EV·Echo Price Watch
An independent check of the price a driver pays to charge with nothing but a bank card. We read each network's published walk-up rate every day, cross-check it against the operator's own open data, compare the networks we can read, and hold any change until it is confirmed. What comes out is a dated verdict we put our name to — verified and re-checked, never guessed. Ireland has its own register at evecho.ie/price-watch/ireland.
EV·Echo Price Watch, verified 2 October 2026: Arnold Clark Charge has the lowest walk-up rapid charging price of the 7 GB networks compared, 55p/kWh, 4p below the next, MFG EV Power at 59p/kWh.
On 2 October 2026 EV·Echo Price Watch compared the walk-up price of 7 GB rapid charging networks: Arnold Clark Charge, InstaVolt, MFG EV Power, IONITY, Pod Point, Osprey, bp pulse.
Best Price · 55p/kWh · lowest among 7 verified GB rapid networks · verified 2 Oct 2026
4p below the next-cheapest verified network, MFG EV Power at 59p/kWh.
Under watch since 14 Sep 2026. 1 consecutive verified day at the top, of 30 needed for 30-day Price Leader 2026. Full pricing, including memberships →
Figures are taken from each operator's own published prices and, where one exists, its open-data tariff feed. The dated comparison and its sources are kept for every verdict; they are provided to the operator carrying the badge and are available on request.
Comparison run 2 Oct 2026 at 12:21 UTC across 7 verified GB rapid networks. Method version 2026-10-01. Eligible networks: GB public charging networks operating 50 or more rapid (50 kW+) charge points that publish a walk-up (no-membership) price. Networks with no walk-up rate (app-only) are listed as ineligible. Basis: The ad-hoc price available without membership or subscription, paid by contactless card, in pence per kWh including VAT with any connection fee included, at rapid chargers (50 kW+). Where an operator publishes time bands, the rate charged at 12:00 local time is used. Memberships, subscriptions, idle fees and pre-authorisation holds are outside the comparison. The Public Charge Point Regulations 2023 price and tariff data are the evidence base; this basis is EV·Echo's comparison method built on it. A network has a headline rate only when at least 75% of its rapid connectors and 75% of its rapid sites share one price. A human-read price stands for 14 days before it must be re-checked. Badges update within 60 minutes of a verdict change.
An operator with a verdict can show it on their own site. The badge is an image we serve: it carries the date of the last check and updates itself. Every state it shows is factual and non-comparative unless the evidence supports a comparative claim; the full market position stays here, on the register. It carries a “Check it yourself” link back to this page. It does not ask anyone to install anything.
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</a>Seen a wrong price? Tell us through the contact page with the network, the site and what you were charged. A report opens a hold on that network's verdict until a person has checked it.
Operators: dispute a verdict within 14 days of it appearing, by the same route. You will get a written answer from the person responsible for the register, and disputes and their outcomes are logged. When the comparison method changes, the change is dated and announced here, and earlier verdicts keep the version they were made under.
The badge is free and cannot be bought. What we do sell is the verification report: a monthly, dated statement of where an operator's walk-up rate stands against the networks around it, written to be printed — on a forecourt, in a tender, in a council's choice of operator.
The same prices sit on every charger card in the EV·Echo app, next to whether the bay is free. The price before you go, the bay when you arrive.
