IF you’ve bought an electric car and are charging it at home, switching your energy tariff could save you hundreds of pounds every year. Suppliers will be keen to have you as a customer – especially since you’re likely to do most of your charging overnight, when the demand on the grid is lowest and the wholesale price of power is cheap.
That means most of the major suppliers offer a special EV tariff featuring an off-peak price per unit of electricity, which will be a fraction of the cost at busy times. Since the previous Auto Express tariff test back in 2021 there has been turmoil in the energy market and prices for power have risen steeply, but this means the off-peak savings now available are even more dramatic. Also,
