In the budget, the Government changed the company car tax rules to eradicate fossil fuel cars. Petrol and Diesel cars will attract a large tax bill for anyone running a fossil fuelled company car
Electric company car drivers will get a better deal, essentially promoting electric cars exclusively and making it totally impossible to run a fossil fuelled company car.
But why are the Government using the company car tax rules to promote a particular type of vehicle, especially when we have been here before and it failed so spectacularly?
Yes, I remember the Diesel debacle, where the previous Labour government gave preferential tax rates to Diesel company car owners. So much so there are very few used petrol-engine cars from that era.
And we know what happened to Diesel don't we? It fell out of favour when government was tasked with improving air quality and it was found that Diesels produced high levels of Nitrous Oxide.
Government should not be social engineering our use of vehicles, because it always ends in tears.
Instead, lets the market decide. Id electric cars are so good, then they shouldn't need a subsidy, shouldn't need tax breaks and shouldn't need preferential treatment at the hands of the government.
If electric cars were cheap enough, had enough range, were economical, and were significantly cheaper to run than fossil fuel cars, we would all be using them.
But electric cars don't match the hype. The range is not even close to that advertised, charging can be expensive if you are travelling across the country on business, charging can also take longer, so who pays the employee to sit around at a charging station?
No, electric cars along with all of the Net Zero nonsense needs to stand on it's own two feet. It needs to provide cheap energy (as we were promised), it needs to provide it reliably, in quality, when it is required.
It shouldn't need government subsidies.
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