According to the new VED bands published on DVLA site to take into account Gordons robbery oif yesterday those vehicles with up to 100g/km are now exempt from duty and a free Licence applies.
Checking my V5C for the Landie (Defender HT)it quotes g/km as 0.065.
Can I now go out tonight and get lathered???
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I think that must refer to g/kWh, not g/km, as mine says 0.600 (Terracan)
If not then I too am looking forward to a free tax disc...
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I clicked on this thinking you'd run over that annoying mutt from the adverts.
Never mind.
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A radio phone-in (Money Box live Radio 4) today raised this zero duty factor and apparently it only applies to 2 vehicles, neither of which can be bought in UK, but which can be imported. Names were not mentioned. Presumably it would have to be something totally electric and not a Prius type hybrid. There is pollution caused by the power station that makes the electricity but the car owner who uses it doesn't pay - weird!
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A radio phone-in (Money Box live Radio 4) today raised this zero duty factor and apparently it only applies to 2 vehicles, neither of which can be bought in UK, but which can be imported. Names were not mentioned. Presumably it would have to be something totally electric and not a Prius type hybrid. There is pollution caused by the power station that makes the electricity but the car owner who uses it doesn't pay - weird!
how about a scalextric car on steroids?........ideal for "track days" :)
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No electrickery required - smart fortwo diesel comes in at 98ish g/km. If they were available in the UK I'd have one tomorrow - no road tax and 80 mpg!
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I believe it's the diesel Smart Fortwo and a version of the Honda hybrid / assisted thingymbob. Whose name escapes me at the moment. But I could be wrong.
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But the real point is that the Pretender to the Throne knows that millions of people will be fooled by the illusion....:-)
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And you can bet that as soon as such cars become more popular the tax break will magicly disappear.
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Hypothetically speaking: what if you drive a VW Touareg 5 litre V10 Tdi (or something similar, this was the biggest engine that sprung to mind), but you run it solely on 100% biodiesel. The Toerag emits 332g/km of CO2, but running on biodiesel, a very large proportion of that will be offset by the CO2 that was absorbed by the crops grown to make the fuel.
So the Toerag on biodiesel may create a nett CO2 output somewhat less than a Toyota Prius. So how do you sort the VED for that?
Looks like they will have to scrap the current VED system when renewable fuels get more popular, ie. possibly within about the next 5 years?..
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it looks like it has pedals, so nil!
JH
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