Baby Driver
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From April 2025 the Chancellor has announced that Electric cars owners will need to pay!
No amount announced as yet!
Thoughts????
No amount announced as yet!
Thoughts????

For me, its more a case of "the straw that broke etc...." cost of electricity shooting up....mg4's faults....and now ved..... "Enough, no more. 'Tis not so sweet now as it was before"Until it happens I won't be worrying about it and if I have to pay £165 for VED then so be it. It's what I'm paying at the moment anyway and whose to say the VED for other cars won't be increased even before 2025.
If £165 p/a was make or brake on whether or not I could afford to run an EV like the MG4 then perhaps I shouldn't be changing my car in the first place.
Total shambles !.
If they intended to apply VED to electric cars FROM 2025 then that would be bad enough in itself !.
But I am still really struggling to get my head around, how they have a system of grading the cost of your VED against, set against the volume of co/2 emissions that your car produces, which I do agree with.
Then suddenly announce a “ball park” figure of £165.00 to totally ZERO emission BEV’s that will have a higher VED cost over some ICE cars and even some PHEV’s !.
You either replace the whole emission rating scheme with something else, or I feel another “back track” statement on the crazy application on its way !.
You just CAN’T apply an increase in VED to zero emission cars and STILL have a rating system in place that is based purely on co/2 emissions !.
It’s a completely in direct conflict of how we currently set the VED rates in the U.K.
As it's tax bracket was made when the so-called 'dirty diesel' came under the banner of 'dash for diesel'.How is a dirty diesel cheaper to keep than an EV…? Madness.
And I'm more than pleased that you're on a higher spiritual plane than the rest of us.As it's tax bracket was made when the so-called 'dirty diesel' came under the banner of 'dash for diesel'.
And it isn't cheaper to keep than an EV; the EV is currently £0. New diesels aren't £0 or £30, and nor will electric cars be.
I'm more than pleased they are charging VED on EVs. Why should the users drive scott free on UK roads.
Thank you for being the only person ever on planet earth to have said thatAnd I'm more than pleased that you're on a higher spiritual plane than the rest of us.
I was not ware of this thanks ?.As has been mentioned before the "whole emission rating scheme" was actually replaced with something else in 2017. It's not in conflict with how VED rates are currently set.
I was not ware of this thanks ?.
And yet ICE cars need to satisfy an exhaust emission test before achieving a MOT pass to then renew there VED ?.
No worries. No need to start going down the oh so familiar road of personal remarks simply because someone don't agree with youYou're still waiting on it being sincere, though.
It would almost be entertaining reading the comments if it were't so sad and infuriating that so many people have swallowed hook, line and sinker the same outdated rubbish and F.U.D that's been circulating for many years and has proven to be utter nonsenseThis is post budget BBC article:
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Electric car drivers must pay tax from 2025
Motoring groups, including the AA, warned the move would reduce the incentive to switch to electric vehicles.www.bbc.co.uk
The comments below quickly turn into a sarcastic opinionated cesspool (as internet comments usually do), with lots of non EV lovers saying that EV cars should actually pay more tax than petrol cars, as EVs are heavier and wear the roads more!