How much will electric vehicle (EV) road tax be in 2025?
From 1 April 2025, drivers of electric vehicles will need to pay for VED – road tax for the first time.
For most EV drivers, this will be £195 a year, while drivers of new electric cars with a list price that exceeds £40,000 could pay as much as £620 a year.
The 2025 EV road tax changes are as follows:
- New zero-emission cars registered on or after 1 April 2025 will be liable to pay the lowest first-year rate of VED (which applies to vehicles with CO2 emissions 1 to 50g/km) currently £10 a year.
- From the second year of registration onwards, they will move to the standard rate, which will be £195 a year after 1 April 2025
- Zero emission cars first registered between 1 April 2017 and 31 March 2025 will also pay the £195 standard rate
- The Expensive Car Supplement exemption for electric vehicles will end on 1 April 2025. New zero emission cars registered on or after 1 April will therefore be liable for the Expensive Car Supplement. The Expensive Car Supplement currently applies to cars with a list price exceeding £40,000 for the first five years the standard rate is paid. This will be £425 a year from 1 April 2025, which means EV drivers with an 'expensive car' will pay £620 per year for road tax
- Zero and low emission cars first registered between 1 March 2001 and 30 March 2017 currently in Band A will move to the Band B rate, currently £20 a year
- Zero-emission vans will move to the rate for petrol and diesel light goods vehicles, currently £335 a year for most vans
- Zero-emission motorcycles and tricycles will move to the rate for the smallest engine size, currently £25 a year
- Rates for Alternative Fuel Vehicles and hybrids will also be equalised
