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Jennifer Dudley-Nicholson

Electric vehicle fee could throttle record adoption

Working families in outer suburbs could be hardest hit by an electric vehicle road user fee. (Jono Searle/AAP PHOTOS)

An annual fee for driving electric vehicles could put the brakes on their record sales in Australia, with almost one in three households saying it would change their purchase intentions.

Working families in outer suburbs were most likely to be deterred from buying an EV by a road-user charge, a study has found, while retirees were among the least affected.

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