Like it was never going to happen… 
If you know any EV owners who’ve been a bit smug over the £0.00 VED their car gets them, you might enjoy rubbing this little factoid in:
From 1 April 2025, drivers of electric and low emission cars, vans and motorcycles will need to pay vehicle tax in the same way as drivers of petrol and diesel vehicles. This change will apply to both new and existing vehicles.
Old news , do keep up known about it for ages
So, as I am a cheapskate, if I briefy SORN on feb or March then get 12 months free tax before 1st April…
At least i hope that will work!
Equalisation of unit electric prices and 20% VAT on home EV charging bills next.Lancpudn will be happy.
Here, have some brownie points 
It was news to me, and I just thought the forum could do with some more posts about , you know, transport related stuff, instead of it limping along on the strength of the “Kier Starmer is responsible for all the ills of the world” thread
Electric motorcycles 
Seriously why would you. Gonna keep running my old school v8 till it wont run no more.
To be fair if we’re all going to be forced out of our cars onto public transport and bicycles except for the Zil and Honqui using Party elite, the Starlin regime is going to be the one to do it if anyone can.
EVs obviously aren’t designed for the cash payment hand to mouth existence of the average Cortina, or even used Zodiac, owner.
It’s been good whilst it’s lasted I must admit, I’ve not paid VED for just over four years now…which is nice. 
Still cheap as chips to run on a 7kWh home charger though, I’ve got mine scheduled through the OHME charger phone app to charge to 100% every Sunday from 11:00-16:00 on half price electricity from British Gas, and they even send you a 24hr email notice when there’s an excess of green energy available to fill yer boots even more with half price leccy.
Price parity is here with the new 2025 Vauxhall Frontera, It’s the same price if it’s a mild-hybrid, BEV or ICE. Price parity is here: Stellantis SUV is the same price, EV or ICE
Just returned from Canada and I think is the latest new EV to hit the market.
Never heard of LUCID before, but I know next to nowt about EV’s
Sorry about the picture quality but it was a pop up showroom in the middle of a shopping centre.
I can honestly say I wouldn’t go back to an ICE car having gone Electric. Other than depreciation and getting involved with some environmental debate of which is better/worse environmentally I don’t see any real advantage of of owning an ICE car anymore
I own an MG5 and love it as the hot hatch drivers think it’s a slow grandad estate , it’s got a 7.2 sec 0 to 60 
Lucid are top o the range BEV’s, The chap (Peter Rawlinson) who runs the show with Saudi backing has had his hands in Jaguar, Lotus & Tesla before starting Lucid Motors, He’s a Brit & the engineering/software he’s done on the Lucid models is second to none.
I’m the same, I don’t think I’d go back to ICE either, They’re so smooth & quite & being able to charge at home is a huge plus.
Fair comment but is your charging ‘on street’ or in a garage ? There’s a hell of a lot of overnight on street parking in the UK and I don’t think on street charging is very practical (or ever will be).
Personally I think ICE vehicles are with us for many years yet.
I’ll wait for hydrogen fuel cells.
I have a double garage & driveway that I can charge the car, the main reason for buying this house 45 years ago was the space for a double garage & driveway. I agree, there will be millions who won’t have off-road charging facilities, in the next decade or so electric will be king as battery technology is moving so fast, but what comes after that, who knows.
I like the idea of hydrogen more than lithium batteries as a power source
Sodium-ion battery technology is where EV development is headed currently.
The infrastructure is there, now, for hydrogen. Put a high pressure storage tank in to petrol stations, a dispensing pump, and fill up just as you would with petrol/diesel. At my age I don’t think it will come in my lifetime but I’m convinced hydrogen is the way to go. But as Mr Lancpudn says, who knows what the future holds.
If we go with hydrogen there’s no need for fuel cell technology it works fine with ICE.
EV’s provide more scope for control and rationing of car use.
Either way affordability will be laughable when the incentives of cheap electricity are taken out.It will be 30p per kWh + the equivalent of fuel duty on EV charging prices or possibly road tolls + 20% VAT on the electric.Obviously including electric used to produce hydrogen.
