Home charger installs for fleet, van and company car drivers

Running a Fleets-at-Home Programme

For fleets whose drivers take vehicles home, installing at the driver's address is almost always cheaper and faster than building depot infrastructure. There is no trenching, no supply upgrade and no queue for bays, but the programme succeeds or fails on administration rather than electrics.

One standard, every address

The point of a managed programme is consistency. Every driver gets the same charger specification, the same installation standard, the same certification pack and the same support route. That matters when a fleet manager needs to evidence compliance across forty properties they have never visited, and it removes the variability that comes from drivers arranging their own installs with whoever answers the phone locally.

Surveying remotely

Each driver completes a short photo-based survey covering the consumer unit, the meter position, the proposed charger location and the earthing arrangement. That identifies the small proportion of properties needing extra work, a consumer unit upgrade, an unusually long cable run, or an off-street parking issue, before an engineer is dispatched, which is what keeps first-time-fix rates high and cost per install predictable.

Reimbursement without arguments

Two approaches work. HMRC Advisory Electric Rates reimburse a fixed pence-per-mile and require nothing more than mileage records, simple, defensible, and slightly rough at the edges. Per-kWh reimbursement uses the charger's own metered data to pay for the actual energy delivered to the vehicle, which is fairer to drivers on expensive tariffs and produces a cleaner audit trail. Whichever you choose, write it into the driver policy before the first install rather than after the first complaint.

Properties, tenancies and moving on

A charger is a fixture and stays with the property. Landlord consent is required for rented homes and is worth confirming during onboarding rather than on the doorstep. When a driver moves house or leaves the fleet, the programme covers a fresh install at the new address, which is why the per-driver cost should be budgeted as a rolling programme rather than a one-off capital project.

Reporting the fleet manager actually needs

Installations completed and outstanding, certification held per address, maintenance activity, and energy delivered per driver for reimbursement. That set answers the finance, compliance and operational questions in one report, and it is what we provide monthly as standard.