Tesla owner, what do you expect? 
I must buy the magazine and read the whole article. Their reports are generally good.
Not only are battery cars extortionate to buy it seems that running them might soon cost more too.
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Its the inevitability as they lose income from not buying fuel. Just depends if they stupidily charge more than you would likely pay on fuel duty.
Khan has been installing so many cameras around me in London it can only be for pay per mile, a system that will favour the wealthy.
Another nail in the high street, may as just give everything to Bezos
Falling fuel duty will become a problem because Governments are as hooked on hydrocarbons as the most ardent petrolheads. They have been milking motorists for tax for a hundred years.
I don’t think the pay per mile will work, who will report the milage covered? Not drivers 
and not manufacturers, it’s an abuse of GRPR. I’m not going to give permission to release the milage I do every month and the EU will not force them to do so.
ANPR, there are so many cameras at mid point along roads near me, they are not for ULEZ
But coverage would need be to be universal, street by street, and it will never be. Plus, people are cloning number plates already. Imagine a freelance delivery van cloning yours for a month No, they’ll just have to pop the 25b on general taxation, where it always belonged. The misnamed (then renamed) road fund license needs to go as well 
This taxing mobility without even a high speed rail network is punitive.
It’ll be springtime in the UK for EV drivers.
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The real reason for 5G rollout so sufficient data transfer? The proliferation of cameras near me would almost be street by street you could not move without going through a camera after 1/4 mile.
High speed rail, not until its Maglev tech.
Motorists are used to paying fossil fuel prices so not be long before EV drivers are paying the same for ‘eco friendly’ fuel one way or the other.
Technology will bring the cost of EVs down (where have I heard that before?) so in the long run buying and fueling an EV will be the same as buying and fueling non EVs are now.
Saving the planet, that’s a matter of opinion.
Escalating taxes for EV owners/drivers, thats a matter of fact.
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Agree - I’m sure I’ve made the point previously that the “honeymoon” of low recharging costs for EVs will not last.
Unless you have your own solar panels. However governments have to tax in order to run services so if they go short in one point they raise it elsewhere.
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Is it!
That is entirely possible. However, if there’s to be a system to charge for distance driven then it will be lower for EVs i.e. the dirtier the vehicle the more you pay.
I can’t see cameras as a way to enforce this. You’d need to cover every road junction in the country to make it fair, & that’s a big spend (not to mention the surveillance issue).
Here’s a discussion item; how about putting an extra tax on tyres? They wear with distance travelled, & discouraging bad driving habits that increase tyre wear would be no bad thing.
And are very polluting.
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A decade of EV development is catching up fast on a century of ICE development.
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This is not a ferrari. But it is an EV so could it be the first reliable ferrari?
There’s always this Ferrari if you have deep pockets (they’ve done several now).
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Here’s a discussion item; how about putting an extra tax on tyres? They wear with distance travelled, & discouraging bad driving habits that increase tyre wear would be no bad thing.
I read a couple of years ago that tire (micro) dust is a dangerous urban pollutant and the a team of post-grads at the Royal College of Art had designed a vacuum system that could fit next to the tires and prevent the dust going into the atmosphere. Don’t know if the system is being taken up.
Incidentally, the RCA’s not just for artists, it’s packed with many of the world’s next generation top designers, . It’s a small very specialised university in Central London, that’s only post-grad and for the past few years has been the best in in the world in this category, It has continued to prosper despite he UK government withdrawing its funding twelve years ago.
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Thank goodness or I was just going to give them the brush off.
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Easel-y said than done…
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