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Chancellor snubs electric cars in budget, retains 5p fuel duty freeze

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Jeremy Hunt said Spring Budget's duty freeze would “save the average driver £50 over the next year"

Fuel duty will be kept at 5p for another year, the chancellor announced in his Spring Budget today, but electric vehicles were left out with no benefits brought in to either incentivise buying nor reduce the cost of ownership as the country gears up to go EV-only in just over a decade.

However, the chancellor failed to bring in any new measures for – or mention – electric vehicles, despite both manufacturers and lobby groups calling for more to be offered by Westminster.

 

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