At EVA England, we represent the voices of electric vehicle drivers and advocate to make the transition to electric vehicles fairer, more affordable and more accessible for everyone.

Our work spans national policy, industry engagement, and public awareness, and thanks to our members’ engagement we’ve ensured that the needs and experiences of drivers are heard at every level.

Since our formation, we’ve seen rapid developments in the market, along with many policy initiatives. Whether we’re responding to government consultations, working with charge point operators, or supporting new EV drivers through outreach and resources, our focus is always on making electric driving better and accessible to everyone.

Through surveys, workshops, and direct feedback, our members play a vital role in shaping the policies we champion.

 

 

This year, we’re continuing to champion the needs of EV drivers by pushing for action and change where it matters most.

Our current priorities reflect the findings of our latest survey report, Steer the Conversation, and using these insights to push for fair, affordable and accessible charging for every driver, wherever they live.

Explore our EV policy priorities to see the issues guiding our work

There is still work to do to ensure driving electric is a seamless, affordable and enjoyable experience for all of us: to make sure the used car market is stable and affordable; to bring down the costs of public charging; and to improve the often frustrating experience we all have at public chargers – be that reliability, accessibility or payment processes.

Our campaigns are shaped by what drivers tell us they care about most:

  • eVED fairness – We’re calling on Government to delay eVED until at least 2030, and redesign the scheme so it doesn’t leave EV drivers out of pocket.
  • Closing the charging divide – We’re campaigning for equal access to charging for those without off-street parking, advocating for social leasing schemes and fighting to make sure salary sacrifice schemes continue.
  • Second-hand EVs – We’re pushing for EV battery health standards to make electric vehicles accessible to lower-income households.
  • Public charging costs – We’re pushing for tax and law changes to bring down the price and make them easier to use.
  • Accessibility – We ‘re working to make accessible public chargers a legal requirement, and pushing for signage reforms to make chargers easier to find.

 

We kickstarted the year with a series of member workshops on topics such as public charging consumer experience, second-hand EVs, and misinformation, as well as a session with HM Treasury on eVED, the proposed pay-per-mile scheme.

Insights from these sessions directly informed our white paper, Putting the Driver First, which launched in Parliament on 3rd June.

We’re also planning a workshop on the Government’s new Public Charging Review with Department for Transport officials.

 

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Featured Campaigns

Putting the Driver FirstOur white paper, Putting the Driver First, sets out what Government and industry must do to build an EV transition that works for everyone.The Driver's View on eVEDThe UK’s proposed pay per mile EV tax, eVED, is raising concerns. See what drivers think and EVA England’s recommendations to Government.EV Constituency DashboardSee how England’s constituencies are progressing on EV adoption and public charging with our EV Constituency Dashboard.Our Annual Driver SurveyOur annual survey gathers insights from drivers to highlight what's working, what's not, and what’s needed to make EV adoption easier.Our Cross-Pavement Solutions ReportOur report warns that drivers without driveways are being locked out of affordable home charging by cost, confusion and council delays, even where cross-pavement solutions could work.Our Cable Weight ReportOur reports reveals that heavier EV charging cables are creating barriers for disabled drivers, with over half reporting difficulties that limit independent travel.Our ZEV Mandate Consultation ResponseOur report sets out 14 key recommendations to help government policy make EV adoption faster, fairer, and more accessible for all drivers.Charge Up ChangeWrite to your MP and encourage them to support practical and actionable EV policies that make electric driving work for everyone.

2025

2025 has been a hugely successful year for EVA England’s campaigning work

  • Early in the year, we submitted our response to the Government’s ZEV Mandate consultation and published our Key Steps to Driving EV Demand report.

This set out not only our support for the mandate, but what drivers say is needed to make switching to electric easier and more affordable in practice.

  • We also published new research on charging cable weight, highlighting the accessibility challenges faced by many disabled drivers and threaten to exclude over a million people from the UK’s transition to electric transport.

 

 

  • Alongside this, we launched our Charge Up Change campaign to give drivers a simple way to contact their MP directly, raise key concerns, and offer practical and actionable policy recommendations by EVA England.

 

  • Beyond research and campaigning, we’ve continued to press for action to reduce the upfront cost of purchasing an EV and helped secure meaningful policy progress. We also engaged with the Planning and Infrastructure Bill to ensure accessibility of public charging can be mandated by law and to support those without driveways access more affordable charging through the new cross-pavement fund.

The Bill received Royal Assent in December, supporting the acceleration of chargepoint rollout, embedding accessibility through PAS 1899, and ensuring future charging points are reliable and safe for drivers with disabilities.

2024

We were thrilled to see key figures from the EV landscape in attendance, including the Chair of the Transport Committee, the Chair of the APPG for Electric Vehicles, and the Government Minister for Decarbonisation.
This manifesto reflects the voices of our members, and was shaped through a series of workshops earlier in the year.

With a record-breaking 1,700+ respondents, the findings were clear:
91% would not return to a petrol or diesel car, backed up by the 86% who are finding EVs cheaper to run.

  • Another big highlight this year was the new public charging regulations kicking in in November, which promise to make the charging experience even better.

We will be looking closely to see how Open Data changes the landscape and how the 99% uptime, something that we fought hard to get, will be enforced going forward.

 

2023

Since our funding, we had 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.

 

  • During the summer, we ran the Great EV Charging Survey, the 2023 edition of our EV driver survey, and the largest of its kind with over 1,600 responses.

We published our findings in December in the Great EV Charging Report,  covering EV driver experiences, charging habits, and consumer confidence.

  • In October, we launched the Constituency EV Map, a detailed overview of each constituency’s journey towards sustainable transport.

Its goal is to be a useful tool for EV drivers, MPs and policymakers as it allows them to check their local area and see national trends.

  • And finally, in November we launched Powering Up, a policy report on how to boost access to electric vehicles.

Powering Up demonstrates how we can get more people into EVs, especially those on lower income, through three simple, pragmatic and cost-effective ways.

2022

  • We saw great results in the announcements of the ZEV Mandate, the consumer experience regulations, the new BSI standards on EV chargers, and the extension of BiK Rates.

 

2021

In our response, we called for a number of improvements needed, on behalf of over 1,000 EV drivers. 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 and we have continued to make representations on these points.

 

  • 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, we organised the Electric Road to COP26, an EV rally to COP26 across Europe to Glasgow, calling for faster transition to EVs globally.

2020

In July 2020, we ran our first EV drivers survey, asking 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. We 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.

 

  • We are represented on the Steering Committee of the British Standards Institute and Motability project looking at accessibility of EV chargepoints.
  • We are part of the OZEV Second-Hand EV Working Group.
  • We made a submission to the Competition and Markets Authority Electric Vehicle Charging market study.
  • We are active members of the ZEMO Members Council.
  • We are involved in ongoing Government work on improving EV infrastructure across England.
  • 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.

 

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