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Driving the sales of electric vehicles

Clean Car

In addition to burning fossil fuels, vehicles create both air pollution and congestion, particularly in urban areas. . Most notably, in April 2020 a raft of tax related changes were brought in, which made huge changes to National Insurance and Benefit in Kind treatment of EVs. For more on this see our tax blog [link].

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ITF analysis finds that societal costs for electric cars and vans range from €7K to €12K more than fossil-fueled equivalents

Green Car Congress

The ITF calculation ignores taxes on fuel (as from society’s point of view these are a transfer rather than a net cost); includes subsidies; and accounts for air pollution impacts. intractably linked to fuel efficiency improvements in petrol and diesel cars—at least to around 2020. Gains in fuel efficiency will have a.

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A just transition

Clean Car

Benjamin Franklin noted that there was nothing certain in life except death and taxes. Few people are going to drop thirty grand on a petrol driven car a couple of years before their sale is banned and their consequent resale value plummets. We all know it is coming and probably sooner than we think.

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