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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Technology
Steve Fowler

Electric vehicles to face congestion charge for first time, Sadiq Khan announces

Londoners who drive electric vehicles are going to have to find £13.50 a day to drive their cars in the capital under plans by London mayor Sir Sadiq Kahn to revise the city’s congestion charge and scrap the cleaner vehicle discount, replacing it with a new tiered system.

The announcement comes just a week after news broke of government proposals to introduce a pay-per-mile levy on electric car use from 2028.

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