Electric car road tax guide – how much will you have to pay in 2025?
Electric vehicles (EVs) currently enjoy free road tax (also called Vehicle Excise Duty). However, from 1 April 2025, drivers of electric cars in the UK will need to pay for road tax for the first time.
The new 2025 VED rules will impact hundreds of thousands of EV owners and their electric vehicle running costs. As well as paying for road tax for the first time, there will also be an expensive car tax supplement for electric cars with a list price that exceeds £40,000.
Many of the road tax changes will be backdated, which means drivers who have never paid for VED before will be required to do so after 1 April 2025.
To help you understand the 2025 electric vehicle road tax changes, we’ve put together this guide to set out what VED costs EV owners can expect right now – and how much they will pay when the tax rules change for electric car drivers in 2025. Read more
