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Drivers face an 11p per mile charge under a new car tax system being rolled out by Chancellor Rachel Reeves tomorrow. The Telegraph has been told by government sources that EV owners will be charged 3p for every mile they travel.

And this will be in addition to the £195-a-year VED rate electric car drivers now have to pay since April this year under new measures that ended EV exemption from car tax.

But for drivers without off-road parking facilities, using a public slow charger offering speeds of up to 8kW will pay 11.3p per mile, almost double that of plugging in at home.

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Dubbed by government insiders as 'VED+', for EV owners covering an average of 10,000 miles per year, their total

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