EV Infrastructure Grant for Staff and Fleets

The EV Infrastructure Grant for Staff and Fleets closed to new applications on 31 March 2026. If you’re looking for grants under this closed scheme, you now have two different routes.

Staff and Fleets was OZEV’s SME-only chargepoint infrastructure grant. The terms were:

• 75% of cost, up to £15,000 per installation.
• Within that, £350 per socket plus £500 per parking space enabled with supporting infrastructure (i.e. a space made EV-ready even if the active socket came later).
• Up to 5 grants across 5 different sites per applicant, one per building.
• For staff or fleet use only, not public.
• At least 5 off-street private parking spaces per site, with at least one active socket and the rest active or passive.

The most useful feature in practice was the passive-infrastructure subsidy. The £500-per-space element paid for cabling and ducting on parking bays where the active socket might be installed later. That made it the cheapest way for SMEs to design in future capacity.

New customer applications are not being accepted. The standard closed-scheme transition rules apply:

• 26 May 2026: final installer claim submission deadline.
• 6 July 2026: final resubmission deadline if OZEV requests further evidence on a claim.

There is no single direct replacement. Instead, two schemes targeting distinct use-cases are in place.

Staff parking and light-fleet workplaces: Workplace Charging Scheme. £500 per socket, up to 40 sockets across all your sites. Higher rate per socket than Staff and Fleets, but no passive-infrastructure subsidy.

Fleet depot operations: Depot Charging Scheme. Up to £1m per organisation, 70% of cost in Window 1. For SMEs running van or coach depots, DCS is significantly larger than Staff and Fleets ever was - but it requires already-confirmed grid capacity, which Staff and Fleets did not.