road tax rules UK ?

[monster]

does anyone know how the road tax rules work in practice in the UK?

i read that after march 2001 road tax is based on carbon emissions and that electric vehicles are tax free!

however i have seen several post 2001 low emission vehicles (505cc engine 100mpg) that seem to still get charged £110 when they should be free or £35?

if you take a pre 2001 chassis and make it an electric car i have herd that you still have to pay £110 road tax!

on the DVLA website i read-
"The rates shown only apply to cars that have been type approved in category M1 and registered on the basis of CO2 emissions measured in grams per kilometre (g/km) driven. These details are shown on the Registration Certificate."

WTF is M1 ??? i thought it was a motorway!! :lol:


anyone have experience of this?

 

[NickF23]

my understanding is that all electric vehicles are tax exempt.

 

[monster]

oh i remember now, they have a special exemption!

still i'm interested in getting a light weight micro car for maybe eventual conversion to an electric vehicle. i'm having a hard time finding one with the low road tax that a low emission vehicle rightly deserves.

 

[monster]

ok i figured it out.

because the ligier, microcar, aixam is rated as a quadracycle and not a car it doesn't go through the same emissions testing for some reason and therefore doesn't qualify for road tax based on emissions. this is realy dumb imo because these vehicles are clearly commuter cars and not leasure motorbikes.

i was hoping to get a cheap car with no road tax and less to insure.

however the quadracycle thing actually seams to increase the insurance as well.

i think they will still make a good electric vehicle though.