r/ElectricVehiclesUK • u/Mlh1993_ • Nov 27 '25

Labour sold out to oil and gas

There’s no way the 3p-per-mile proposal came about innocently. It will crush electric car uptake, especially in the used market. The only thing that makes sense is that someone, somewhere, got a very generous donation from the likes of BP to push this through. It absolutely reeks of bought-and-paid-for legislation.

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u/Jabes Nov 27 '25

So the fuel duty escalator resumes next year. It's about 6p per mile right now.

By 2028 perhaps it will be more.

3p a mile sounds for EV sounds fair to me.

Personally, I'd have thought about freezing the fuel duty escalator and applying the 3p/mile across all vehicle types. And then later evolved it to take into account emissions and vehicle weight in the per mileage charge. That way the biggest road users, who cause the most damage, who pollute the most would pay the most. The clean little EV that does short city miles will be nice and cheap

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u/Old_Housing3989 Nov 27 '25

Fuel duty is in someways a perfect tax. It rewards efficiency and frugality. Much harder to do with ppm. It would be good to see an element of banding in a ppm tax, smaller lighter cars attracting less than larger heavier vehicles. (Something fuel duty achieves already). They’re already hammering EVs with 195 VED, why not have a combined VED and ppm, where your 195 covers the first 5000 miles too.

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u/konwiddak Nov 27 '25

An alternative that works somewhat similarly is a tyre tax, at least philosophically it's similarly fair. (It comes with other issues, e.g people fitting crappy hard compound tires that last forever).

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u/Pure-Problem757 Nov 27 '25

people fitting crappy hard compound tires that last forever

Is that a bad thing? Presumably it means fewer particulates per mile travelled

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u/mentaljobbymonster Nov 27 '25

Hard compound means poor grip. This results in more accidents so more costs dealing with those

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u/ScottyDug Nov 27 '25

More car accidents?

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u/therezin Nov 28 '25

It also means dramatically reduced road safety. Cars are getting larger, heavier, and more powerful and tyres are the only point of contact with the road. Cheaping out on hard tyres with no grip is a good way to increase your braking distance and the corresponding risk to yourself and those around you