price-capped standard tariffs on average – even when factoring in extra electricity usage to cover EV charging.
As the EV market grows, so does the demand from drivers for EV-specific tariffs. If you're getting an EV, find out how you can get an EV tariff with Uswitch guide
How to find your cheapest EV tariff.
Every provider has either a rate card or a quote process which you need to go through so you can get the most accurate cost. Something to keep in mind is that sometimes you can get a very cheap night, off-peak, rate but the daytime unit rate is higher.
The best way to identify a cheap tariff is to look at the duration of the cheap off-peak rate and how much of your usage you can fit into it. The daily standing charge is not much of a factor when looking at bills of an EV household, as these are only charged once per day.
It is far more important to focus on the unit rates which are charged for each kWh of electricity that you consume. A higher standing charge coupled with low unit rates is far more preferable to an EV driver than low standing charges and high unit rates.
What are the best EV tariff providers?
As the EV market grows so does the demand for EV tarffis. Compare and find the best electric provider for your electric car with Uswitch
