Electric Vehicles: Excise Duties
Commons · Question 27368 · Tabled 4 Sep 2026 · Treasury · Official record
Answered 14 Sep 2026
Question
Asked by Gregory Stafford
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether HM Treasury has made an assessment of the potential merits of a voluntary telematics-based system to determine the proportion of mileage undertaken using electric power by plug-in hybrid electric vehicles fo
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 ...