MGS6 Information & Reviews

[tsedge]

I to have just read the document and it makes no sense to me at all, surely an up front payments for mileage not yet driven can’t possibly be the right as it come down to guess work unless like Miles has said they credit you for mileage you have not completed.

I agree.

So would it not be easier just to pay for what you have driven this could get very complicated for leasing companies and the DVLA who I assume will be collecting the payments.

Yes, it would be simpler. I suppose they want to guarantee their (our) money rather than pursue people for it. But pay for what you've used at least once a year (more often if you want), would be a whole lot better.

A better method would be to submit a photograph of your mileage along with your road tax application, or is the next addition to all vehicles will be something on the lines of a Smart meter.
God help us.
Les

Good idea. It is a consultation, so you can submit your views and reasoning.

 

[Les burrows]

Thanks for you comments Tom at #61, as for it being a consultation what ever we the public suggest or put forward won’t even get looked at let alone considered i feel.

I know lots of ICE owners will be laughing at us lot who own EVs but they have fuel duty rises coming to them in 2026 so they have not got away Scot free so to speak

To me personally 3p per mile will probably mean something like 2-3 hundred pounds per year to others much more, but I take some comfort from the many benefits I have from being a EV owner/driver, what I mean by that is,
1. by having access to smart electricity tariffs which don’t only power my vehicles but also many appliances in my home on a much cheaper tariff, I don’t think any tariffs come anywhere near the tariffs that are available by owning an BEV but of course i do mean if you can charge at home.

2. The fact I don’t stand around in the weather anymore filling up my vehicle with fossil fuels and the fact I do consider I’m doing what little I can do to help our planet not so much saving it but by improving air quality on it for all of us to breathe.
So there are still many benefits and good reasons to drive a BEV in my humble opinion.

From anyone looking to purchase a new vehicle the increase from £40-50,000 for the expensive or luxury car tax as blown the choices wide open I just hope Manufactures & dealers won’t take the opportunity to hike prices.

These mileage charges have been rumoured for years but now are to be introduced on vehicles which unbelievably the governments for quite a few years now have been doing the best to persuade people to buy and drive EVs, but I think they have not help encourage that today and in the last buget also with the introduction of the RFL.
But I hope this is a step in the direction of scrapping all road taxes by introducing mileage charges on every vehicle on our roads and with no RFL.which would be a much fairer system in my opinion.
Les.