The Sting In The Tail For Owners Of Electric Cars?

[youngmafbog]

No surprise, pretty sure I wrote this on AB years ago.

It may well be the end of Rishi's popularity though and his downfall if they put it on all cars, including those already paying a 'tax; to use the road,

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8951969/Rishi-Sunak-considers-plan-charge-motorists-mile-drive-Britains-roads.html

[Old_Geezer]

If he's considering it, that's bad enough. One trusts he'll have enough sense to at least reject it. It would permanently label him the bad guy if he switched to that obnoxious system. We didn't need to drop that far before some twit decided to tax cars differently depending on whether they were more or less "green". They can re-look at that to start with. Besides drivers are already cash cows paying more than the roads cost to maintain. They deserve freedom from being picked on. Far too much tax on fuel as it is.

[barry1010]

All that means is that a report has been submitted to Rishi and he has to 'consider' it.

[ToraToraTora]

It's inevitable that moving to lecky will leave a hole in the finances. At some point there will need to be something to replace lost fuel duty. National road pricing has been looked at before, I won't be surprised of it does become a reality.

[bhg481]

I wonder how they would implement it. Sensors on all roads/sensors on main roads/sensors on motorways/annual odometer reading and get a bill for several hundred pounds?

[woofgang]

Wasn't this being considered before instead of road tax not as well as?

[bobbinwales]

The easyest way would be to put more tax on petrol / diesel at the pump as more mile's means more fuel used.

[Old_Geezer]

it would, but if petrol & diesel are on the way out.

[bhg481]

The difficulty is catching the electric car users; perhaps a charge to use public chargers and a special electricity rate for high usage would be a possible solution.

[barry1010]

Yes, it was, Labour was very keen on it, woofgang.

But I'm not going to worry about it - a report to be considered is one of many, most of which will not get a second glance from Risi

[bobbinwales]

A just seen its about electric cars tho so no fuel. So it wont effect most of us for years and Rishi wont be around as Chanceller either by then. Am sure he gets sent loads of plans like this as does any chanceller

[barry1010]

Hundreds every week, bobbinwales.

[barry1010]

So many Brits are happy to pay to use toll roads abroad. That is one advantage to pay per mile - those pesky forruners would have to pay, too

[ToraToraTora]

bhg: "The difficulty is catching the electric car users; perhaps a charge to use public chargers and a special electricity rate for high usage would be a possible solution. " - road pricing would be for all vehicles cars, probably VED would be abolished.

[barry1010]

Be a kick in the teeth for disabled people who gets VED exemption.

[bhg481]

TTT - back to my question at 8:53 then.

[ToraToraTora]

bob: "A just seen its about electric cars tho so no fuel. So it wont effect most of us for years" - if it did come in it would be for all vehicles. Possibly enforced by some sort of compulsory transponder so we'd get a bill each month

[bobbinwales]

That would be easy to solve but maybe we'er all getting ahead of ourselfs on this?? Its years away or maybe never

[ToraToraTora]

BHG the cheapest most accurate way would to force owners to fit some sort of tracking/transponder device to every car, a bit like the insurance companies do with young drivers. It's be an offence to not have it, it's be part of MOT etc.

[barry1010]

If every vehicle had a 'black box' the government and its agencies would easily be able to track movements as well as mileage.

[ToraToraTora]

bob, years away? yes but also inevitable, as we are pushed over to electric cars the fuel duty collected will erode and the government will have to look at ways of replacing it. I think road pricing is the fairest way.