bp pulse Now Earns You Avios: Up to 4 Avios per £1 on EV Charging

If you drive an electric car in the UK, your everyday charging just became a (small) Avios opportunity. As of today, 17 June 2026, bp pulse has partnered with IAG Loyalty - the team behind Avios - to let members of The British Airways Club collect up to 4 Avios per £1 when charging their EVs. It is, as far as I can tell, the first EV charging network in the UK to offer Avios, and it sits neatly alongside the existing BPme Rewards conversion option that bp already had.

Let's get into the detail, work out what it's actually worth, and figure out whether it should change anything about how you charge.

The earn rates depend entirely on how you pay for your charge:

So the app (or a subscription) is the sweet spot at 4 Avios per £1, double what you'd get tapping contactless. The deal is live now across bp pulse's roughly 3,000 rapid and ultra-fast charging points in the UK.

Crucially, this stacks on top of whatever your payment card earns. So if you're paying with a points-earning card, you're double-dipping - Avios from bp pulse and rewards from your card. More on that below, because that's where this gets mildly interesting.

It's the same pre-registration model bp pulse uses for its other Avios links, and it's refreshingly low-effort:

One thing worth flagging from the small print: it can take up to 7 days for the Avios to land in your account, so don't panic if they don't show up instantly. UK and Ireland-issued Visa, Mastercard/Maestro and Amex cards can all be linked. PayPal, YoYo Wallet and store cards are not eligible.

And a few sensible exclusions: Avios are not awarded on bp pulse hardware (including home chargers), fleet account payments, gift cards, or refunded transactions. There's also a long list of specific sites where the offer doesn't apply for Visa and Mastercard - if you charge at one particular location a lot, it's worth a quick check on the avios.com bp pulse page before you assume you're earning.

Let's be honest about the maths, because this is where everyday-earning partnerships can either quietly add up or feel like rounding errors.

Public rapid charging in the UK is not cheap - rates frequently sit somewhere around 70-85p per kWh on ultra-fast networks. Say you put 50 kWh into the car at 80p/kWh, that's a £40 charge. At 4 Avios per £1 via the app, you'd collect 160 Avios for that session. Tap contactless instead and it's 80 Avios.

To put that in context using live Avios redemption pricing: a one-way off-peak Reward Flight to Amsterdam currently starts at around 10,000 Avios in Economy, and Athens around 15,000. So a single £40 charge session nudges you a touch over 1.5% of the way to a short-haul European hop. It's not life-changing, but it's also free Avios for spending you were going to do anyway - and that's the right way to think about these partnerships.

Where it becomes genuinely worthwhile is frequency and stacking. If you're a regular public charger - no home charging, or lots of long-distance driving - and you route those charges through a points-earning card, the combined earn adds up faster than you'd expect over a year. If you want to model what those Avios could turn into, our how many Avios for a flight tool and the Award Travel Finder are both good places to start.

This is the bit points collectors will care about. Because the bp pulse Avios are awarded separately from your card rewards, your payment card choice still matters. A few UK options that pair nicely:

If you're not sure which card earns you the most Avios day to day, our regularly updated guides to the best Avios-earning credit cards in the UK and the best business credit cards are worth a read before you decide.

I'll be upfront: I don't drive an EV, so this one isn't going to move my own balance. But I think the strategic story here is more interesting than the earn rate.

IAG Loyalty has been very deliberately pushing Avios into the everyday - Nectar, Uber, BPme Rewards, and now EV charging. Rob McDonald at IAG Loyalty framed it as wanting collecting Avios to be "part of everyday life", and bp being a logical partner as more members switch to electric. That's exactly the direction of travel, and it's a smart land-grab: being the first EV charging network to offer Avios means bp pulse gets the loyalty halo before anyone else does.

The honest caveat is cost. If you can charge at home on a cheap overnight tariff, you'll pay a fraction of public rapid-charging prices, and no amount of Avios makes up that gap. Chasing 4 Avios per £1 at 80p/kWh when you could be paying 7-10p/kWh at home would be the textbook example of letting the points tail wag the dog. So this is really a deal for people who already rely on public charging - for them, it's found money on unavoidable spend.

For everyone else, it's a nice-to-have: register your card once, forget about it, and let the occasional motorway top-up quietly drip Avios into your account. That's the sweet spot for everyday partnerships - zero ongoing effort, no behaviour change required.

One last thought: this complements rather than replaces the older BPme Rewards to Avios conversion (25 Avios per 40 BPme points), so bp now lets you collect Avios on fuel, convenience spend and EV charging. If you're a bp regular across the board, the cumulative effect is starting to look quite tidy.

A genuinely useful, no-downside addition if you charge in public regularly: link a card, pay through the bp pulse app for the full 4 Avios per £1, and pair it with a points-earning card to double-dip. Just don't let it tempt you away from cheaper home charging if you have it. As ever with these everyday earners - take the free Avios, but don't reorganise your life around them.

Safe travels (and happy charging),
Jack