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Electric car owners need to start 'paying their way' for using the roads as petrol and diesel cars are phased out to meet green targets, MPs were told today.
Boris Johnson's government is currently mulling whether to bring in some sort of new tax that covers electric vehicles, with sales of new internal combustion engine-vehicles due to be banned from 2030.
The phasing out of petrol and diesel is expected to leave a £35billion hole in the Treasury's coffers as fuel duty take dwindles. But Boris Johnson is said to be cool on a new tax to replace it.
However MPs on the Commons' Transport Committee heard today that details were needed on plans for a successor - if there is one - that targets electric car users to avoid hitting sales of electric vehicles and creating an economic 'shock' to early adopters.
Toby Poston, director of external affairs at the British Vehicle Renting and Leasing Association (BVRLA), told the committee that a road pricing scheme was pretty much inevitable.
'We are moving towards a carbon-free road transport environment. But that is still an environment that needs to be paid for and maintained and has external societal impacts in the way that it is used. So we have to acknowledge that as more people are adopting zero-emission vehicles they should be paying their way,' he said.
Toby Poston, director of external affairs at the British Vehicle Renting and Leasing Association (BVRLA), told the committee that 'as more people are adopting zero-emission vehicles they should be paying their way'. But Steve Gooding, director of the RAC Foundation warned that setting the price too high could hit electric car sales
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