Upcoming driving law changes promise a shift towards electric vehicles, stricter emissions standards in Low Emission Zones and potential updates in the Spring Budget. GB News has complied a list of everything motorists can look forward to in the new year:
Electric cars
Despite delaying the ban on the sale of new petrol and diesel vehicles, the Prime Minister and the Government are keen to see the development of electric vehicles over the coming years.
This includes keeping costs down for manufacturers and drivers with a recent agreement between the U.K. and European Union to ensure tariffs are not immediately introduced which could have cost the sector more than £4 billion.
The “rules of origin” would have seen tariffs of 10% imposed on car sales between the U.K. and the EU if at least 45% of the vehicle’s value did not originate in the two areas.
With the new delay, the 10% tariff will only be introduced at the end of 2026, with both sides of the agreement praising the delay for supporting the massive manufacturing industries. …
From 2024, minimum annual targets will require 22% of new cars sold in 2024 to be zero emission, followed by 80% of new cars in 2030 and 100% in 2035. …
Low Emission Zones
Aberdeen, Dundee and Edinburgh will all see enforcement of Low Emission Zones begin at the end of May and beginning of June, while residents living inside Glasgow’s LEZ will now be included under the terms of enforcement.
Drivers could face a fine of £60 inside the LEZ if their vehicle does not meet emissions standards, with fines doubling after each subsequent breach detected, with a cap of £480 for cars and LGVs, while buses and HGVs will have a £960 cap.
Grants of up to £3,000 are available to help drivers with the switch to cleaner vehicles, including a £2,000 incentive for households who ditch their polluting vehicle at a Scottish authorised treatment facility.
The person must live within 20km of one of Scotland’s LEZs and be in receipt of “specific means-tested benefits”, with further benefits available for other people living in Scotland.
Budget
There is expected to be an update on fuel duty. The five pence cut on the cost of fuel duty will run out towards the end of March with many calling on Jeremy Hunt to extend the measures or even increase the rate of the cut beyond five pence per litre.
Further clarity may also be seen on car tax changes – which are expected to increase in April – as well as any new guidance for electric cars, MOTs and other motoring measures.
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I predict the sale of gaffer tape to obscure registration plates will go through the roof in 2024.
This requires an act of collective public disobedience.
Everyone already has a screwdriver.
This obviously runs the risk of being fined if the police spot you driving without a visible number plate. It used to be claimed, I don’t know if this is true, that putting a layer of hairspray over the number plate created enough glare to prevent cameras from identifying you but you couldn’t be fined for not having a visible plate as it looked normal.
Plod..”Is that car wearing harmony?”
You just brightened my day. Thank you!
Edinburgh LEZ largely covers the centre which is not worth driving to unless you’ve got a job refurbishing empty retail units or boarding windows.
Yes Edinburgh is a nightmare for driving in and not just the centre. But if the centre is such a nightmare then why bother with ULEZ since most will avoid it anyway. I know I do and there is nowhere to park when you get there anyway.
A few pence on excise duty with VAT on top tends to be swamped by variations in oil price. A couple of days ago, I paid 135.7 p/l, a year ago 149.7, 18 months ago 189.7, 2 years ago 140.7, 4 years back 117.7 – all E10 petrol at ASDA.
Expect various tactics to work around the requirements. E.g. what is the definition of “new”? Direct from the factory only? Or something that was new somewhere else and imported second hand after a few kilometres run on the clock?
‘Emissions’ are 98% below 1970 levels. There is no climate or emissions crisis. But they are convenient excuses to jack up all manner of taxes and ’emoluments’ for the state and its criminal actors.
Everything is now “Climatised”. When countries go to war they even take their carbon footprint into account. Or at least the daft western world does. —Climate and CO2 is the bureaucrat’s dream. It gives them total control over every aspect of our lives, something the progressive left has long craved.
Watch for the massive taxes heaped onto petrol and diesel cars and fuels as we draw closer to the 2035 deadline. These cars will be taxed to kingdom come. The poorest will be getting up an hour early to walk to the bus stop for the busses that might and might not exist and they will all be offered a bicycle for their trouble since their old car will no longer be allowed in town. So the better off will be able to afford an electric car and if they have a drive by their house then fine. But living in very narrow streets of ex council houses not so fine. But the electric car really isn’t that Green anyway. The bodies are made of steel which requires coal and iron to manufacture. The inside is full of plastic, (made with oil) Then the electric motor is made from iron steel plastic rubber and copper. There is also rare gold and silver in there. But the big problem is the huge Lithium battery. Where is all this rare Lithium and cobalt to come from for the amount of vehicles worldwide that will be required? The manufacture of one battery causes more pollution than a petrol car does in 20 years. Then if the millions of cars all have to be electric in the UK it will cost each person about 10 thousand pounds and another ten thousand in 10 years time when the first one is done. Remember these enormous batteries cannot be recycled or reconditioned. ——-ELECTRIC VEHICLES ARE NOT GREEN.
And this whole idiotic business must be stopped. I was driving yesterday on an Autobahn here in Germany, and I was struck by how few electric vehicles there were. (In Germany, EVs have an ‘E’ at the end of their licence plate.) Those I did see were generally travelling at sedate speeds. Clearly, EVs may be OK in a city, if you can get free charging overnight somewhere, but they are absolutely unsuitable for long-distance travel – even if more charging points become available, who wants to wait an hour or two for their car to ‘fill up’?
The intention behind the introduction of compulsory EVs is clearly to reduce individual mobility overall, in line with 15-minute cities and other nonsense.
Since we all exhale one hundred times the amount of CO2 that we inhale, anyone supporting ‘decarbonization’ seriously needs to minimize their breathing!
All around us NPCs, sitting in the saucepan… barely noticing the heat going up…
State directed command and control economy and social behaviour = Fascism.
Ultimately, Even the insurance companies will go out of business! Unreliable TVs, High Battery Replacement Charges & Higher Insurance costs due to Claims & Fires , will drive people away from owning cars…. This is a sinister plan
Ultimately, Even the insurance companies will go out of business! Unreliable EVs, High Battery Replacement Charges & Higher Insurance costs due to Claims & Fires , will drive people away from owning cars…. This is a sinister plan