Which EV Charger Grants Can Your Business Claim in 2026?

What UK businesses can claim in 2026

Last checked 1 September 2026, against the Office for Zero Emission Vehicles guidance on gov.uk. We re-check this page whenever a scheme changes and date it every time, because grant pages go stale faster than almost anything else on the internet and an out of date figure can wreck a budget.

Five schemes are open. All are funded to 31 March 2027.

• Workplace Charging Scheme — £500 per socket, on up to 40 sockets per applicant. Businesses, charities and public authorities.
• Workplace Charging Scheme, state funded schools — £2,000 per socket, on up to 40 sockets.
• Chargepoint grant for landlords — £500 per socket, on up to 200 sockets a year.
• Chargepoint grant for renters and flat owners — £500 per socket.
• On street parking — £500 per socket.

For most businesses the first two are the only ones that matter. If you run a workplace car park, a depot or a fleet, the Workplace Charging Scheme is almost certainly your route, and a state funded school is on the higher rate.

The Workplace Charging Scheme, in detail

This is the scheme behind most commercial installations in the UK, and the one we process most often.

What it pays. £500 per socket, on up to 40 sockets per applicant, so a full forty socket scheme is worth £20,000. State funded schools claim £2,000 per socket against the same 40 socket cap, worth up to £80,000.

Who qualifies. Businesses, charities and public authorities with off street parking for staff or fleet vehicles, and a stated need for EV charging.

The cap is per applicant, not per site. This catches out multi site organisations more than anything else on this page. Forty sockets is the total across your whole estate, not forty at each location, so the order you install in matters and it is worth planning the sequence before the first site goes in.

It has to be claimed through an OZEV authorised installer. You cannot pay for the work and reclaim it yourself afterwards, and only installations carried out after the installer’s authorisation date are eligible. Ask any installer for their OZEV installer number and check it against the government’s own list before you commit to anything.

Landlord, renter and on street schemes

Chargepoint grant for landlords. £500 per socket on up to 200 sockets a year, for landlords of residential property. Worth knowing about if you own or manage residential blocks, because the annual allowance is far larger than the workplace cap and most landlords never claim it.

Chargepoint grant for renters and flat owners. £500 per socket, for people who rent their home or own a flat, where there is dedicated off street parking.

On street parking. £500 per socket for households without off street parking, delivered through local authorities.

Being straight with you: we install at workplaces, depots, fleets, schools and public sector sites. We do not install at private homes. The two household schemes are listed here because a grant tracker that leaves schemes out is not a tracker. If one of them is what you need, an OZEV authorised domestic installer will be able to help, and you can find one on the government’s own list of approved installers.

How to claim, and where it goes wrong

The money is the simple part. The paperwork is where projects lose time, and the failures are consistent enough to list.

• Applying in the wrong order. The voucher has to exist before the work is done. Installing first and applying afterwards is the most common way to lose the grant altogether.
• Applying for the wrong scheme. Workplace, landlord and school schemes carry different rates, caps and evidence requirements. A school claiming the standard business rate leaves £1,500 a socket on the table.
• Using an installer who is not OZEV authorised. The claim is invalid, and you tend to find out at claim stage rather than at quote stage.
• Forgetting the cap is per applicant. A multi site rollout planned as forty sockets per site gets funded for forty in total.
• Letting the voucher expire. Vouchers are time limited, and a DNO supply upgrade can outrun one if the application is not timed around it.

We validate eligibility and process the claim as part of the job, and discount the grant from your quotation and your final invoice rather than leaving you to chase it. That is not generosity, it is the only reliable way to be sure it is done in the right order.

The Depot Charging Scheme, and why it is worth planning for now

If you run a depot, this is the largest scheme on this page by a wide margin, and the one fewest businesses have heard of. It is a £170 million programme running to 2030, worth up to £1 million per organisation at 70% of eligible costs.

It is open to private fleets, public sector bodies, local authorities and non profits across the UK that own or lease a depot with at least one battery electric van, HGV or coach, and that have been registered and operating for at least twelve months. One application per organisation.

What makes it different is what it pays for. Alongside the chargepoints themselves it covers civil engineering works and electrical and grid connection works. On a depot project those are usually the expensive part and the reason schemes stall. No other grant on this page touches them, and the Workplace Charging Scheme caps out at £20,000 by comparison.

It is not open at the moment. The first window ran from 25 March to 30 June 2026. A second window is expected to open on 28 October 2026 and run to 29 January 2027, with £38 million behind it.

Applying is not a form you fill in on the day. It needs feasibility work, grid capacity figures and costed quotes, and the first window was competitive. If a depot scheme is anywhere in your plans for 2027, the work starts before the window opens rather than after. We are happy to do the survey and the costings now so an application is ready to go.

On our own rule about dates: the £170 million, the £1 million cap and the 70% are confirmed in the government announcement of 25 March 2026. The October window dates come from a single government source and we have asked OZEV to confirm them, so treat that date as expected rather than fixed. We will update this section when they reply. There is no dedicated guidance page for this scheme on gov.uk, which is a large part of why so much of the published advice about it is out of date.

What closed in March 2026, and why it still matters

Three schemes closed to new applications on 31 March 2026:

• The EV Infrastructure Grant for staff and fleets, the one widely advertised as worth up to £75,000
• The Commercial Landlord Chargepoint Grant
• The Landlord Infrastructure Grant

Installer claims against the staff and fleets grant closed on 26 May 2026, with a final deadline of 13 July 2026 for supporting information. All of this is set out in the OZEV installer guidance on gov.uk, last updated 7 July 2026.

It matters because much of the internet has not caught up, and we measured how far behind it is.

On 1 September 2026 we took the seven questions a business would actually type into Google about EV charging grants, and checked every non-government organisation ranking for them. Twenty-nine organisations, of which twenty-seven could be assessed. Eight of them still presented a closed scheme as currently available, and three more carried other material errors, including one quoting the superseded £350 Workplace Charging Scheme rate rather than the current £500.

One of those pages carries its own last-updated date of 18 August 2026 — two weeks before we looked, and five months after the scheme closed. Another states the grant is open “until the end of March 2025”, a date that was wrong before the closure. And the out of date figures do not even agree with one another: £75,000, £30,000, £15,000 per site, £850 per bay, £350 per socket. A business comparing three suppliers can collect three different wrong numbers.

We are not naming them. Most will correct it, and the point is the scale rather than the culprits. We include ourselves in that criticism: this site carried the wrong figure until 31 August 2026. Finding it is what prompted the audit, and it is why every figure on this page now carries the date it was last checked.

So before you build a business case around a grant figure, check the date on whatever page you read it on. Ours is at the top of this one.