EV Infrastructure Grant

The Electric Vehicle (EV) Infrastructure Grant is a government grant to help businesses with the cost of installing infrastructure for EV chargepoints for their own vehicles and for staff. The grant can be used towards the infrastructure needed for chargepoints, as well as for installing the chargepoints themselves.

This grant can be used alongside the Workplace Charging Scheme Grant provided they are not used for the same chargepoints i.e. the installer cannot claim both grants (on your behalf) for only one chargepoint.

Eligibility

This grant is for small and medium-sized businesses with 249 employees or less.

Key grant conditions

• The chargepoints installed must be exclusively for staff or fleet use. They cannot be for visitor or guest use.
• The grant supports the provision of chargepoints and future chargepoint locations where chargepoints may be installed at a later date. A minimum of 5 parking spaces must be provisioned with charging infrastructure, at least one of which must have a working chargepoint.
• The parking area where the chargepoint(s) and infrastructure are installed must be private off-street parking.
• The land on which the infrastructure is installed must be owned by the business or it must have the sole legal right to it.
• The charging infrastructure must comprise at least the following:
  • a new electrical connection at a metered electrical supply point, such as a consumer unit or feeder pillar
  • a dedicated, safe, unobstructed route for electrical cabling from the electrical supply point to the installed chargepoints and any future connection locations
  • any future connection locations
  • provisions to facilitate the safe installation of an electric vehicle chargepoint
  • any chargepoints that are installed
• Future chargepoint locations must have cabling from a metered power supply and enable a chargepoint to be installed at a future date, with minimal infrastructure work, at that location and operate.

Size of grants available

Each grant application can be for up to a maximum of £15,000.

A business can receive up to 5 grants in total. Each grant must be for a different site that the business owns, leases or rents.

How the grant works

The grant involves the following steps:

1. You must register with DVLA using the EV infrastructure grant for staff and fleets registration form.
2. You agree work to be undertaken at a specific site with an OZEV approved installer.
3. Once work is complete, your approved installer will apply for the grant on your behalf. They will need to tell OZEV what was installed and send evidence to verify this. This will include a copy of your invoice, photos of the chargepoints installed and a diagram of the car park indicating the work completed.
4. Your installer will invoice you with a final invoice. This should show the total cost of the installation (including any VAT charged) and the OZEV grant that is offset against that total.
5. DVLA will process the application and inform your installer of the result.
6. If the grant is awarded, OZEV will pay your installer the grant (which they will have already discounted from your bill).

For further details on this grant please see the GOV.UK website.