Electric vehicles will no longer be exempt from vehicle excise duty from April 2025

robfosters said:
I agree with this tbh. Everyone should pay for using the roads, and let’s be honest, it’s gonna be very cheap.
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Almost everyone already does, regardless of if they own a car or not as all roads except motorways (and a small number of other roads) are maintained from Council Tax funds and not central govt.

VED has proven to be a reasonably effective tool when it comes to influencing/changing societal behaviours towards cars so while it makes sense to include EVs in overall VED, I hope it doesn't undermine the generally laudable goals of removing localised pollution from urban areas.
 
Well it was never about saving money. At some point it will be cheaper to keep an old petrol car going than a run an EV, especially if these energy prices stick. They will have to make the VED quite high on EVs to compensate for the loss in fuel duty.

They won't do retroactive changes so cars which are £0 or dirt cheap tax now won't change. Cars which are free tax will become quite sought after I bet.
 
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I'm surprised it is delayed that long - though it is fairer to bring it in with some warning so it doesn't unduly impact people who might have worked it into their figures in the short term.

Personally I'd have brought in the £165/y band as the minimum standard for everything from the start of the next financial year, but given non-ICE fuelled vehicles a say 25% discount.
 
Journey said:
We are in a mess because a few 100k cars from 36 million aren't paying VED? And of those 90% of them have been on the road less than 2 years. Pull the other one, you hate EV's just say it, rather than beating about the bush.
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Or perhaps the point he's making is we keep kicking the can down the road instead of introducing them when we have the option. In reality the system already exists to collect VED, so why wait another 3 years?
 
Journey said:
We are in a mess because a few 100k cars from 36 million aren't paying VED? And of those 90% of them have been on the road less than 2 years. Pull the other one, you hate EV's just say it, rather than beating about the bush.
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You’ve clearly got a bee in your bonnet. We’re in a mess because of our speed and inaction when dealing with such issues. Not because of EV’s - if only it was that simple :D
 
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rumple9 said:
It's the Tory plan - get people to buy ev then screw them over later on tax. They did the same with diesel vehicles 10 years ago
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If any electric car buyer thought they’d never pay RFL forever they’re very foolish. The government was never going to allow their RFL income to decline forever. Tbh I’m surprised it’s taken this long.
 
MissChief said:
If any electric car buyer thought they’d never pay RFL forever they’re very foolish. The government was never going to allow their RFL income to decline forever. Tbh I’m surprised it’s taken this long.
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Completely disagree. I bought a BMW i3 so I didn't pay any tax and I charge it at work so don't pay electricity. Looks like I'm selling it before it's too late.
 
The EV VED info :

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sovietspybob said:
still seems a pretty good deal to me at 165 quid a year rather than a pay per mile type scheme. small change compared to running the rest of the car!
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That's up to 8,800 miles of fuel! (4miles per kWh and 7.5p per kWh).

Just an observation, I'm not fussed about the change.
 
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