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Charging at home

The most convenient and cost-effective way to charge your electric car is at home. You can get one if you have off-street parking, like a driveway or garage. 

Get a home chargepoint

You’ll need to have off-street parking next to your home, like a driveway or garage. You’ll also need permission if you do not own your home. Or it’s a freehold flat or a leasehold.

You can make sure your chargepoint is installed somewhere that gives you enough space to move around and plug in. Your chargepoint installer will guide you and answer your questions.

Woman charging electric car at home

Cannot get a chargepoint?

How much an installation costs

If this is your first fully electric car on the Motability Scheme, we’ll arrange and cover the cost of a home chargepoint and a standard installation.

You’ll need to pay if you’ve had a fully electric car on the Scheme before, or you need a non-standard installation.

On average, 90% of customers do not need to pay anything extra during their installation

What is a non-standard installation?

It’s a home chargepoint installation where more work is needed. You might need a non-standard installation if:

  • Your parking space is not directly next to your home

  • Your charging unit needs to be mounted on something other than your home, like a post. Your home chargepoint can only be installed on a permanent structure

  • The cable route from your meter or unit is longer than 15 metres

  • The chargepoint provider needs to drill through more than one wall for the cable route

  • Your electrical equipment needs to be upgraded

You'll have to pay extra if you need one of these.

How a home installation works

After we’ve approved your car application, we’ll allocate you to one of our chargepoint providers. They’ll contact you and arrange to send someone out to install a chargepoint.

Generally, the installation can take up to two hours. If it’s more complicated, it could take up to five hours.

Charging costs

Your tariff will affect how much you pay. We’ve given you a rough idea of what you can expect, depending on your tariff, and how it compares to petrol and diesel.

Choose a tariff:

Based on electricity price of £0.34 p/kWh:
Based on electricity price of £0.10 p/kWh:

The right tariff can help keep your costs low

Using my home chargepoint is much easier. I think it’s cheaper and I can switch it on when I wish to.”

Kevin, electric car customer

Charging on the go

We understand there will be times when you’ll need to charge away from home, like when you’re on a long distance trip.

That’s not a problem, as you can still use the public charging network.

As part of your worry-free package, we’ll also give you our Motability Go Charge card. This lets you charge simply, at over 50,000 chargepoints. You’ll never pay more than the chargepoint operator’s ‘pay as you go’ tariff.

Find chargepoints near you

See if an electric car is right for you: check if there are chargepoints near you and on your usual routes.

Summary of things to think about

  • You’ll need off-street parking, and permission to fit a chargepoint if you do not own your home

  • You’ll need to pay extra if you need a non-standard installation

  • Charging costs will vary, depending on the tariff you choose

Can you get a home chargepoint?

I can get one installed

Take five minutes to answer some questions and we’ll tell you whether we think an electric car could suit you. Or browse our electric cars.


I cannot get one installed

Even though you cannot get a home chargepoint, we still have other ways we can support you:

What is bp pulse?

We’ll give you access to the bp pulse network of public chargepoints.

Learn about bp pulse

Charging on the go

Learn about public charging

Explore all of our electric car pages

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