Hybrid drivers

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Sorry if there is already a thread on this. I've searched and couldn't find one so please point me in the right direction if there is!

I'm gutted about the budget, if it goes through in 2028. My car is an old hybrid. It's great but it only gets 10 miles max now on electric. I do 15k miles a year in long journeys and will therefore be charged £225 a year.

Does anyone else think it's a bit unfair considering the fact that some EV drivers are paying pretty much the same fuel duty and everyone else? I don't have a charging point so only use the electric that's gained whilst driving which is almost nothing as the battery is so dodgy!

Am I missing something? I will be taxed 50% of someone who pays for no fuel at all despite probably 99% of my miles being petrol miles.

Tempted to sell and just get a petrol car but I'm not sure what this will do to the value now!

We have a plug-in hybrid. It can do about 36 miles on the battery, so just about all of my local driving is done that way and my visits to the petrol station are few and far between. We have a charging point at home and solar panels so on sunny days charging the battery is “free”.

The planned changes will cost us extra, which is annoying, but I can see the argument that as fewer cars use petrol, tax revenue from petrol duty will fall and that gap has to be filled somehow. I do about 7-8,000 miles a year, but pay much less tax doing those miles than someone with a petrol car.

Obviously there are many ways of raising tax to fill the gap, but this one doesn’t seem to me to be unreasonable.

It just feels unreasonable in the sense that many, many people have old phevs that do 10 miles on battery or less, so will just be being charged double tax. I wonder if they will charge as a lump sum or if you will be able to pay monthly. I don't earn very much!