There’s no getting away from the fact that the government makes a huge amount of tax/duty revenue out of the motorist. At the moment they’re cutting breaks for electric vehicles BECAUSE there are so few of them, it doesn’t make a lot of difference, but once the numbers go up and the ICE vehicles go way down, they’re going to have to replace that money. Road tax alone I expect to go to a flat per-vehicle rate, and wouldn’t be surprised in the least if it ended up being 4 figures justified by something like “With the reduced cost of fuel, and an increase in road tax, it is still cheaper than ever to run a car” and it wouldn’t surprise me at all if they start making people get separately metered charging points so they can try to recoup the money they’re losing on fuel duty. It might even be an idea to get a charge point fitted asap even if you don’t need one just in case they do end up trying to add duty to electricity used for charging cars and require the charge points to report back on usage.
Someone, somewhere, has to balance the books and as the people seem to have reached the limit of acceptance when it comes to Austerity, they can’t do more of that so expect new ways for electric car users to have to pay through the nose like most motorists do today.
Possibly ironically, I don’t have an objection to the above – we have national infrastructure, security and the welfare system, pensions and more to pay for – the money has to come from somewhere. I’m the last person to cry about not getting something for nothing
"Man is born in freedom, but he soon becomes a slave, in cages of convention, from the cradle, to the grave."