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Three Days Until Twickenham: What to See at Everything Electric
The UK's biggest home energy and electric vehicle show opens at Allianz Stadium on Friday. What is on, who it is for, and how to get value from a day there.
On Friday morning, the car park of a rugby stadium in south-west London becomes the most concentrated display of electrified transport and home energy technology in the country. Everything Electric Greater London runs Friday and Saturday, 11 and 12 September, at Allianz Stadium Twickenham, and whatever your position on the switch to electric, from fully converted to openly sceptical, there is something specific in it for you. With the doors three days away, here is how the show fits together and how to work it.
What is actually there
The show's centre of gravity is the world's largest electric vehicle test drive experience, with dozens of the latest models available to drive on public roads around the stadium, something no dealership can offer in a single visit. For anyone whose entire experience of electric cars is a test seat at a motorway services charger, a morning of back-to-back drives in contrasting cars, a city EV, a family SUV, a performance saloon, does more to settle the which-car question than a year of reading.
Alongside the cars sit three other worlds. The home energy zone covers solar, battery storage and heat pumps with working demonstrations and advice stands, which matters because for most households the economics of an electric car and the economics of a home battery are now the same conversation; we looked at that pairing in our home battery piece. The Electric Theatre runs sessions across both days with the presenters and analysts who shape the debate. And the micro-mobility track, with e-bikes and scooters you can actually ride, covers the part of the transition that never gets reviewed on car channels.
The home energy half
It is worth dwelling on the half of the show that car coverage usually skips, because it is half the floor space and arguably half the savings on offer. The home energy zone brings together solar panels, battery storage and heat pumps with live demonstrations rather than brochure stands, and staff who will, if you bring your actual annual consumption figures, talk about your house rather than a hypothetical one. The Electric Theatre supplements this with more than twenty scheduled sessions across the two days, spanning EVs, clean energy and the practical questions of running a home on electricity.
For an EV household the crossover is direct. A home battery charges from cheap overnight electricity or from the sun on the roof, then feeds the car and the house, which is the mechanism we examined in our home battery guide. Seeing the hardware, asking the install questions and getting a realistic quote range in a single afternoon is the part of the event with the most direct effect on a household budget, and it is the part that the big motor shows have never attempted.
Planning your day
Friday is the busier professional day, with a B2B track running alongside the consumer show, and the queues for test drives are shorter in the morning. Saturday is the family day, fuller and louder, with the weekend crowd that makes the show feel like what it is, a consumer event about a technology going mainstream. Tickets run around £10, which for the test drive access alone is the cheapest electric car education available anywhere in Britain.
Practical advice from previous editions of the show: do the test drives first, before the queues build; take your domestic electricity bills if you want the home energy stands to run real numbers rather than generic ones; and talk to the smaller exhibitors as well as the big brands, because the charging hardware, tariff and installation companies are where the practical answers to your actual living situation sit.
Getting there is straightforward: the stadium sits on Twickenham's edge a short walk from the mainline station, with parking on site for anyone driving, and the show runs from morning into late afternoon on both days. The organisers recommend booking ahead rather than paying on the gate, and the micro-mobility track and Electric Theatre sessions both fill up as the day goes on, so decide early which of the scheduled talks you want and plan the floor around them rather than the other way round.
Why this show matters this year
The timing could hardly be sharper. The 76 plate arrived this week with the market running at its longest growth streak since 2019, the Electric Car Grant list keeps expanding ahead of the autumn order books, and the public charging network passed 121,000 chargers this summer. Shows like this are where the industry meets the buyers it has been courting with those numbers, and the exhibitor list is itself a signal: the depth of manufacturer participation tells you how seriously the market takes the consumer switch, and the presence of the home energy sector in equal force tells you where the next phase of the transition is being sold.
We will be at the show, and the honest report will follow: what is worth your time, what the test drives actually reveal, and which of the promises on the stands survive contact with a journalist carrying a notebook and an electricity bill.