Sooner or later it is going to dawn on the drivers of electric cars that they have been benefitting from a huge introductory free offer. As EVs become more commonplace, that offer is going to come to an end, and the economics of running these cars is going to look very different.

Not even the government’s green zealotry, it seems, is going to stop the Chancellor imposing a new charge of three pence per mile on electric cars – presumably charged via an annual read of the car’s odometer when it has its MOT (although it is less clear how the government will collect the money in a vehicle’s first three years of existence, when it doesn’t need to be tested).

An annual charge of three pence per mile is just the beginning

For years, EVs attracted no road tax. That changed in April this year wh

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