{"id":20937,"date":"2025-11-22T06:37:55","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T05:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/22\/will-pay-per-mile-raise-reeves-money-or-drive-people-away-from-electric-vehicles\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T06:37:55","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T05:37:55","slug":"will-pay-per-mile-raise-reeves-money-or-drive-people-away-from-electric-vehicles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/22\/will-pay-per-mile-raise-reeves-money-or-drive-people-away-from-electric-vehicles\/","title":{"rendered":"Will pay-per-mile raise Reeves money or drive people away from electric vehicles?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Need for new road taxes is clear \u2013 but there are concerns that pricing plan could stall transition away from petrol<\/p>\n<p>Three pence: a small charge per mile for an electric vehicle, but a giant conceptual leap for Britain.<\/p>\n<p>Chancellors of the exchequer have long resisted any form of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2022\/jan\/28\/will-road-pricing-answer-the-uks-net-zero-car-tax-conundrum\">road pricing<\/a> as politically toxic. That may be about to change next week: Rachel Reeves, perhaps inured to being pilloried for any money-raising proposal, is expected to introduce a charge explicitly linked to how far EVs drive.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2025\/nov\/22\/pay-per-mile-electric-vehicles-rachel-reeves-road-taxes\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/7466a0e2841428fcb4afd2b74954292a752d2abe\/1968_520_2903_2323\/master\/2903.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=4fa9142a94a61478567ef777ccc03a60\" title=\"Will pay-per-mile raise Reeves money or drive people away from electric vehicles?\" \/>Need for new road taxes is clear \u2013 but there are concerns that pricing plan could stall transition away from petrol<br \/>\nThree pence: a small charge per mile for an electric vehicle, but a giant conceptual leap for Britain.<br \/>\nChancellors of the exchequer have long resisted any form of road pricing as politically toxic. That may be about to change next week: Rachel Reeves, perhaps inured to being pilloried for any money-raising proposal, is expected to introduce a charge explicitly linked to how far EVs drive. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Need for new road taxes is clear \u2013 but there are concerns that pricing plan could stall transition away from petrol Three pence: a small charge per mile for an electric vehicle, but a giant conceptual leap for Britain. Chancellors of the exchequer have long resisted any form of road pricing as politically toxic. That &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/22\/will-pay-per-mile-raise-reeves-money-or-drive-people-away-from-electric-vehicles\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Will pay-per-mile raise Reeves money or drive people away from electric vehicles?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":20938,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20937"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}