Home EV charger subsidy: what is available?

Short and honest: as at July 2026, there is generally no broad national scheme subsidising the purchase of a home EV charger for private individuals. National support around electric driving in recent years has been focused mainly on the car itself, and those schemes are limited, change and are sometimes already exhausted. The charger on your own wall mostly falls outside them.

That surprises people, because a home charger feels like a logical extension of electric driving. But the government steers more towards the car and public charging infrastructure than the private charger at home. Anyone who comes across a concrete subsidy amount for a home charger online would do well to look at where it comes from. Often it is about a local scheme, about the car, or about a different year.

Our advice is down-to-earth: work out your purchase without a national subsidy. If something comes along unexpectedly, that is a welcome bonus. But do not base your decision on a national pot that does not exist for the charger itself.

Where there is little to be had nationally, sometimes there is something locally. Some local authorities and provinces have pots for sustainability or sustainable mobility where in certain years a charging point or part of the installation costs can be covered. Sometimes it is not a grant but a low-interest sustainability loan. In Noord-Brabant these kinds of schemes run via the local authority, the province or an energy advice desk, and they vary by location.

Two things characterise these schemes. They change: what was available last year may be gone this year, and vice versa. And they are often limited: the budget runs out at some point and it is first come, first served. Do not count on them, but do check whether anything is running in your local authority before you buy or place the order.

The quickest route: search on your own local authority's website for sustainability, energy or electric driving, or call the local energy advice desk. You will find out within a few minutes whether something is currently available and on what terms. We can tell you what is technically possible and what it costs; check the current subsidy status at that official source.

If you drive or work commercially, the picture changes. For sole traders and self-employed people a home EV charger may fall under business costs, with VAT and depreciation you can process through your accounts. That is not a subsidy, but a tax route, and how it works out exactly depends on your situation and whether you use the car and the charger commercially.

For employees with a company car it runs differently again. The benefit-in-kind comes into play, and often the employer or leasing company installs or pays for the home charger, with an arrangement about the power you charge at home. This is genuinely bespoke per scheme. One employer arranges the charger and the installation in full, another works with an allowance or a fixed monthly amount.

What we pass on to you: if you belong to this group, ask your accountant, employer or leasing company about the exact scheme before you buy or have anything installed yourself. We ensure a safe, correct installation to NEN 1010; the tax or commercial route is decided by you together with whoever advises you on that. Here too, check the current terms.

If you look honestly at the numbers, the biggest saving around a home EV charger usually lies not in a subsidy, but in how you charge. A car is a significant user, and the difference between charging at an expensive moment and charging at a cheap moment adds up over the course of a year. There is real money to be made with a smart approach.

Two things make the difference. With a dynamic energy contract you pay the hourly rate at that moment, and a smart charger can automatically charge when power is cheap, often at night or in the middle of the day. And if you have solar panels, you can charge during the day on your own generation instead of feeding it back for a low rate. Especially now that net metering is being phased out, using your own solar power yourself becomes more attractive.

That is therefore not a subsidy, but a change in what you save, and that is largely in your own hands. So choose an EV charger that can handle dynamic tariffs and your solar panels, and look at the running costs over the years, not just the purchase price. That is where the gain lies that you can actually steer.