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Budget: EV 3p per mile confirmed (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 month ago by manualoverride@lemmy.world to c/uk_politics@feddit.uk

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This will kill EV adoption, just to put it into perspective this is the equivalent of an average ICE car (38.6MPG) having 25.5p added per litre of fuel, in a single budget.

The even more ridiculous thing is plug in hybrids are 1.5p per mile, so people with 80+ miles of range in their Golfs etc. will pay half price, even though they are needlessly dragging around an internal combustion engine for 99% of their journeys.

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[–] HermitBee@feddit.uk 1 points 4 weeks ago

I mentioned somewhere else where I'm still irate at is they're saying electric 2 motorbikes will pay the same 3p as an EV car. That's nonsensical, my 100kg moped has no meaningful damage to the road

It's a nonsensical answer to the question "how can we ensure EV drivers are paying their fair share towards road damage?"

It's a pretty good answer to the question "how can we squeeze as much taxes out of road users as we can, without pissing off people so much that they won't vote for us" because motorcyclists make up a pretty small proportion of EV users, and it's equitable, even if it's clearly grossly unfair.

Oddly enough Reeves phrased the announcement as if it were the former, when it's clearly the latter.