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Electric cars owners will pay VED road tax, chancellor confirms in autumn statement

Published 17 November 2022
By Sunday Times Driving
Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt has presented his Autumn Statement and confirmed that electric car owners will pay VED from 2025.
M6 Toll motorway booth driver POV

Fuel duty cut makes road pricing 'more urgent'

The introduction of pay-per-mile road pricing or toll roads has become more urgent with the government cutting fuel duty.
Published 25 March 2022
M6 Toll motorway booth driver POV

Toll roads could be needed to plug EV road tax gap

A new form of road pricing will be needed if the government is serious about banning petrol and diesel cars, a cross-party group of MPs has said.
Published 11 October 2019