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Certain drivers face having to pay 14p per mile under a new Rachel Reeves car tax plan from Wednesday. Labour Party Chancellor Ms Reeves is poised to announce pay-per-mile road pricing for EVs in this month's Autumn Budget Statement.

But ahead of the new rate, which is supposed to be 3p per mile, EV owners without driveways who use 'fast' chargers (9kW to 49kW) are already paying more.

For these motorists and road users, the average cost per mile increases to 13.79p. That's more than it currently costs to run a petrol (11.82p per mile) or diesel car (10.18p), experts say.

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Edmund King, AA president, said the introduction of pay-per-mile taxation for EVs could become a 'poll tax' on ele

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