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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« on: 20 May 2025, 19:19:28 »......
Looking on the bright side there is £0 road tax this year, but £195 after that.
Lucky for you that the new rules (40K+ snob tax) for EV's started for EV's registered after 1st April 2025, otherwise you'd be paying £195 + £425. :y
Quote: A new Jaguar I-PACE, registered on or after April 1, 2025, will pay a first-year road tax of £10, with a standard rate of £195 for subsequent years if the on-the-road price is below £40,000. If the on-the-road price exceeds £40,000, the first-year tax will be £435 (including the expensive car supplement), and £425 will be added annually for five years after the second tax payment.
So, when Mrs Opti replaces it with a new one a few years down the line you'll be back to £195 + £425. They are taking the piss aren't they.
They've been quite canny.
All remaining I-Pace were registered on 1st March (so they get a 25 plate) but a month before the government 'theft tax' of £425 for the next 5 years kicks in saving a total of £2125.
I'm into year 2 of paying the extra £425 on the BMW which I'm not happy about.
Also, how is it fair that an electric car will pay £195 from next year when an old duffer from Barnsley only pays £20 as his derv Grandland belches black smoke into the atmosphere.
Can't be right, can it.
It'll probably be charged using electricity generated at Drax, the giant wood burning stove, where they're busy chopping down forests in North America, Scandinavia and the Baltics to feed it.
You didn't think going green and sustainable was going to be cheap did you?![]()
Yeah....
But on the one hand the government says it wants to cut pollution, and in the next breath allows black derv smoke to block out the sun for only £20.
Your Milk Float will be much heavier though, causing more wear and tear to the roads and will emit more brake dust and rubber particulates from the tyres.

Cough up!
