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Budget 2026 EV charging. Public EV charging VAT 20% UK. Cost of Public EV Charging Review. This week on Primetime EV Live: four stories and an explainer in about 25 minutes.THE BUDGET GAVE, AND TOOK. The Treasury set up a tariff porting taskforce and a £100m fund to cut local public charging prices from spring 2027. It also wrote 20% VAT on public and workplace charging into law from 1 November. The government's own review finds rapid-only drivers pay 24p a mile against 22p for petrol, and public AC prices are up 69% in real terms since 2021.HYUNDAI IONIQ 6 FROM £33,240. The facelift qualifies for the £3,750 Electric Car Grant, with an 84kWh battery on every UK car and up to 422 miles WLTP. Charged at home it costs around £140 a year to run on 7,500 miles. Mostly on rapids, around £1,700.EXPLAINER: WHAT IS TARIFF PORTING? Plug into a public post near home and pay your household rate, plus an access fee (the review's example is £200 a year). Our maths puts it at 4.5p to 10p a mile, against about 15p on public AC today. No dates are set.WHO PAYS FOR CHEAPER CHARGING? The review's fuel-certificate idea would add under 0.4p a litre. The government hasn't adopted it. The bigger risk is savings never reaching drivers.MORE CHARGERS, NO CHEAPER. Zapmap counts 124,738 UK public charge points, with ultra-rapids up 39% in a year. But the review finds rapids in use only 3–4% of the time, so fixed costs land on very few kilowatt hours. Price anxiety is the new range anxiety.──────────────────────────────⚡ JOIN THE PRIMETIME EV CLUB — FREEThe cheapest public charging rates every month, plus the best lease deals we find. Direct to your inbox, no algorithm.👉 primetimeev.com/club📧 club@primetimeev.com──────────────────────────────