Electric Vehicles: Excise Duties
Commons · Question 27366 · Tabled 4 Sep 2026 · Treasury · Official record
Answered 14 Sep 2026
Question
Asked by Gregory Stafford
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment the Department has made of the potential impact of applying the same 1.5p-per-mile Electric Vehicle Excise Duty rate to all plug-in hybrid electric vehicles on drivers of those vehicles.
Answer
Answered by James Murray, 14 Sep 2026
As announced at Budget 2025, Electric Vehicle Excise Duty (eVED) will be introduced from April 2028. Electric cars will pay 3 pence per mile and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) will pay a reduced rate of 1.5 pence per mile, reflecting that PHEVs ...