Smug expressions were wiped from the faces of countless EV drivers this week. From Christmas Day next year, battery-powered vehicles will no longer be exempt from London’s £15 per day Congestion Charge. Whinges about the unfairness of the London Mayor’s decision came from many directions, but anyone who didn’t see this coming has more subsidies than sense.
EV propagandist and former Top Gear presenter Quentin Wilson took to X to express his disappointment. “So, TfL makes all that fuss about air quality in outer London with Ulez and then will cancel the U.K.’s most successful urban clean air improvement policy,” he complained, “Let’s have queues of clean cars and vans rather than polluting ones.” AA spokesman Jack Cousens told the Telegraph that the policy is “a turkey bone in the throat of EV owners who heeded his call to switch to green vehicles and improve air quality in the capital”.
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