The Electric Car Scheme partners with OVO to bring cheaper charging, lower cost EVs

• The Electric Car Scheme is providing 6,000 miles of free charging with specialist OVO Charge Anytime plus cheaper home charging
• OVO’s Charge Anytime add-on provides customers with EV charging at just 7p per kWh – around 2p per mile
• Thom Groot (above): “A year’s worth of free charging”

SALARY sacrifice specialist The Electric Car Scheme is partnering with OVO with an offer to make EV driving cheaper and making the switch to electric cars more appealing.

The agreement offers both new and existing customers of The Electric Car Scheme 6,000 miles worth of free charging, followed by access to OVO’s Charge Anytime specialist EV tariff add-on.

The EV tariff add-on enables users with a smart meter and home EV charger to charge their EV at a special rate of 7p/kWh, which equates to around 2p per mile.

According to analysis from The Electric Car Scheme, the cost of running a petrol equivalent exceeded the yearly charging costs for an average EV driver in the UK on around 15 July this year. This is based on the driver paying the standard variable rate for their electricity.

But with EV charging via Charge Anytime at the rate of 7p/kWh their charging costs would become cheaper even sooner – a date closer to mid-February due to the significantly cheaper electricity costs.

While affordability remains the biggest barrier for people to switch to an EV (68% of respondents in The Electric Car Scheme’s Affording Sustainability report highlighting it as a concern), the cost of running an EV also remains a barrier (34% see it as a barrier).