Post by Lee on Oct 25, 2018 7:34:45 GMT
The government is forecast to collect £28.3 billion in fuel duty this financial year, and those who drive pure-electric vehicles will contribute nothing to that figure. So what will happen when we are all driving about in electric vehicles?
With impending bans on the sale of petrol and diesel vehicles, cities plotting access restrictions for non-electrified vehicles and the EU rapidly imposing reductions on the fleet-average CO2 figures of manufacturers for new cars sold. It is believed that by 2025 more than one in 10 car sales across Europe will be purely electric.
It has been estimated that the government could lose up to £170bn by 2030 by allowing electric cars to slip through the duty net. The government is staying very quiet, although a few options seem to be being looked into. One option being the potential introduction of road pricing.
It stands to reason that the incentives to get people to switch to electric like free parking, access to cities, charging etc will dissapear once those vehicles are the norm and we will revert to grabbing at much from the motorist as possible!
With impending bans on the sale of petrol and diesel vehicles, cities plotting access restrictions for non-electrified vehicles and the EU rapidly imposing reductions on the fleet-average CO2 figures of manufacturers for new cars sold. It is believed that by 2025 more than one in 10 car sales across Europe will be purely electric.
It has been estimated that the government could lose up to £170bn by 2030 by allowing electric cars to slip through the duty net. The government is staying very quiet, although a few options seem to be being looked into. One option being the potential introduction of road pricing.
It stands to reason that the incentives to get people to switch to electric like free parking, access to cities, charging etc will dissapear once those vehicles are the norm and we will revert to grabbing at much from the motorist as possible!
