The costs of powering your fleet from domestic energy is something of a dichotomy.

On the one hand, the average cost closely tracks the OFGEM price cap figure month after month, suggesting that it is the most predictable way to charge a fleet. If we use this as our benchmark, the cost of fully charging a 60kWh battery would be £14.40.

On the other, a business could also be paying double that, or a sixth of it. At the extreme end, 54p per kWh means that 60kWh battery would cost more than £32 to charge. Then, at the lowest price of 4p per kWh, the cost to charge would be £2.40.

Whichever way a driver is charging, there’s no way the single Advisory Electric Rate of 7p per mile can hope to reimburse such variation accurately. Businesses need to know the exact cost of each home charge, and be able to control, and budget, for it.

That’s where Allstar can come in: showing you exactly what every charge has cost, so you can accurately pay for the true cost of charging business electric vehicles at home.

After dropping last year from a high of 82p, the average cost of public charging has remained very stable for the past four months, hovering around the 77p mark.

The UK Government has warned that energy prices may rise over the Spring[SM1] , and it will be interesting to see how quickly public charging prices rise - or not - in comparison to the price-capped domestic tariffs.

There are ways to mitigate these costs though: we have teamed up with chargepoint providers such as Be.EV and Smart Charge to offer discounts on tariffs, reducing the amount your drivers pay to plug in.