EV £195 Road Tax April 2025 - for Evs registered 2017-April 2025

SuzeQStan

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/vehicle-tax-for-electric-and-low-emissions-vehicles

So this isn’t just for new EVs - all evs registered from 2017-April 2025 - that’s pretty much all of them!

Also if your EV is RRP over 40k then there is an additional charge of £400 per annum on top the road tax for the 1st 5 years you pay road tax! 

born_again

SuzeQStan said:

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/vehicle-tax-for-electric-and-low-emissions-vehicles

So this isn’t just for new EVs - all evs registered from 2017-April 2025 - that’s pretty much all of them!

Also if your EV is RRP over 40k then there is an additional charge of £400 per annum on top the road tax for the 1st 5 years you pay road tax! 

Only for purchases after 1st April 2025... 

SuzeQStan

No it’s not - read the link

my bad I retract that - you are correct

MikeJXE

Not just EV it’s all cars 

Thats why I am keeping my 2016 Jaguar XE at £30 

SuzeQStan

@MikeJXE - I’ve got me little 2016 Yaris £35 per year RT- dunno what will happen in 2026 tho. 

bit surprised as EV uptake ain’t THAT established -  believe it’s around 4% of vehicles on UK roads. OH has a EV company car so he seems insulated at the moment - current benefit in kind circa £30 per month 1st year - goes up to £50 next year so perhaps that is accounting for the increase built in?

One of our neighbours has got a brand new  extra spendy EV - they are in their early 80s and I don’t want to make assumptions but would guess it’s not a company car as they are retired. 

& one of OH’s colleague’s missus has bought an older model EV took delivery this week
and they were completely unaware.

reminds me a smidge of about turn on diesels after many bought one to take advantage of incentives and then found themselves with depreciation beyond expectation. 

not arguing against road tax - they have to grt
the money somewhere. But the number of folk I’ve spoken to who aren’t aware of this especially for EV regs 2017 onward…couldn’t find much on the MSE forum but probably searching the wrong keywords as per usual

DrEskimo

Yea a consideration for me chopping in my 2016 EV for a 2019 EV, but not a large cost in the grand scheme of things.

As the current rate for my EV is £0, I am going to renew my VED next month so that I at least delay when I have to first pay till March 2026! 

SuzeQStan said:

bit surprised as EV uptake ain’t THAT established -  believe it’s around 4% of vehicles on UK roads. OH has a EV company car so he seems insulated at the moment - current benefit in kind circa £30 per month 1st year - goes up to £50 next year so perhaps that is accounting for the increase built in?

Makes sense that of all registered cars, EV would represent only 4% given they have only been around for a relatively short period compared to ICE, but their market share in terms of all new cars sold in 2024 was 19.6%, up 21.4% compared to 2023. 

https://media.smmt.co.uk/december-2024-new-car-registrations/

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As discussed before, you can renew your tax online in March if it expires after April, and put off paying until 1st March 2026.

I'm not sure what happens if it is due 1st April and you renew in March, whether you can choose to start it on !st of March or it will automatically start on !st April and charge you £195. If it is due on 1st April it might be safer to renew it now and put off paying until 1st Feb 2026.

I have just renewed mine (I can't stand another £195 on top of all the other February bills, so I'd rather pay in January every year- no I can't just put the money aside in January for paying in February, life doesn't work like that )

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DrEskimo said:

Yea a consideration for me chopping in my 2016 EV for a 2019 EV, but not a large cost in the grand scheme of things.

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If you swap for a new sub £40K EV after 1st April, you only lose £10 having to pay for the first year tax, rather than using the free tax you get next month.

I was thinking about a Hyundai Inster, except it isn't actually cheap if I spec. it up to what I want, so I'll stick with the Citroen a while longer.

jimjames

SuzeQStan said:

reminds me a smidge of about turn on diesels after many bought one to take advantage of incentives and then found themselves with depreciation beyond expectation. 

According to one of the papers today diesel are appreciating not depreciating at the moment

SuzeQStan

jimjames said:

SuzeQStan said:

reminds me a smidge of about turn on diesels after many bought one to take advantage of incentives and then found themselves with depreciation beyond expectation. 

According to one of the papers today diesel are appreciating not depreciating at the moment

Sure - I was referring to the time frame some years ago when govt did 180 on diesel stance. We fell foul of it having our diesel vw scirocco stolen & totaled not long after.  And the settlement we got was low compared to the previous value of the car.  

MikeJXE

jimjames said:

SuzeQStan said:

reminds me a smidge of about turn on diesels after many bought one to take advantage of incentives and then found themselves with depreciation beyond expectation. 

According to one of the papers today diesel are appreciating not depreciating at the moment

My 2016 Jaguar XE 180D has gone up if I sell to WBAC despite my milage is up too