What Twickenham Showed: Everything Electric's London Debut

The show that calls itself the world's biggest home energy and electric vehicle exhibition came to south-west London on 11 and 12 September, and for the first time it did so at a rugby ground rather than an exhibition hall. Everything Electric GREATER LONDON took over the West Car Park at Allianz Stadium, Twickenham, with doors open from 9am to 4pm on both days and general admission from £10, under-16s free.

For a market that has spent 2026 arguing about sales curves and charging arithmetic, the weekend was a useful reminder of what the argument looks like on the ground: thousands of people paying a tenner to sit in electric cars, ask installers about batteries, and listen to people argue about the grid.

A smaller show in a different setting

The change of format is the first thing to understand about this year's London event. The London edition drew 21,142 visitors across three days at ExCeL in April 2025, with three stages, a live EV arena and more than 7,000 test drives and rides. The 2026 tour went outdoors and regional instead. Harrogate in May welcomed 16,103 visitors over two days and completed more than 4,500 test drives, Cheltenham Racecourse followed in June, and Twickenham closed the UK calendar. The London stop ran with a single theatre, downsized from the two of previous years, and a smaller outdoor footprint.

That review, published across the show weekend by Green Car Guide, described steady footfall through the day and lunchtime queues long enough at the food stalls to be reassuring rather than alarming. Official attendance figures for Twickenham had not been published at the time of writing, so the honest summary is a well-attended event at a deliberately smaller scale than the ExCeL years.

What was actually on the site

The car content leaned towards the brands that are winning UK electric volume rather than the ones that used to own the London show. Green Car Guide's review records introductions to BYD, MG with its IM sub-brand, Polestar, Genesis and Xpeng, the Chinese and value-focused marques we looked at in our guide to the new arrivals. Hankook and Big Motoring World sponsored again, and the used car supermarket brought a marquee of used electric stock alongside a coffee stand, which is a quiet statement in itself: a show built around new car test drives now gives floor space to second-hand metal.

By the entrance sat the 3ti Halo FastHub, a solar-canopy charging hub with 12 22kW charge points and panels generating up to 18MWh a year, surrounded by commercial electric vehicles. Among those was Musoshi, a new Turkish entrant to the last-mile delivery market, the kind of exhibitor that used to be an afterthought beside the passenger cars.

Home energy held up half the site. Hive, Good Energy, Heat Geek and Vaillant were among the established names present, with newer entrants including Luthmore and its battery-based boiler and Eleven Energy with sodium-ion home batteries. The pairing of a car with a home battery is the economics most EV drivers end up reasoning about sooner or later, and we covered that arithmetic in our piece on home batteries for EV drivers.

The single theatre carried more than 20 sessions across the two days, with Robert Llewellyn, Helen Czerski, Dave Borlace of Just Have a Think and Paul Kirby, the Electric Van Man, among the moderators and panellists. Everything Electric's outgoing chief executive Dan Caesar reviewed cars live on the site during the weekend, and the Friday ran the dedicated business day aimed at fleet and HR teams.

The rally finished here

Friday also brought the fleet industry to Twickenham. The GREENFLEET Mythbusters EV Rally, a five-day event that puts electric cars and the public charging network through real-world conditions, crossed its finish line at the show on 11 September after a route that started in Exeter, with a separate trucks and trailers route running alongside the cars and vans. The decision to end a national driving event at a consumer show rather than a depot says something about where the industry thinks its audience now is.

The market the show sat inside

None of this happened in a vacuum. The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders reported 94,236 new cars registered in August, with battery electric models taking a 29.8% share, the highest August on record for electric and the ninth straight month of growth. Year to date the electric share stands at 25.6%, roughly 7.4 points below the 33% the zero emission vehicle mandate asks for in 2026, the gap we track in our mandate coverage.

The infrastructure backdrop is moving at a similar pace. Department for Transport figures compiled by Zapmap put the public network at 123,677 chargers across 47,810 locations at the end of August, a rise of 2,506 since 1 July, with 7,634 added during 2026 so far. A show where visitors can compare a car, a home charger and a home battery in one afternoon is a fair picture of how the buying decision has broadened.

What the weekend signals

Three things stand out from what the show presented. The first is that the powertrain argument has moved on: the stands were about price and running costs rather than whether electric cars work. The second is that used stock, commercial vehicles and home energy now carry real weight at event level, which matches where the growth in this market actually sits. The third is a question rather than a claim. The UK tour has been getting smaller and more regional while the global programme expands, with the next event in Sydney on 18 to 20 September, billed by the organisers as the largest the southern hemisphere has seen, and the 2027 UK dates not yet announced.

We previewed this event twice on the run-up, in our August look at what to expect and in the eve-of-show piece. The weekend itself answered the practical question those pieces raised. People turned up, drove the cars, and queued for the talks, in a car park in Twickenham, on a weekend when the wider market was still trying to work out how fast the rest of the decade should move.