“Can I have an EV charger if I have not got a driveway?” For years that question had one answer, and it was no. No off-street parking meant no chargepoint, no grant, and a conversation that was over in about nine seconds.
That is no longer true. And the households it used to shut out are the least likely to know it has changed, because they asked once, were told no, and never asked again.
What actually changed
There is now a chargepoint grant for households with on-street parking only. It is worth £500 — indicative, and confirmed at application — and it goes towards a cross-pavement solution: the channel or gully that takes a cable from the house to the kerb without leaving it lying across the footway.
The rates were restated on 1 April 2026, and the scheme closes on 31 March 2027, along with the other four chargepoint grants. That is a genuine date rather than a manufactured one, which makes it one of the few deadlines you can put in an advert without feeling grubby about it.
The other £500 most people never find
There is a separate £500 grant — again indicative — for renters and for people who own a flat, where there is private off-street parking. Two different households, the same figure, a completely different rule.
That is the whole problem with this trade in one line. The money is not hard to get. Working out which of five schemes is yours is hard, and gov.uk is written to be correct rather than to be read by somebody standing in their kitchen at nine at night.
The homeowner is not asking how much the grant is. They are asking whether they are the kind of person it is for.
Why this is worth more than it looks
Think about the streets this applies to. Victorian terraces, town-centre flats, anywhere the parking is on the road because it has always been on the road. Those are not marginal addresses. They are whole postcodes at a time, and every one of them contains people who want an electric car and have quietly written off the idea of charging at home.
They are not searching “EV charger grant”, because they believe it is not for them. They are searching “EV charger no driveway” and “can I charge an electric car on the street”. Those are different searches with a different emotional temperature: the first is shopping, the second is somebody checking whether they are allowed.
Whoever answers the second one is not competing on price. They are the reason the conversation is happening at all.
Your website has to do the branching
Five schemes are open. Renters and flat owners, households with on-street parking only, landlords, workplaces, and state-funded education. Whether somebody gets £500, £2,000 or nothing turns on whether they rent, own a flat, have a driveway, own a portfolio, or run a school.
A homeowner cannot resolve that from the source material, and you should not be resolving it by phone every evening for people who turn out not to qualify. It has to happen on the page, before it reaches your diary.
A straight answer on how we do that: there is no stock chargepoint checker to hand you. ChargeCheck was retired and we would rather say so than show you a mock-up. What runs on an EV installer’s site today is AnswerHQ — it reads your own pages, answers from them, books the survey, and says “I do not know” rather than inventing an answer in your name. A chargepoint checker configured to the schemes you actually install against is a build, with a price and a timeline, discussed on a call.
Where paid search fits
Somebody typing “ev charger grant no driveway” has already decided they want the car and the charger. There is nothing left to persuade them of. The only question is whether the page they land on answers the thing they typed or hands them a brochure and a contact form.
Point the advert at a page that answers it, and the click has somewhere useful to go. Point it at a homepage and you have paid for a visit that ends with them back on the results page. Same keyword, same budget, and completely different economics — which is why we would rather run the ads into your own tools than into anybody else’s portal.
What you get out of it
An enquiry that arrives knowing which scheme applies to them, with the property details attached, generated on your own website. Nobody else gets a copy of it, because there is nobody else in the chain — which is the entire difference between generating your own and buying shared leads.
See what this looks like for EV charger installers, or book fifteen minutes and we will go through the five schemes against the work you actually take on.
Grant figures on this page were checked against gov.uk on 30 August 2026 and are indicative — the binding figure is the one from the official application. Spotted something out of date? Tell us and we will fix it.