Liam Whitcombe

Liam Whitcombe

Company-Car & Fleet Tax Analyst

Liam analyses the tax and total-cost side of electric motoring for ChargeCostLab - company-car Benefit-in-Kind, salary-sacrifice mechanics and the European rules that decide what a business EV actually costs an employee. He builds his figures from HMRC guidance, government budgets and published scheme terms rather than provider marketing, and flags every assumption. He takes no payment from leasing companies or salary-sacrifice providers.

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Public & Networks23 min read

Hidden Public EV Charging Fees Beyond the Per-kWh Rate (2026): Session, Connection, Peak, Idle and Pre-Auth Holds Explained

The full 2026 breakdown of every non-energy charge on a US public EV charging receipt — session and connection fees, service fees, peak and time-of-use premiums, demand charges, membership fees, idle penalties, pre-authorization holds and roaming markups — what each is, how much it adds, and how to avoid it, on operator, NIST, RMI and J.D. Power data.

Liam WhitcombeEV Ownership & Running-Cost Analyst42 sources