Electric Vehicle Excise Duty, or eVED, will be introduced in April 2028 alongside the current VED system, so you will pay both eVED and the applicable VED rate at the time. Full details of the scheme are yet to be announced, but what has been stated is that hybrids will pay 1.5p per mile compared to 3p per mile for EVs.

Calculating how many miles are covered on electric as opposed to petrol power would require data from the vehicle to be gathered, which could only be implemented using black-box technology, something which the government has insisted will not happen. It is more likely that the 1.5p per mile charge will be levied against total annual mileage, which would effectively mean hybrid drivers will pay more for miles travelled on petrol power than electric. There are clearly still lots of questions to be answered about how the scheme will run. And at the moment, few answers...