Hard-to-detect tech is used illegally on UK roads – prompting fears about its use with incoming eVED The government’s pay-per-mile scheme for electric cars and plug-in hybrid vehicles, which is due to start in two years’ time, faces a major threat from devices called mileage blockers that are easy to buy and to fit and freeze a car’s odometer, an investigation by Autocar has found. Pay-per-mile charging, officially called eVED, is scheduled to start in April 2028 as an extra tax placed on EVs and PHEVS to recover income lost from fuel duty, given these cars can run fully or partially on electricity. The tax will start at a rate of…
Two years until EV pay-per-mile tax – but mileage blockers threaten scheme
