Net Zero? EV Sales to Halt in UK After Reeves Tax

Labour said they wanted the population to transfer to EVs. Just as some of the population started buying them, Rachel Reeves is now threatening to bring in punitive taxation on electric vehicles that stands to halt sales of EVs altogether. So much for Net Zero, not only are EVs unsellable now, but the heavily invested British motor industry will be left with rotting, rusting electric vehicles on their forecourts. So much for economic growth, the idiocy of this chancellor is beyond logic or comprehension.

According to the plan, starting in 2028, drivers would pay 3p per mile for electric vehicles and 1.5p per mile for plug-in hybrids. Sales of EVs were cut in half as a result of similar initiatives introduced in Iceland and New Zealand in 2024.

The OBR said it estimated that the new EV tax was likely to reduce the number of sales expected to be made by the end of 2030-31 by 440,000 units.

Just as British drivers are slowly coming round to the idea of EVs – the car industry fears the Chancellor is about to wipe out the progress being made.

“No one will want an EV any more, it makes no sense, but this is to be expected from an incompetent chancellor and Labour government. Brits will now never drive EVs,” a former EV owner revealed.

It would be a strategic error to implement such a complicated, expensive system that targets the very cars that manufacturers are finding it difficult to sell; this would discourage customers and further reduce the industry’s capacity to meet ZEV mandate targets.

Net Zero just got fucked …

UPDATE

THE ONS TODAY (13 NOVEMBER 2025) JUST RELEASED THE STATE OF THE CAR INDUSTRY IN THE UK. THE MOTOR INDUSTRY IS ALREADY ON ITS LAST LEGS THANKS TO LABOUR’S PUNITIVE POLICIES, A HACKING EVENT, AND TO ADD A PAY-PER-MILE TAX ON EV CARS WILL KILL IT OFF FOR CERTAIN.