Swedish Paul
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Yeah, but no adaptive suspension on the e models. Why not offer this? Apart from the 2000kg weight of the car.Wrong car, it was a 530e hybrid with the options boxes ticked
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Yeah, but no adaptive suspension on the e models. Why not offer this? Apart from the 2000kg weight of the car.Wrong car, it was a 530e hybrid with the options boxes ticked
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As ever, it’s all in the timing. Three years ago (approx), the now PM (when Chancellor) announced a tax break to encourage people to buy EV cars. It made it the obvious choice. So, lots of people did. Now that they have, he can change the rules, and tax them for doing so. Just like being given a free phone, then being charged for the minutes.Read somewhere today that the government are planing introduce Road Fund Duty (carctax) for EV’s to help plug the “Truss Gap” …….. no great surprise and it was bound to happen.
I imagine we could see a tax on EV Comany cars as well at some point.
Was always going to be the case but if you are in a three year lease then time to move onto the next pump prime incentive eurobox.As ever, it’s all in the timing. Three years ago (approx), the now PM (when Chancellor) announced a tax break to encourage people to buy EV cars. It made it the obvious choice. So, lots of people did. Now that they have, he can change the rules, and tax them for doing so. Just like being given a free phone, then being charged for the minutes.
Motoring is going to get expensive whatever car you own. Reminds me I must SORN my two summer cars later in the month.Electric cars to pay road tax from 2025
EVs have been exempt from vehicle excise duty up to now, but will be charged the standard rate from 2025www.topgear.com
I wont deny......... a grin of satisfaction across my face
Motoring is going to get expensive whatever car you own. Reminds me I must SORN my two summer cars later in the month.
Why not make it from today?....get on with it.Electric cars to pay road tax from 2025
EVs have been exempt from vehicle excise duty up to now, but will be charged the standard rate from 2025www.topgear.com
I wont deny......... a grin of satisfaction across my face
Since when has incentivising become demonising? Unless you’re a climate change denier it should be clear (if you bother to do your research) that EVs and other alternative clean fuels are the future of transport due to their lower (and this is an increasing trend going forwards) use of fossil fuels. So if the government policy is to avoid climate change they will want to implement said policy which means getting people to switch to EVs. Taxes are the tools they have for that. If you want to continue polluting at a greater level it is going to cost you, seems fair to me. You still have a choicethere no disputing that motoring is becoming more expensive but my long standing " bee in my bonnet " rage is government and the general public coersing people to buy something that they deem good for you.
Freedom of choice should not be demonized
Since when has incentivising become demonising? Unless you’re a climate change denier it should be clear (if you bother to do your research) that EVs and other alternative clean fuels are the future of transport due to their lower (and this is an increasing trend going forwards) use of fossil fuels. So if the government policy is to avoid climate change they will want to implement said policy which means getting people to switch to EVs. Taxes are the tools they have for that. If you want to continue polluting at a greater level it is going to cost you, seems fair to me. You still have a choice
Agreed. And I have no problem with having to pay car tax on my EV car, just as I do on my ICE cars. They are all just cars after all.There is a large ev crowd on here, even with paying road tax, its still a good city car solution
There is a large ev crowd on here, even with paying road tax, its still a good city car solution
Ok, explain to me how the grids gonna cope with everyone plugging in their electric vehicle when we all have one…….or how we even get anywhere near that point.
Never gonna happen.
Wake up, you’re being played.