Ask a fleet manager what still makes fuel admin a mission in 2026, and many will raise the question: how much do you actually owe a driver who charged the company EV on their own driveway overnight? Right Fuel Card, a business fuel card and EV charging provider used by more than 25,000 UK firms, reckons it has that answer, which is reason enough to look at it.
Plenty of local businesses are seeing this exact problem in their fleet operations, running a couple of electric vans alongside an ageing diesel fleet and half-hoping the reimbursement maths roughly works out. Let’s look at Right Fuel Card; who they are and why it solves the problem.
Why Home Charging Became The Real Headache
Reimbursing a driver for petrol was hardly complicated. They filled up, kept the receipt, and you paid it back. Maybe a little labour-intensive, but easy. Home EV charging changed the game. The cost of a charge now depends on the driver’s energy tariff, the time of day, and how much of that electricity actually went into a work vehicle rather than the family’s second car. Pay a flat pence-per-mile rate, and you either short-change the driver or overpay them.
This is the gap Right Fuel Card is aiming at. The market is crowded, and the headline pitches all blur together, so a provider that fixes this pain point stands out more than one only featuring savings or software.
One Account For Fuel And Charging
Strip away the branding and the core solution is consolidation. Diesel, petrol and every charging session land on a single HMRC-approved invoice that is settled automatically by Direct Debit. For a firm where someone still staples receipts into a spreadsheet each month, that is the sort of efficiency win that pays for itself in reclaimed time.
The fuel saving deserves a clear-eyed look, because this is where fuel card marketing usually oversells. Right Fuel Card prices against the national average pump price rather than promising a set discount at every forecourt, so the figure you see depends on the card you hold and where your drivers fill up. The saving is real, then, but it moves around, and it is worth sense-checking against your own routes rather than treating it as fixed. Coverage is another key claim: the network reaches roughly 98% of UK fuel stations, which counts for a lot if your drivers roam rather than return to one depot each night.
How Rightcharge Handles The Reimbursement
The charging side is branded Rightcharge, and it is the part that genuinely separates this offer from the pack. You can read the full spec on the Right Fuel Card site, but the mechanism is worth understanding, because the detail is the whole point.
Instead of estimating, Rightcharge links to the driver’s vehicle, home charger and energy tariff, then measures the mileage, the kWh drawn and the real cost of each charge. It sends the exact reimbursement straight to the driver’s energy supplier, so nobody is left out of pocket and the business is not overpaying either. Session-level checks tie each charge to an authorised vehicle, so a household’s other car cannot be topped up on the company account, and the system is built to handle homes running more than one EV. Public charging comes in too, through what the company calls the UK’s largest public network, taking in rapid and ultra-fast points. A dashboard ties it together with cost, energy-use and carbon figures across the fleet, the sort of thing your finance lead and your net-zero report will both be grateful for.
Who It’s Really For
This is a service for businesses, not private motorists, and the card range makes that clear, with options for sole traders, small firms, larger fleets, HGV operators, taxi companies and driving instructors. The natural fit is a business caught mid-transition, running some combustion vehicles alongside new EVs and those tired of managing two separate reimbursement systems. A firm with no EV plans still gets the fuel card and the admin savings, while one going fully electric leans hardest on the home charging tools. The clear mismatch is the individual charging a personal car, because everything here is built around company vehicles and fleet-level reporting.
Pros And Cons
Where It Delivers
- Fuel and EV charging arrive on one HMRC-approved invoice paid by Direct Debit, which reduces manual expense claims to almost nothing.
- Home charging reimbursement is worked out at the driver’s real household tariff and paid to their energy supplier, with fraud checks confining it to authorised vehicles.
- Coverage is broad, taking in around 98% of UK fuel stations plus a large public charging network with rapid and ultra-fast chargers.
- The dashboard gives cost, energy-source and carbon visibility across the fleet, which serves budgeting and sustainability reporting at the same time.
Points To Weigh
- There is no published online rate card. You apply and speak to the team for terms suited to your fleet, so an instant self-serve quote is not on offer.
- The fuel saving shifts with the product and forecourt rather than being a flat discount, so it is worth testing against your own mileage before you commit.
- Home reimbursement depends on connecting each driver’s vehicle, charger and tariff, so there is a short onboarding step before the automation runs itself.
The Fuel Card Verdict For 2026
Most fuel card providers can put a card in a driver’s hand. Far fewer have built an accurate, fraud-protected way to reimburse home charging and drop it onto the same bill as diesel and public charging, and that is exactly the job that trips up businesses as they transition to an electric fleet. For any business running a mixed or transitioning fleet, that is the reason to look into Right Fuel Card as a potential fuel card partner. The lack of instant online pricing is a mild inconvenience rather than a real fault, and the pay-off is terms shaped around your fleet. On the strength of their EV charging proposition on top of all their other competitive offerings, it belongs among the leading choices in the UK fuel and charging card market.
