Yes and once they get a load of them bought and on our roads they will definitely find some half arsed excuse to double some or other stealth tax and your fkd of course when you’ve committed to buying one of them
Anyone who bought an EV thinking that charging one wasn't quickly going to be taxed at least as much as fuel is a oppsing idiot. Just look back 30 years at what happened to diesel.
Now that's starting to happen, the day to day cost of 'fuelling' one has dramatically narrowed the price gap with petrol/diesel. Combine the profiteering massive extra cost of buying the thing in the first place with the extra inconvenience for more than occasional local use, and the maths no longer adds up for most people. And that was their main justification for buying one, with a warm fuzzy feeling as a nice bonus.
Warm fuzzy feelings are a terrible way of making complex decisions, especially when no politician is brave enough to tell the whole and unpalatable truth: we've become slaves to personal mobility because it looked affordable. That bill is now due, and it's expensive. This is the real reason for the introduction of 'stealth' taxes for driving in cities, and is why those are derided by people who can't won't believe.
Or in short we’re going to get bent over and shafted once again and with increasing frequency.
It started 70 years ago when the roads began to fill with people driving their own cars to work and play. It got worse when they decided that driving for 90minutes each way was acceptable in time, money and resources. The total costs of that were never entirely apparent, unlike now. Perhaps we should bill our parents for them? Except they paid for the overuse of coal, and their parents for horses, and before that something had to be done about the wood supply, or the lack of caves to live in.
Here's the thing... 5,500 people live in my village. Assuming that only half are of working age, there aren't 2,750 jobs within a 15 minute anything.
You only need to go 4 miles up the road and there's two villages with 10,000 people in each, so using the same assumption that's another 5,000 people to employ. So in a 4 mile radius that's conservatively about 13,000 people to employ. And that's just three villages. You don't have to go too much further to start hitting towns with population in the tens of thousands.
As long as free choice exists, then people will commute to those places either with negative unemployment or where their specific skill set has value. The alternative is that we all become slaves of the state with free food, water, housing and energy.
Unfortunately time and time again, this Marxist utopia simply doesn't work and will therefore never exist.
And even if it could, it would take so long to set up the infrastructure that it will take whole millenia to achieve, Neom being a case in point.