Sorry folks, but am I missing something here ??.
CURRENTLY, we pay duty on our cars, on the level of CO/2 that it omits from its exhaust.
As pure EV's are still ZERO emission, unless they completely revise this system and move away from an emission based standard, how do you apply a fee to electric cars ???.
As we all know, the government have ( on many occasions ) realigned the permitted co/2 levels and tax banded cars to raise more funds, for identical cars still being produced with the same CO/2 output.
Case in point, I owned a WV PHEV back in 2015 and the duty was zero, 18 months latter they revised the omission level and charged new owners for duty.
Same power unit, same emission figures etc, but now due to the band switching, they pay duty.
My wife has a Fiat 500 ICE and we pay £20 duty for 12 months.
Fiat are STILL producing the same car with the same power plant and the same emission figures.
Duty is now about £135.00 - How does that work ????.
They make the rules then break them, in order to take in more money.
No change there then !.