The UK government has presented a new plan to boost smart electric vehicle (EV) charging, which it claims could save drivers up to £1,000 a year.
The ‘Electric Vehicle Smart Charging Action Plan’ would involve boosting the network of units with smart charging capabilities, which would minimise the impact of EVs on the grid by reducing demand peaks.
The plan was drawn up by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) and Ofgem, with the goal of making smart charging "the norm at home and work by 2025", as well as the preferred method of long-duration public charging.
It stresses that smarter charging could save an average driver around £200 and a high-mileage motorist up to £1,000 a year by, for example, delaying a charge at peak periods until overnight when energy prices are at their lowest.
The plan would also include £16m in funding for the development of smart charging technologies.
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