Ginny Buckley, founder of Electrifying.com and a prominent spokesperson on behalf of the electric car sector, accused the Chancellor of rattling 'fragile consumer confidence' with her Autumn Budget announcement that EV owners would be hit with a 3p per-mile tax from 2028 to fund Treasury coffers.
Since the statement in November, electric car sales - particularly among private buyers - have taken a clobbering.
Referencing a poll she conducted with the AA of 11,000 non-EV drivers earlier this year, Ginny accused ministers of 'sending mixed signals of EV running costs' to the public.
'More than half said the idea of pay-per-mile road charging would make them less likely to go electric,' she told us.
'The direction of travel is clear: drives want cheap running costs and greater energy security. Policy should reinforce that shift towards fully electric vehicles, not slow it down.'
