Sixteen local authorities in England receive new government EV charging funding

It will support local authorities in England to work with the charging infrastructure industry. This will help deliver a step-change in the commercialisation and deployment of mainly low power on-street charging infrastructure.  

The funding expands the current Local Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (LEVI) pilot, and will sit alongside the existing On-Street Residential Chargepoint Scheme (ORCS).  A LEVI capability fund will also help councils to fund dedicated resource to develop in-house expertise and capability to coordinate chargepoint plans and work with private operators.

The 16 new pilot scheme areas:

• £200,000 to Buckinghamshire
• £1.9 million to Cumbria
• £1 million to Hackney
• £2.3 million to Harborough
• £1.8 million to Hounslow
• £600,000 to Lancashire
• £1.6 million to Norfolk
• £1.6 million to Oxfordshire
• £1.6 million to Rotherham
• £800,000 to Sunderland
• £2.5 million to Waltham Forest
• £1 million to Warwickshire
• £8.5 million to West Midlands
• £2.9 million to West Sussex
• £3 million to West Yorkshire
• £1.9 million to York
• £7.4 million to Durham*
• £4.4 million to Barnet*
• £3.6 million to North Yorkshire*

*original pilot expansion.

LEVI Capability Fund 
Those LAs eligible will receive a letter to inform them of their funding allocation which will help them to scale up their EV charging strategy. To access it LAs must be either be:

• tier 1 local authority or combined authority (acting on behalf of authorities in their region) in England
• partnership or consortium led by a tier 1 local authority within England

 See the Energy Saving website for more information.  The application deadline is 10 March.

A further £7 million funding is being made available for the existing On-Street Residential Chargepoint Scheme.