EV Charger Installers for UK Car Dealerships

Car dealerships have an unusual EV charging profile: two distinct demand sources sharing a site, plus a manufacturer specification that often dictates the hardware. Customer test-drive and handover bays need rapid throughput; the workshop needs slower, longer-duration bays for diagnostics and battery conditioning. Get either wrong and the site either over-spends or under-serves.

The 1132 installers on this page are all OZEV-authorised for commercial work on the public GOV.UK list. OZEV does not publish a dealership sub-tag, and manufacturer-approved-installer lists are separate and brand-specific — so the right next step is to cross-check this directory against your brand's approved list, where one exists, before shortlisting.

Typical dealership scope

• Customer-facing rapid DC, 50–150 kW — for test-drive returns, pre-handover top-ups and customer courtesy charges. Visibility from the showroom matters; siting is part of the sales proposition.
• Workshop AC, 7–22 kW — multiple slow bays for diagnostic dwell, battery conditioning, pre-delivery inspection (PDI). Hardware is straightforward; what matters is socket count.
• Staff and fleet AC, 7 kW — Workplace Charging Scheme eligible off-street parking. Often the easiest grant claim on site.

Brand-mandated standards

Most franchised dealers receive a brand specification from the manufacturer — required hardware, branding, signage, minimum socket count per dealership and sometimes a preferred installer list. The commercial reality is that the manufacturer contract usually overrides choosing on price alone. The installer's value-add is delivering the brand spec inside the time window the brand has mandated.

The grant picture

• Workplace Charging Scheme applies to staff and dealer-fleet off-street parking — up to £500 per socket (the rate in force since 1 April 2026), 75% cap, 40-socket cap per applicant. Demonstrator and customer test-drive bays are public-facing and usually outside scope.
• Customer-facing rapid bays are commercially funded, though some manufacturers contribute to brand-spec hardware as part of the franchise agreement. Confirm with your area manager what the brand pays for.

Common pitfalls

• Specifying customer rapid bays at the back of the lot because that's where the supply is. Customers won't walk; siting visible from the showroom is part of the sale.
• Forgetting workshop dwell bays in the design — a 5-bay EV workshop running PDI on new cars needs 5 sockets, not one shared rapid.
• Signing manufacturer-spec hardware without checking the back-office is OCPP-open. Some brand specs lock you into proprietary software; year-five contract review is harder.

Buying questions a dealer principal should ask

• Are you on our brand's approved installer list, and what's your current lead time for a site of this size?
• How are customer bays and staff bays separated for the WCS claim, and what's the staff-bay socket count?
• Is the workshop dwell-bay count designed around year-three EV throughput, not year-one?
• Is the back-office OCPP-compliant so we can change CPMS in year five without re-cabling?