Electric Vehicles: Excise Duties
The question
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Answer of 23 April 2026 to Question 127591 on Electric Vehicles: Costs, whether the Treasury has made projections of when the proposed electric Vehicle Excise Duty pay-per-mile rates will reach parity with the equivalent per-mile rates of fuel duty for petrol and diesel vehicles.
Answered by Dan Tomlinson
The Government is committed to ensuring that driving an electric vehicle (EV) is an attractive choice for consumers. The electric vehicle Excise Duty (eVED) rate paid by electric car drivers will therefore be half the equivalent fuel duty paid by the average petrol or diesel driver, ensuring that it will still be cheaper to own and run an EV for the majority of EV drivers.
When eVED takes effect in April 2028, an average EV driving 8,000 miles per year will pay £240, or £20 a month, while an average petrol or diesel car driving the same distance will pay around £480 in fuel duty. eVED rates will increase in line with inflation each year, to ensure that the tax maintains its real-terms value.
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