If you bought an electric car before April 2025, your first Vehicle Excise Duty bill is either already here or on its way. After years of exemption, EVs registered from 1 April 2025 onwards now pay road tax like any other vehicle, and for many drivers, the numbers have come as an unpleasant surprise. Here’s … Read more
You’ve probably seen it mentioned in EV spec sheets: Plug and Charge. It sounds brilliant in theory. You arrive at a charger, plug in, and the car handles payment automatically. No fumbling with apps in the rain, no tapping cards, no wondering if the charger recognizes your RFID fob. Just plug in and walk away. … Read more
If you own an electric car registered before April 2025, you’ll start paying Vehicle Excise Duty (VED, or road tax) soon. But there’s widespread confusion about exactly when that first payment is due, and how much you’ll actually pay. The short version: you won’t pay anything on 1st April 2025. Instead, you’ll start paying from … Read more
Plug and Charge is one of those features that sounds almost too good to be true: you arrive at a compatible charger, plug in your car, and charging starts automatically. No app to open, no RFID card to tap, no payment screen to navigate in the rain. The car and charger simply recognise each other, … Read more
Bidirectional charging lets your car send power back to your home instead of just drawing it from the grid. After years of waiting, we’ve finally got affordable EVs that support it, chargers you can actually buy, and regulations that make installation straightforward. The question now isn’t whether it’s possible, but whether it makes financial sense … Read more
If you’re signing up for a salary sacrifice electric car in 2025 or 2026, there’s a very good chance your contract will straddle April 2028. That’s when the current ultra-low 2% Benefit-in-Kind (BIK) rate for pure electric cars is guaranteed only until, with the rate widely expected to rise to 3% or 4% from the … Read more
From April 2026, electric cars will pay Vehicle Excise Duty (VED, often called road tax) for the first time. If you’ve been putting off understanding exactly what this means for your wallet, here’s the full breakdown with real numbers and real cars. The Basic Rate: What Most EV Drivers Will Pay From the second year … Read more
Bidirectional charging, the ability for your EV to send power back to your home or the grid, has been ‘just around the corner’ for years. In 2026, it’s finally here in the UK, but only if you buy the right combination of car and charger. Get it wrong and you’ve got expensive equipment that can’t … Read more
If you registered your electric car before 1 April 2025, you’re still exempt from Vehicle Excise Duty (VED, or road tax). If you registered on or after that date, you’re now paying road tax for the first time, and if your car cost more than £40,000 when new, you’ll be paying quite a lot of … Read more
You’ve probably seen the advice: pre-condition your EV battery before rapid charging. It sounds sensible enough. Your car warms up the battery to its optimal temperature, typically between 25°C and 35°C, so it can accept charge faster when you plug in. But here’s the thing: pre-conditioning uses energy too. So does warming up your battery … Read more