The car makers giving away free home chargers worth £1,000 to convince you to switch to an electric vehicle

Britain's motorists are yet to be entirely convinced about switching to electric cars.

While top-line vehicle registration data suggests a dramatic uplift in sales, demand is currently being driven by fleets and businesses rather than Joe Public paying with their hard-earned cash.

It is why manufacturers last year took £4billion from their own pockets to heavily discount new EV prices in an effort to lure more Britons to go green.

And they're willing to part with even more of their profits right now with some of the biggest automotive names offering free homecharging devices with their electric vehicle sales.

These wallboxes aren't cheap - they typically cost over £1,000. And they have been shown to add more value to your property; according to Open Property Group, a homecharger will add 1.7 per cent to your house price - based on the average property value, that's almost £5,000.

On top of this, charging at home can save almost £500 a year compared to public charging, and over £1,300 compared to filling up with petrol.

As well as complimentary wallbox chargers, EV brands are giving away free charging credits and even cash.

We’ve rounded up the best deals being offered to EV converts right now. But you might need to hurry because some are ending this month...

Ford is currently the leader when it comes to free charger offerings.

It has an offer in place that can be triggered when you purchase any model across its entire passenger EV range.

In April, the car giant launched its Power Promise, providing customers with a free Ohme wallbox home and installation, which is worth £899.

If that’s not enticing enough, Ford’s also offers a free 10,000 miles ‘home energy bonus’ if you sign up to the Intelligent Octopus Go smart energy tariff.

To put that into perspective, that's 3,000 miles more of free charging than the average Briton drivers per year.

Based on today's average unleaded price (132p a litre), drivers of relatively frugal small petrol cars (returning 50mpg) would spend £1,200 at the pumps to cover that sort of mileage.

The Octopus tariff also includes a smart rate of just 7p/kWh for off-peak charging, saving up to 70 per cent in energy costs to guarantee cheap refuelling even when the 10,000 miles of credits run out.

Ford buyers also get an eight-year, 100,000-mile high voltage component and battery warranty cover, free-of-charge five-year service plan, and free-of-charge five-year towing assistance in case their EV breaks down, and access to Ford’s BlueOval charging network.

And if you don’t want - or need - the charger, you can opt for £500 cash instead.

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Volkswagen’s helping both EV buyers who want to charge at home and those who are without off-street parking and therefore reliant on the public network.

If you’re in the market for a new VW EV, you can choose either a free home charger or £500 charging credit.

The generous offer is available across the entire ID model range – all of VW’s EVs.

The wallbox is a 7kW Ohme tethered or untethered charger.

You can also get up to 30,000 free miles with OVO Charge Anytime if you add the free ad-on to your OVO energy tariff, which VW says can save you up to £533 a year off home charging.

Plug-in hybrid buyers can get an Ohme charger too or £750 towards a finance deposit on top of existing offers (see full terms) or £750 off the retail price.

Audi is offering buyers of its new EVs and plug-in hybrid models a free Ohme e-Pod 7kW home EV charger, tethered or untethered (charging lead attached or not attached).

A full list of models can be found on the Audi website, and the comprehensive offer started on 1 April 2025 and runs until the end of this month (30 June 2025).

It is also available to retail customers who purchase an Approved Used fully electric Q6 e-tron, Q8 e-tron or e-tron GT.

Alternatively, customers can claim £500 against the list price of a new electric Audi or £250-£500 towards the finance deposit of a used EV, depending on whether it’s under or over three years old.

The German marque is additionally offering up to 30,000 free charging miles with OVO Energy when you buy a new Audi EV.

Volvo’s fully electric cars are now available to buy with a complimentary EV charger thrown in.

If you buy the EX30 Plus or Ultra small SUV, the EC40, EX40, EX90 and plug-in XC60 and XC90 models then the Swedish car maker will give you a free Ohme home charger with standard installation.

Tethered Home Pro or untethered e-Pod options are both available, which retail from £999 and £949 with installation included in the price.

The offer is available until further notice, subject to availability.

Similarly, Skoda is offering its retail loyalty customers a free 7kW Ohme Home Pro EV charger or a 7kW Ohme ePod home charger, both with standard installation included, if they buy a new Skoda EV.

Specifically, the new Skoda Elroq or Enyaq models (Enyaq or Enyaq Coupe).

The offer runs from 1 April 2025 to 30 June 2025 (inclusive).

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Last year, the Andersen Index compared a 1.2-litre Vauxhall Corsa to a Vauxhall Corsa Electric over a monthly average of 1,000 miles to see how much EV drivers could theoretically save.

Live pricing from six popular energy providers at the time (including Ovo Energy, Octopus Energy, British Gas and e.on) gave an average smart charge rate of 7.9p/kWh.

When multiplied by the 230kWh of battery energy required to power the Corsa E for 1,000 miles, an EV owner would pay just £18.17 a month, or £218.04 a year.

An equivalent petrol Corsa would need around 87 litres of unleaded petrol to drive 1,000 miles (at 52mpg, that's 11.42 miles a litre).

Using the RAC average at the time the research was conducted (148p a litre), a petrol driver would have been forking out £128.76 per month, or £1,545.12 a year.

That's a whopping difference of £1,327.92 that could be saved by driving an EV and smart charging at home.

People who don't use a smart charger, or don't take advantage of EV-specific tariffs, pay a monthly cost of £56.35, based on Ofgem's energy price cap average standard rate tariff of 24.5p/kWh. Each year this EV driver would pay £676.20.