Back in 2004, his Tonyness emerged from an environmental summit which deemed diesel the answer to the alleged CO2 problem. Never mind babies in push chairs and kids at the school gates receiving lung fulls of carcinogenic soot and toxic gases. Gordon then raised the duty on diesel often negating the mpg cost saving for the suckers like me that had bought one. Osborne reduced road tax on low emission cars, my wife’s Fabia 1.2 tsi was just £20. Hammond scraped that – back to £140 regardless of emissions. >£40k RRP including options an extra £325 luxury road tax. Zero emission exempt. So for private buyers, £2500 grant loss balanced by EV £1625 road tax saving over 5 years. Perhaps not a great deterrent. Business drivers save many £1000 s on PHEV/EV BIK tax. Sadly, as we are road tax exempt on the scheme, we will likely feel the pain in full. Once again, the Treasury, never capable of joined up thinking, doesn’t seem to care too much about environmental benefits of encouraging ev s beyond the business users who buy the £70k cars with a healthy dollop of VAT. Not that I’m cynical! They have taken a huge hit on revenue from the 60% fuel duty and VAT on the massive drop of new car sales. They will have to find a way to tax EV use in he future. Road usage per mile tax?