It Was All A Scam! Charging Electric Cars Now Costs More Than Gas

 Recharging electric cars is now more expensive than filling your tank with gas, according to an official report.

On the contrary, those who drive electric vehicles are paying more out of pocket to keep their cars running and they are also worse for the environment than petrol cars.

The VW ID 3 costs around 8p more per mile, with a cost of £49.30 for it to be fully recharged at a Shell ultra-fast point.

To make matters worse, research by the consumer group Which? earlier this year found that the range of 70 electric cars it tested was nearly 20 per cent lower than advertised, meaning motorists could end up having to recharge more regularly than they think.

'What badly needs to happen is for the Government to cut the VAT rate on public chargers from 20 per cent to match the 5 per cent levied on domestic electricity to not only make charging away from home cheaper but to allow those who may not ever be able to do that benefit from lower cost electric driving.

A spokesman for ChargeUK, the voice of the UK's EV charging industry, said: 'It's an obvious unfairness that those without access to a driveway or off-street parking pay more tax to charge their electric vehicle than others.

A spokesman for the Treasury said: 'To drive the UK's move to electric vehicles, we have provided over £2.5 billion to cut down purchase costs for drivers and to build the necessary infra-structure to support their usage, such as local on-street residential charging and targeted plug-in vehicle grants.

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