EVA England - Our Work and Campaigns : EVA England

The time since EVA England’s formation has seen rapid developments in the market, and many policy initiatives.
EVA England campaigns and advocates on behalf of EV drivers to the government, media and industry. Thanks to our members engagement, we have responded to many government consultations, including ending the sale of new petrol and diesel cars and vans, and advocated for a 2030 Phase Out date based on a survey of over 1000 EV drivers.

Since our funding, we have been campaigning for Public Charge Points regulations, and these were finally passed in July 2023.
From better reliability, clearer pricing, easier payments and open data, these regulations will empower UK EV drivers.

This year so far, we have launched the Constituency EV Map and Powering Up, our new policy report. These are the first steps as we work towards a more comprehensive Drivers Manifesto ahead of the General Election.

We believe that everyone deserves access to clean transportation and are commited to empowering our members to advocate for clean, zero-emission transport.
If you’re not a member yet, make sure to join EVA England to support our work and ensure that together we can make our voices heard.

We are represented on the Steering Committee of the British Standards Institute and Motability project looking at accessibility of EV chargepoints.
We were part of the EVET Working Group 2 looking a consumer redress issues for EV drivers and how these can be improved in order to enable easy and convenient redress where people have problems with EVs. We are now in EVET WG3 which is working to make recommendations.
We made a submission to the Competition and Markets Authority Electric Vehicle Charging market study.
We are involved in ongoing Government work on improving EV infrastructure across England.
We are active members of the Green Finance Institute’s Coalition for the Decarbonisation of Road Transport.
We have an alliance with EV driver associations in Scotland, Northern Ireland, Ireland, Wales, and around the globe.
We are also working in a number of Government, Parliament (the Select Committee on Transport and the APPG on Electric Vehicles) and industry working groups, all advancing the EV driver agenda and raising issues brought to us by our members.

2020

In July 2020, we ran a survey asking current and prospective EV drivers for their views on the Government’s ambitions to bring forward the phase out date ending the sale of new petrol and diesel cars and vans. We received over 1,100 responses, which we used to feed into our response on the Government’s consultation. The overwhelming majority of our survey participants indicated that the phase out date should be moved to a date earlier than 2035.

EVA England, therefore, advocated for the earliest possible phase out date for the sale of new petrol and diesel cars and vans, which we see as 2030, and that the phase out should ensure that only new cars and vans with zero-tailpipe emissions are able to be sold after 2030.

In November 2020, the Government announced its decision to bring forward the phasing out of the sale of new petrol and diesel cars and vans by 2030 – ten years earlier than planned – as part of the Prime Minister’s Ten Point Plan for a Green Industrial Revolution.

EVA England welcomed the UK Government’s confirmed commitment to end the sale of new petrol and diesel cars and vans by 2030. However, in the run up to the 2030 phase-out date there are still a number of challenges to be addressed, ranging from supporting motorists to be able to switch to electric vehicles in the most affordable way possible, to ensuring drivers have confidence in the UK public charging network.

2021

In April 2021, we organised a detailed survey in response to the Government’s consultation on the consumer experience of EV chargepoints. We called for a number of the improvements needed in our response on behalf of over 1000 EV drivers (April 2021). These included simplified payment systems, clear and agreed pricing, improved reliability of chargepoints, improved signage and accessibility in general, and access to more open data in our response to the Government (April 2021) and we have continued to make representations on these points.

In November 2021, we responded on behalf of our members to the Government’s Future of Transport Regulatory Review consultation again representing the interests and views of consumers on EV car parking, consumer redress and improved EV infrastructure.

We made a submission on the Government’s proposals and supported the call for a ZEV mandate to enable faster transition to EVs through the 2020s.

With international EV association partners in GEVA including EVA Scotland, we organised an EV rally to COP26 across Europe to Glasgow, calling for faster transition to EVs globally.

2022

We have seen great results in the announcements of the ZEV Mandate, the consumer experience regulations, the new BSI standards on EV chargers, and the extending of BIK Rates.