Sadiq Khan’s Road Charges Will See Thousands Pay £4,410 Extra as Motorists Brace for Tougher Driving Rules
Sadiq Khan’s plan to scrap electric car exemptions, and raise the Congestion Charge to £18, will see some London drivers paying up to £4,410 more each year. GB News has the story.
A recent Freedom of Information request found that the increase in road charging from £15 to £18 is estimated to bring in between £415 million and £455 million for Transport for London, with electric car drivers being impacted the most.
The financial windfall will primarily come from removing the current exemption for electric vehicles and raising the daily charge by 20%.
The FOI revealed that ending the electric car exemption alone will generate between £75 million and £83 million annually.
These changes mark a significant policy shift that will particularly affect thousands of motorists who have invested in electric vehicles in the capital to help support the Government’s ambitious Zero Emission Vehicle mandate.
The mandate requires all new car sales to be electric by 2035, with at least 28% electric by the end of the year before moving to 100% in the next decade.
As more drivers switch to electric, there has been a decline in tax collections, which has prompted changes to the way road charges operate across London. …
The exemption for battery-powered and hydrogen fuel cell vehicles has been in place since October 2021, when it replaced a broader discount that previously included hybrid vehicles. It was a key incentive alongside Vehicle Excise Duty tax breaks in helping drivers give up petrol and diesel cars.
According to reports, TfL has confirmed that its Congestion Charge income is expected to rise from £240 million in the 2024/25 financial year to £320 million by 2026/27. …
Once the new rate takes effect next year, motorists who drive into Central London five days per week will face annual costs of £4,140 once the new rate takes effect, based on 46 working weeks per year.
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The poison dwarf strikes again, I bet they are glad they voted for him.
And yet Londoners did vote for him.
The loathesome little goblin. Must just be a sectarian vote; I really can’t understand women voting for the little dweeb.
Certain sections of Londoners voted for him – looney lefties and the mosque postal vote was particularly significant. The rest of us – not so much.
As you said Vote Fraud + EUophiles + White libtards + Muslims + Blacks etc. Muslims and Blacks seem able to vote many times as well.
40% voted https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-68953047
In our local area it was 34%.
Not in any great numbers so not unlike TwoTier Kier’s minority government. Were it not for the widespread anger at the socialist Tories and a weak candidate, he might have been ousted.
And so the misery and destruction is wound up.
The world is getting out of hand.
An ordinary person is now subjected to so many different protection rackets, is being fleeced by so many people in so many different ways, it’s hard to imagine it can go on much more before people just explode.
The migrant issue seems may just be the catalyst. But it comes on top of all this relentless unbearable pressure from the droves of racketeers squeezing us more and more every day.
Sadly, so very true.
£4K net of tax; spot the negotiations for salary rises to compensate for it, by those who can.
As it’s a congestion charge, and EV’s congest as much as an ICE, then clearly they were going to pay the same fee eventually. Anyone who bought an EV thinking it would free forever is an idiot, but then anyone who buys an EV is an idiot.
The policy is to force private cars off the road. All Khan is doing is applying the boiling frog principle – and raking in as much money as he can during the process.
As it’s a congestion change not a clean ai change it’s only right that EVs should also pay.
If you add millions to the population without building more roads, motorways and car parks, then you’re left with having to constrain demand for car use. EVs serve no purpose other than to make motoring more expensive, as does road charging. Yet outside of London, it is virtually impossible to live without a car – towns have been designed around car use. Governments hide behind mythical “climate change” to justify these restrictions brought about by their total failure to think ahead, plan and act.
But if Londoners keep voting him in what do they expect?
Outer londoners didn’t vote for him.
We get no benefits in South london
Sir Knife Crime dumped his fraudulent ULEZ on all the wooded and wide open spaces of the outer London Boroughs.
Secede.
Well you will get no tears from me on behalf of the battery car drivers who have had it soft for too long but a 20% hike seems rather above inflation unless you drive a tube train or are a junior doctor. When I worked at the City of London we had an office discussion about when did you last drive in London. The manager lives out in Kent and I am in Surrey. I could not honestly remember the last time and with no complient vehicles I have only been just inside the ULEZ either where the camera has gone or by applying some tape. In my youth I was regularly driving in with mates for gigs at the Marquee Club – gone – the Astoria on Charing Cross Road – bulldozed for Cross Rail – Hammersmith Odean and even up to Wembley Arena. Don’t even consider it these days and if there is an option will go to Brighton or even Portsmouth although they have a ULEZ now.
Don’t be silly, you get all the hugely subsidised commuter trains. With this who would drive in London?
That Congestion charge sign: The white C in a red background and the words ‘Have you paid?’.
Tax on the money earned.
Tax on the purchase of the car.
Tax on the annual re-registration of the car.
Tax on the fuel to run the car.
Tax on the tax on the fuel to run the car.
And then Khan wants you to pay a tax for driving into his city.
How many times have you paid?