Electric Car Grant eligible cars: every model on the gov.uk list

On 10 November 2026, 69 entries are on the gov.uk Electric Car Grant list: 21 cars in Band 1 get up to £3,750 off and 48 in Band 2 get up to £1,500 off. The dealer takes the grant off the price of a new car; you never apply for it, and used cars and plug-in hybrids never qualify.

Last updated: 10 November 2026. We check the gov.uk list and update this page on the 10th of every month, and on the day a maker confirms a new approval.

	Band 1	Band 2
Grant	Up to £3,750	Up to £1,500
Entries on gov.uk, 10 November 2026	21	48
Makes with an entry	11	18
Newest dated addition	Hyundai Ioniq 6 facelift (29 October 2026)	Volkswagen ID. Polo (reported 13 October 2026)
Price rule	£37,000 RRP per variant, family up to £42,000	Same

What changed this month?

The Toyota bZ4X has dropped off the list: Carwow listed it at £1,500 on 13 October 2026, and it does not appear on the gov.uk cars page on 10 November 2026. The other two Toyotas, the C-HR+ and Proace City Verso, remain in Band 2. Gov.uk does not say why a model leaves, and the page carries no date, which is why this tracker logs each change against the day we checked.

The newest dated Band 1 car is the Hyundai Ioniq 6 facelift. Hyundai priced it on 29 October 2026 from £33,240 with the £3,750 grant, for the Premium RWD and N Line RWD versions only; our Ioniq 6 facelift prices and range page has the full trim list. Hyundai now has three cars on the list, all in Band 1: the Ioniq 3, Ioniq 6 facelift and Kona Electric.

Earlier in October, the Hyundai Ioniq 3 arrived in Band 1 with every version qualifying, the KGM Torres EVX joined Band 2, and Carwow reported the Volkswagen ID. Polo joining Band 2.

Which cars are eligible for the Electric Car Grant? The full table

These are all 69 gov.uk entries on 10 November 2026, grouped by make. Where gov.uk names a battery or a version, only that version qualifies.

Make	Band 1: up to £3,750	Band 2: up to £1,500
Abarth	500e	600e
Alfa Romeo	None	Junior Elettrica
Alpine	A290	None
Audi	None	A2 e-tron
BMW	iX1, iX2	None
Citroën	ë-C5 Aircross Long Range	ë-C3, ë-C3 Aircross and ë-C3 Urban Range; ë-C4 and ë-C4 X; ë-C5 Aircross; ë-Berlingo; ë-SpaceTourer
Cupra	None	Born, Raval
DS	None	DS3, N°4
Fiat	500e, 500e Urban Range	600e
Ford	Puma Gen-E, E-Tourneo Courier	Capri, Explorer
Hyundai	Ioniq 3, Ioniq 6 Facelift, Kona Electric	None
Jeep	None	Avenger, Compass
KGM	None	Torres EVX
Kia	EV2 Long Range, EV4	EV2, EV3, PV5 Passenger
MINI	Countryman Electric	None
Nissan	Leaf, Micra (52kWh)	Ariya, Micra (40kWh)
Peugeot	None	E-208, E-2008, E-308, E-3008, E-408, E-Rifter, E-Traveller
Renault	4, 5 (52 kWh), Megane, Scenic	5 (40 kWh)
Skoda	None	Elroq, Enyaq, Epiq
Toyota	None	C-HR+, Proace City Verso
Vauxhall	None	Astra, Combo Life, Corsa, Frontera, Grandland, Mokka and Vivaro Life Electric
Volkswagen	None	ID.3 and ID.3 Neo, ID.4, ID.5, ID. Cross, ID. Polo

Four models sit in both bands depending on the version. The Renault 5 and Nissan Micra get £3,750 with the 52 kWh battery and £1,500 with the 40 kWh one, the Kia EV2 Long Range is in Band 1 while the standard EV2 is in Band 2, and the Citroën ë-C5 Aircross Long Range is in Band 1 while the standard car is in Band 2. Check the battery and version on the order, not just the badge.

Nine entries are people carriers with van-based bodies: the ë-Berlingo, ë-SpaceTourer, E-Rifter, E-Traveller, Combo Life, Vivaro Life, Proace City Verso, PV5 Passenger and E-Tourneo Courier. They qualify because the grant covers M1 passenger vehicles. The cargo versions fall under a different scheme, covered in our list of electric vans eligible for the Plug-in Van Grant.

How does a car get on the list?

A car qualifies only if it is new, fully electric, priced at or below £37,000 and made by a company that passes a sustainability test. The gov.uk eligibility guidance, last updated on 1 April 2026, sets these rules:

• the £37,000 limit is the RRP of each variant, including VAT, delivery and any battery lease, and higher versions in the same family qualify up to £42,000;
• zero tailpipe CO2 and at least 100 miles of WLTP range, which rules out every plug-in hybrid;
• a warranty of at least 3 years or 60,000 miles on the car and 8 years or 100,000 miles on the battery;
• a maker with a verified Science Based Target, or a Transition Pathway Initiative rating of level 4 or higher.

The band is a carbon score weighted 70% on where the battery cells are made and 30% on where the car is assembled, using the carbon intensity of each country’s grid. That is why one car can sit in Band 1 with one battery and Band 2 with another. Our explainer on what the Electric Car Grant is and who qualifies goes through the rules for buyers.

What it means for buyers

The grant now reaches some of the lowest prices in the market, but plenty of cheap electric cars sit outside it. The Hyundai Ioniq 3 Advance 42kWh costs £22,245 before the grant and £18,495 after it, the price Hyundai gave when Ioniq 3 orders opened on 5 October 2026.

None of these electric cars from EV Compared’s spec data is on the gov.uk list, though all are priced under £37,000:

Car	List price	WLTP range	Grant
BYD Dolphin Surf	£18,650	137 miles	None
Geely EX2	£20,990	156 miles	None
BYD Dolphin	£26,195	211 miles	None
Jaecoo 5 E5	£27,505	248 miles	None
BYD Atto 2	£30,850	214 miles	None
Geely EX5	£31,990	267 miles	None
Leapmotor B10	£32,495	270 miles	None
Omoda E5	£33,065	267 miles	None
Leapmotor C10	£36,500	263 miles	None

The worked comparison shows how close the two routes have come. The BYD Dolphin Surf at £18,650 is £155 dearer than a granted Ioniq 3 Advance 42kWh. On EV Compared’s figures, the Dolphin Surf costs £136 of list price per mile of WLTP range, about 1.4p a mile to charge at home on a 6.5p/kWh off-peak tariff and 18.0p a mile on public rapid chargers at 82p/kWh. Method: efficiency is WLTP miles divided by usable kWh, and charging losses are ignored; the full method is on our methodology page.

Three mistakes catch buyers out. First, a maker’s own discount is not the government grant, even when it is called one: Leapmotor’s own B03X discount is paid by the brand, not by the Electric Car Grant. Second, the grant does not apply to used cars. Third, the price that counts is each variant’s RRP, so a car advertised “from” under £37,000 may have trims that qualify and trims that do not, as the Ioniq 6 facelift shows.

Who the grant suits: private buyers and businesses buying a new car outright or on finance from a listed brand, where £3,750 off moves the price into a lower bracket. Who it does not: used car buyers, plug-in hybrid buyers, and anyone whose shortlist is mainly BYD, Leapmotor, Jaecoo, Omoda or Geely, where the comparison is on list price alone. Company car drivers should compare the grant with the tax saving in our Electric Car Grant vs salary sacrifice guide.

For a shortlist rather than a full list, see our pick of the cheapest EVs with the grant.

Whether the money lasts to the end of the scheme is covered in our report on how long the Electric Car Grant funding will last.

Method and sources

We read the gov.uk cars page in full on 10 November 2026 and counted entries as gov.uk lists them, so a line such as “ë-C3, ë-C3 Aircross and ë-C3 Urban Range” counts once. Gov.uk does not date the page, so additions and removals are dated from the maker’s press release or from dated reporting by Carwow and electrive, and every source is listed below this article. List prices are the maker’s own on the date given; prices for cars without the grant come from EV Compared’s spec data.

Previous updates

10 November 2026. Gov.uk list checked: 21 Band 1 entries, 48 Band 2 entries. Toyota bZ4X not listed.

29 October 2026. Hyundai prices the Ioniq 6 facelift from £33,240 with the £3,750 grant on Premium RWD and N Line RWD.

13 October 2026. Carwow reports the Volkswagen ID. Polo qualifying for £1,500, with Toyota and Skoda the latest brands to join.

6 October 2026. The KGM Torres EVX qualifies for £1,500, cutting its price from £36,995 to £35,495; details in our Torres EVX grant price report.

5 October 2026. Every Hyundai Ioniq 3 version qualifies for £3,750; orders open from £18,495 after the grant.

1 April 2026. Gov.uk updates the vehicle eligibility guidance.

3 December 2025. The MINI Countryman, Renault 4, Renault 5 and Alpine A290 move up to £3,750, doubling Band 1 from four to eight models. The government puts £1.3 billion more into the grant.

28 August 2025. Ford and DS join; the Ford Puma Gen-E and E-Tourneo Courier are the first cars to get the full £3,750.

15 August 2025. Cupra, Peugeot and Volkswagen models approved at £1,500, including the Cupra Born, Peugeot E-2008 and Volkswagen ID.3.

9 August 2025. Thirteen Nissan, Renault and Vauxhall models approved at £1,500, including the Micra, Renault 5 and Corsa Electric.

5 August 2025. Citroën becomes the first approved brand, with six models at £1,500.

16 July 2025. Grants become available, a day after the government launched the scheme with £650 million for new cars priced at or under £37,000.