Unless they’ve been living on Jupiter for the past few years, it’s hard to believe that there are any fleet managers that haven’t already introduced EVs to the majority of their fleets.

With sales of new EVs currently running at more than one in five of all cars leaving showrooms and up by more than 20 per cent on last year, their growth shows little sign of abating.

But despite that transition to EVs in terms of the vehicles, few fleet managers have given much consideration to how those cars are charged, especially at the homes of their employees. And that is arguably just as important, if not more so, than the actual switch to EVs in the first place.

Why? The reason is that home EV chargers are far from the wall sockets of yesteryear, they are now a piece of dynamic, smart charging technology that can help fleet managers to save money, provide detailed quality data on CO2 savings and make their drivers more efficient.

Ohme’s range of dynamic home EV chargers has been specifically developed to enable drivers to charge their vehicles at the times of the cheapest rates and lowest CO2 available on the electricity network. However, Ohme’s app shows a driver detailed information on their charging costs and CO2 savings on a daily, weekly, monthly and even annual basis.

All of the information on those savings can also be provided to the driver’s fleet manager via our app meaning they have accurate, real-world data at their fingertips. Drivers can also be reimbursed automatically for their charging costs via their company’s fleet software, often even before their electricity bill is due, meaning drivers are never out of pocket. Furthermore, if the driver also charges a personal EV via the same charger, Ohme’s Multicar functionality enables them to see all of that data for each car separately.

And those savings can be dramatic. A typical UK driver with a petrol car that does 6800 miles at 40mpg would spend £1218 a year on fuel alone at today’s rates. For the same mileage, an EV driver charging at home on the standard variable tariff of electricity of 26.11p/kWh would pay £443. However, that same EV driver charging their car on a typical smart tariff at home at just 8p/kWh would spend just £136.80 for an entire year.

Those savings could be enough to pay for the cost of the charger itself within the space of a year, which is why many fleet managers are now looking to provide employees with home chargers as an incentive to make the switch. The benefit of reliable and dependable home charging that drivers can depend on it each night, is not to be underestimated. The benefit for the fleet manager is access to that good quality data mentioned earlier which, from 1st January 2026 and the arrival of the UK Sustainability Disclosure Requirements, is more important than ever.

SDR reporting will give a renewed  consideration for vehicle fuel types and also how those vehicles are used – and even how EVs are charged. EVs obviously have an advantage over ICE vehicles on tailpipe emissions, but if a driver can charge at home at off-peak times using a smart energy tariff, they will have a much better CO2/kWh on their charging than another using a public charger. But if those fleet managers can get detailed and accurate real-world CO2 figures rather than estimates, then that will be to their overall benefit as well.

Not so long ago, just switching your fleet to electric, or predominantly electric, would have been enough, today’s fleet managers have to go so much further and EV sales are only heading one way – up.