I didn't hear this in the speech but apparently it's from the Budget -
From spring 2027, the government will provide £100 million over two years to cut charging costs for motorists using lower-powered public 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. These make up around a third of the current charging network.
www.gov.uk/government/news/cutting-electric-vehicle-charging-costs
Also looking at 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
Last edited by: smokie on Thu 29 Oct 26 at 08:28
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>> From spring 2027, the government will provide £100 million over two years to cut charging
>> costs for motorists using lower-powered public 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. These make up around a third of the current charging network.
Entirely sensible to improve uptake of EVs for those without off street charging.
Also entirely likely to be a smoke and mirrors excercise as the government find ways to tax EVs to replace duty lost on ICE!
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These are the chargers we’re short of, unless one lives within the M25.
We have rapid chargers everywhere, but as someone that can’t charge at home in the N-W I’d have to either leave my car on a retail park with a maximum 3 hour stay or a hospital car park if I wanted the equivalent of a home charge.
Conversely, I’ve loads of rapid chargers nearby if I want to pay their prices.
Anything to encourage EV adoption is to be applauded, but let’s have more ‘destination’ chargers throughout the rest of the country.
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West Sussex, be it the council or, as I suspect, the local town councils, has done a reasonable job of installing kerbside chargers. Brighton and Worthing are pretty well served, Chichester has a sprinkling in areas they are needed and even Arundel has half a dozen by the Cathedral. They could do with more in the long stay car parks though. I imagine that some of the section 106 funding from all the new housing developments has helped fund them under the transport and infrastructure bit, which is fair enough. Pricewise they vary from 30 p/kwh (Chichester) to 55p (Brighton). But even the most expensive is only the equivalent of 15p a mile, which at current petrol prices is around 53mpg equivalent. To be fair, many fast chargers are now cost neutral or cheaper than many ICE vehicles as well. Clearly not a saving worth changing your car for, but if you were changing your car anyway it’s a different matter!
More money left to spend on gherkins ;)
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Away from home EV charging cost reduction - Terry
