OLEV Electric Vehicle Homecharge Scheme (EVHS)

This scheme is no longer available to home owners. However there are grants available for flat owner-occupiers and people living in rented properties.

As part of the EVHS we helped customers to apply for funding from the OLEV grant scheme for homes and businesses for the past few years. The grant funding is a home charge scheme provided a 75% contribution towards the cost of a single charge point and installation up to a maximum of £350 (including VAT) per household/eligible vehicle. A person was able to apply for 2 charge points at the same property if they had 2 qualifying vehicles. As a EVHS installer we checked that our clients qualified for the grant and then applied on their behalf. We billed for the price of the installation, minus the grant amount applied for.

Installations completed using that scheme had to be completed by the 31 March 2022 and a claim submitted to DVLA by 30 April 2022.

You would have been eligible for the OLEV EVHS grant if:

  • you  bought an electric vehicle (EV) or plug-in hybrid vehicle (PHEV) after 1st October 2016
  • or you have leased one for at least six months

You were also required to:

  • provide proof of ownership of the vehicle or lease
  • Evidence of your purchase /order if in the process of buying or leasing
  • provide off-street parking
  • use an OLEV approved home charging point
  • An OLEV approved charging point installer must install your charger
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To align with the government’s net zero ambitions, the Office for Low Emission Vehicles (OLEV) has been renamed the Office for Zero Emission Vehicles (OZEV)

From 1st April 2022 the grant will support:

Flat Owners (incl. leasehold flats) and People living in rental accommodation

The grant will support people living in flats (incl. leasehold flats) and rental accommodation (as we currently do under the EVHS). Up to £350 is available towards the cost of installing a chargepoint. Only one application will be permitted per person. The applicant must have a qualifying electric vehicle and their property must have dedicated off-street parking.

Landlords and social housing providers can apply for an EVHS grant

Up to £30,000 will be available per building towards the cost of installing chargepoints, with a limit of 30 applications per year per applicant.
The amount of grant available per application will depend on how many parking bays are being provisioned with either a chargepoint socket (up to £850 available per bay) or supporting infrastructure for a chargepoint to be installed at a later date (up to £500 available per bay).

  • The applicant must be a registered business or a public authority
  • If they are a private entity, they may be registered with Companies House, have a VAT registration, or be a private registered provider of social housing.
  • The property must have associated private parking.
  • There is no limit as to how many chargepoint sockets can be installed in each property (within the overall limit of £30,000 per property).
  • A minimum of five bays must be provisioned, at least one of which must have a working chargepoint.

Please note that some PHEVs are not eligible for OLEV EVHS grant funding,  click here to check your vehicle is eligible

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