AllCosts report 2025

Executive Summary Q4 2025

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In our previous Q3 report, we noted a small but significant shift as the dial started to move down on home charging costs, and in Q4 2025 we saw more evidence of this as drivers’ domestic energy average cost dropped to 23p per kWh.

While we have been tracking these rates over the past two years, the average tariff has always been broadly in line with the OFGEM price cap average, or higher. That is, until the middle of 2025.

However, a growing number of drivers are switching to tariffs that offer cheaper off-peak EV charging, which is starting to bring that figure down. As a result, it is becoming less closely linked to the OFGEM average and wider fluctuations in the energy market.

It’s a slow fall, but with the thousands of drivers involved, moving the needle takes a lot of time, especially if there is no major cost turbulence happening in the energy industry.

How much?

Clearly the two sets of numbers vary. Why are domestic energy prices rising again? Key drivers include funding for grid infrastructure upgrades, expanded government support schemes such as the Warm Home Discount, and investment in nuclear capacity, for example, the building of Sizewell C power station.

So while the cost of domestic power might be rising generally in the past few months, those with EVs are finding cheaper ways to charge.

Alongside the gradual easing of home charging costs, elsewhere prices are moving in less helpful directions - particularly for those reliant on public charging or traditional fuels.

Public charging prices continue to edge upwards, with the average now sitting firmly in the high-60s pence per kWh. Although this represents only a modest quarterly increase, it reinforces a longer-term trend: public charging, on the whole, remains significantly more expensive than home charging, and the gap is no longer narrowing.

Meanwhile, in Q4, petrol and diesel costs have risen again despite relatively benign global oil prices and continued fuel duty freezes. These increases appear disconnected from the fundamentals businesses might expect to influence prices, pointing instead to currency effects, supply constraints and retailer margins.

All said, the data shows a transport energy market that is fragmenting rather than moving in unison as they traditionally often have done, and this illustrates that fleets need to be more strategic than ever to take advantage of longer-term trends.

It seems EV drivers who are able to charge at home are increasingly insulated from wider price volatility, while those dependent on public infrastructure, and those still running ICE vehicles, are exposed to rising and often hard-to-predict costs. This divergence is becoming one of the defining features of the transition period between petrol, diesel and electric mobility.

AllCosts report 2025

HEAD Executive Summary Q4 2025

The Data

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Glossary

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Archive

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Awards

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The Data

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Glossary

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Archive

View more

Awards

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In our previous Q3 report, we noted a small but significant shift as the dial started to move down on home charging costs, and in Q4 2025 we saw more evidence of this as drivers’ domestic energy average cost dropped to 23p per kWh.

While we have been tracking these rates over the past two years, the average tariff has always been broadly in line with the OFGEM price cap average, or higher. That is, until the middle of 2025.

However, a growing number of drivers are switching to tariffs that offer cheaper off-peak EV charging, which is starting to bring that figure down. As a result, it is becoming less closely linked to the OFGEM average and wider fluctuations in the energy market.

It’s a slow fall, but with the thousands of drivers involved, moving the needle takes a lot of time, especially if there is no major cost turbulence happening in the energy industry.

How much?

Clearly the two sets of numbers vary. Why are domestic energy prices rising again? Key drivers include funding for grid infrastructure upgrades, expanded government support schemes such as the Warm Home Discount, and investment in nuclear capacity, for example, the building of Sizewell C power station.

So while the cost of domestic power might be rising generally in the past few months, those with EVs are finding cheaper ways to charge.

Alongside the gradual easing of home charging costs, elsewhere prices are moving in less helpful directions - particularly for those reliant on public charging or traditional fuels.

Public charging prices continue to edge upwards, with the average now sitting firmly in the high-60s pence per kWh. Although this represents only a modest quarterly increase, it reinforces a longer-term trend: public charging, on the whole, remains significantly more expensive than home charging, and the gap is no longer narrowing.

Meanwhile, in Q4, petrol and diesel costs have risen again despite relatively benign global oil prices and continued fuel duty freezes. These increases appear disconnected from the fundamentals businesses might expect to influence prices, pointing instead to currency effects, supply constraints and retailer margins.

All said, the data shows a transport energy market that is fragmenting rather than moving in unison as they traditionally often have done, and this illustrates that fleets need to be more strategic than ever to take advantage of longer-term trends.

It seems EV drivers who are able to charge at home are increasingly insulated from wider price volatility, while those dependent on public infrastructure, and those still running ICE vehicles, are exposed to rising and often hard-to-predict costs. This divergence is becoming one of the defining features of the transition period between petrol, diesel and electric mobility.

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