EV charging tariff are beginning to move. At the end of June EDF launched what it claimed was the cheapest EV tariff, meanwhile a new fixed EV tariff from Good Energy comes with Zapmap Premium included.

EDF’s EVolve Sep25 electricity tariff, priced at £1,067, gives customers five hours of off-peak electricity overnight for both their home and car whilst Good energy has just launched a plan with a five hour overnight rate of 7.4p per KWh.

The Good Energy Smart EV Fixed Tariff (July 25) will be available from 1 July, accessible in a five-hour window between 12am and 5am.

The two schemes demonstrate that there is now a competition to appeal to EV drivers within the UK’s energy suppliers, and an increasing focus on energy smoothing as the suppliers see EV electricity demand ramp up.

Nigel Pocklington, chief executive officer of Good Energy and chair of Zapmap said: “This new tariff, together with the excellent additional features from Zapmap, is designed to make it as cost effective and straightforward as possible to drive an electric vehicle.”

Rich Hughes, director of retail at EDF noted: “By charging up with our new tariff, drivers can reduce their CO2 emissions from their vehicle to zero, as well as saving £200 a year on their bills, whatever the make or model of their EV.”

In both cases it is EV, rather than home battery users, that are the clear intended customers, and as renewables take a larger part of the generation and EV market share grows, unless storage is radically evolved, the logic of offering better off-peak charging will continue to drive suppliers to offer more schemes.

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