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Pay-per-mile for electric vehicles revealed: Typical EV driver faces paying more than £250 a year

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    45% ReliableAverage

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    -14% Somewhat Left

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : The new levy will cost 3p per mile for battery electric cars and 1.5p per mile for plug-in hybrids, which combine a conventional engine with a top-up battery.
52% : Edmund King, president of the AA motoring organisation, said; "The Budget has put drivers at a fork in the road with the Chancellor announcing major tax proposals for EV owners.
51% : Drivers of electric vehicles are to be hit with a new pay-per-mile tax that will cost an average of more than £250 a year.
50% : The OBR documents state: "The Government has announced changes to the taxation of and subsidies for electric vehicles (EVs).
50% : "This is roughly equivalent to half the rate of fuel duty tax paid per mile by drivers of petrol and diesel vehicles.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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