EV charging in Wrexham: cars, public chargers and charging at home

Wrexham County Borough Council covers Wrexham among the towns we work in. At the end of June 2026 the DfT counted 2,339 privately kept plug-in cars licensed in Wrexham, up from 1,487 a year earlier: about 57% more in twelve months. 1,469 of them are fully battery electric and the rest plug-in hybrids.

Public chargers in Wrexham

On 1 July 2026 there were 282 public chargers across Wrexham, 46 of them rapid chargers of 50 kW or more: about 204 for every 100,000 people. By constituency, the counts around the towns we cover were:

• Wrexham: 194 public chargers (35 at 50 kW or more), against 155 on 1 January 2026

Public chargers are what make a long journey work. The charging that sets the running cost is the overnight kind, on your own drive, on a tariff with a cheap night window: our guide to Intelligent Octopus Go with a home charger explains how that works.

Who can charge at home in Wrexham

Off-street parking is the deciding factor, and the Census does not count driveways. What it does count is the kind of home: around the centres of the towns we cover here, in 2021,

• Wrexham: 82% of households in a house (27% detached, 33% semi-detached), 18% in a flat, and 76% with a car or van

A detached or semi-detached house is where a drive, and a home charger, is most likely. A flat with its own allocated space can have one too, and that is who the government grant is for.

Planning for a home charger in Wrexham

Wrexham is in Wales. In Wales the 2019 rules still apply: a wall-mounted charging outlet is permitted development if it is no bigger than 0.2 cubic metres, does not face onto and sit within 2 metres of a highway, and is not on a scheduled monument; an upstand may be up to 1.6 metres, one per parking space. England’s changes of 21 October 2026 do not apply here. A listed building needs consent whatever the rules say, and Wrexham County Borough Council decides anything that falls outside them.

The whole picture, England and Wales side by side: do you need planning permission for an EV charger?

What the charger itself has to do

Since the Electric Vehicles (Smart Charge Points) Regulations 2021, a home charger has to be smart: it comes with default charging hours set outside the weekday peaks (8 to 11 in the morning and 4 to 10 in the evening), the owner can override them, and it applies a random delay of up to ten minutes to each charge. A 22 kW charger needs a three-phase supply and most UK homes are single phase, so a home charger is normally 7 kW or so; Hypervolt publishes its Home 3 Pro at 7.4 kW single phase.

A home charger is notified to the network operator. Under the Energy Networks Association’s connect-and-notify process, where the home’s maximum demand stays at 60 amps per phase or less the charger is fitted first and notified within 28 days; above that, the operator is asked first. We send the notification for you.

Grants

There is no government grant for a charger at a house you own. The EV chargepoint grant is for people who rent, or who own and live in a flat, with private off-street parking: it pays 75% of buying and installing a socket up to a cap set by the government, until 31 March 2027, and only through an installer OZEV has authorised. Who qualifies, and what the grant pays: EV charger grants in 2026.

Charging from the roof in Wrexham

A south-facing roof in Wrexham makes about 961 kWh a year for every kWp of panels by the PVGIS model, most of it between May and July. A solar-aware charger such as the Hypervolt Home 3 Pro can put that surplus into the car instead of exporting it: charging an EV from your own solar explains how the charger and the panels share it, and Hypervolt installation across Cheshire covers the charger we fit.