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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 ...