Electric Cars – fuel duty and road tax: how to replace £35B annual revenue
There is no &quot;road tax&quot; in the UK, is it? It&#x27;s a fee for polluting, not using the road. I hate that it&#x27;s being used as an argument against cyclists: &quot;get off the road, you don&#x27;t pay road tax&quot;. This of course also ignores that most adult cyclists also own a car..<p>Norway have the same issues now. Almost all new cars are electric. You don&#x27;t pay purchase tax &#x2F; vat when buying it. Pay less on toll roads. Cheaper to use. Etc. etc.<p>Which was great to get the initial people to convert, and get the infrastructure in place. But now it&#x27;s time to tax them. Lots of budgets are now off because they estimated X amounts from cars using toll roads, but half of them don&#x27;t pay the price.<p>While they don&#x27;t emit carbon dioxide, they are just as deadly as normal cars. Also pollute more from the tires being heavier. Just as noisy. Need the same expensive roads. And as all cars they ruin the city.