The Local Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Fund (LEVI) is a central government fund aimed at local authorities to support the deployment of EV charging infrastructure.
It has two aims:
The majority of charge points must benefit drivers without a driveway and is likely to include on-street charging units. However, more centralised options can also be funded, such as car parks serving nearby residents or car clubs.
A minority of charge points can support commercial drivers where no EV chargers are available at the business location, and private hire vehicles and taxis.
Charge points for home charging on driveways, workplaces, rapid charging at motorway service stations, or for buses, blue light vehicles or heavy goods vehicles are not considered.
LEVI funding is intended to subsidise many low-power, distributed charge points that are less commercially viable.
However, most private funders want to run concessions targeting the most profitable sites.
It will therefore be necessary to build a portfolio that uses a mix of LEVI and private funding to support a portfolio of slow, fast and rapid chargers. Under a portfolio approach, the more commercially viable sites will cross subsidise those sites with poorer economics that are the focus of the LEVI scheme
Dorset Council are using 3rd party funding and LEVI funds to cross-subsidise less economic sites
We also have our own fully funded charge point offering, so can bring the third-party finance needed for LEVI in one package.
We also offer a full service of feasibility studies to help you understand the technical possibilities, costs and paybacks of different chargers at different locations. That way, we can help you refine your programmes from an initial brief to a final deliverable portfolio.
