Grants up to £500. Here's whether you qualify.
The OZEV EV chargepoint grant is still alive and well — despite what you may have heard. As of 1 April 2026 it's worth up to £500 per socket, and a brand-new scheme launched for homeowners who park on the street. The catch: regular homeowners with driveways are still excluded, as they have been since 2022. Here's the full picture in plain English.
Renters
You rent your home and have private off-street parking. Need written consent from your landlord.
Flat owners
You own a leasehold flat (or share of freehold) with private parking. Need freeholder or management company consent.
Landlords
You let residential property to tenants. Up to 200 grants per year, £500 per socket.
Homeowner with driveway
You own your home and have off-street parking. Removed from the scheme in 2022 and not coming back.
Homeowner, on-street only
You own your home but have no driveway — you'd park on the street. New scheme launched April 2026.
The scheme just got more generous.
The cap on the grant rose from £350 to £500 per socket on 1 April 2026 for renters, flat owners, and landlords. Funding is confirmed until 31 March 2027.
For the first time, homeowners with no driveway can claim. If you own a house and would normally park on the street, you're now eligible for up to £500 toward installing a kerbside or shared-driveway charger.
Which one applies to you.
Renters & flat owners grant.
The most common eligible category. If you rent your home or own a leasehold flat, you can claim up to £500 toward the cost of buying and installing a home charger — capped at 75% of the total cost.
- Off-street parking required. You must have a private, clearly-defined parking space at your address. A communal car park is fine; on-street parking isn't (separate scheme for that).
- Written consent from your landlord or freeholder. A simple letter naming you and the property is usually enough. We can supply a template.
- One grant per property. Previous claims under the older EVHS scheme don't disqualify you from this one.
- Must own or have ordered an EV. The vehicle needs to be on the OZEV-approved list (almost every EV sold in the UK is).
Residential landlord grant.
If you let residential property to tenants, this is genuinely generous. £500 per socket, up to 200 grants per financial year, total funding capped at £75,000 per landlord.
Tenants on Rightmove now actively filter for "EV charging" — so fitting chargers across a portfolio increasingly pays for itself in higher rents and faster lets, even before the grant.
- You don't need to own the EV yourself. The grant is for the property, not the tenant's car.
- Dual-socket chargers count as 2. A single chargepoint with two sockets = £1,000 grant per unit installed.
- The infrastructure grant closed March 2026. Funding for groundwork, electrical upgrades, and supporting infrastructure has been cut — only the charger itself is grant-eligible now.
- Bulk discount on installation. We can offer reduced per-unit pricing for landlords commissioning 5+ chargers. More on our landlord page →
On-street parking grant.
A brand-new scheme that finally addresses what was an obvious gap: people who own their home but have no driveway. If you'd normally park on the street outside your house, you can now claim up to £500 toward a charger.
- Several solutions are eligible. Kerbside chargers, cable channels that run a cable safely across the pavement, and shared-driveway arrangements with neighbours all qualify.
- You'll need to coordinate with your council. Cable channels and kerbside posts often need local authority sign-off. We help with this.
- Honest caveat: the practical install options depend heavily on your specific street and council. This is one to discuss in a survey rather than budget for with confidence in advance.
Homeowners with driveways — the honest bit.
If you own your home and have a driveway or off-street parking, you don't qualify for any of the current OZEV grants. You were removed from the scheme in April 2022 and you remain excluded in 2026. We're being straight about this because some installers still imply otherwise.
The reasoning from government: standard homeowners are now the easiest group to install chargers for, the market is mature, and grant money goes further focused on harder-to-reach groups. Whether or not you agree with that, it's the current rule.
The good news: install costs without the grant are still very reasonable. Our standard install is £475 inc. VAT, and the chargers themselves start at £425. Our full pricing here →
Six steps. Mostly painless.
From April 2026, the application moved to gov.uk's "Find a Grant" platform. Customers now apply themselves rather than the installer doing it for them — but the change isn't as scary as it sounds. Here's how it actually goes.
We survey your property
Free in-person visit, about an hour. We check your fuseboard, the parking space, the cable route, and confirm you're eligible. You get a written quote on the day with the grant already deducted from the total.
You register on Find a Grant
A 5-minute job. You create an account on gov.uk's Find a Grant platform and start your application using our OZEV installer number, which we give you at the survey.
You upload your evidence
A utility bill in your name, vehicle V5C or lease agreement, our quote, and (if you rent or own a flat) the written consent letter. We supply templates for the bits you need.
OZEV approves
Typically a couple of weeks. You'll get a unique transaction code that confirms the grant. We don't book the install until this is through — no risk of paying full price by accident.
We install
Half a day on site for a standard install. The same electrician who did the survey does the install — no handovers, no surprises.
You pay the discounted total
Your invoice shows the grant already deducted. You pay what's left. We handle the reconciliation with OZEV in the background — no chasing rebate cheques, no waiting months for money to come back.
The fine print, plainly.
Every year a chunk of OZEV applications get rejected for the same handful of reasons. Most of them are easy to avoid if you know in advance. Here are the ones that catch people out.
Take the 90-second quiz, or book a free survey.
The quiz gives you an instant Yes/No/Maybe with the next step. The survey is a free in-person visit with a written quote and grant deduction already included. Both work — pick whichever feels right.