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Victorian owners of electric cars and other zero-emissions vehicles will be required to pay a road-user tax of 2.5 cents per kilometre driven from 1 July 2021 – and the precedent could trigger other states to follow.
The charge amounts to $375 a year based on the national average distance travelled of 15,000km, or just $125 a year for vehicles that travel 5000km a year.
The Victorian Government argued the road user charge needed to be introduced because zero emissions vehicles avoid fuel excise, a large portion of which goes towards roads.
The new laws, passed this week by the Victorian Legislative Assembly, also require plug-in hybrid owners to pay 2 cents for every kilometre driven ($300 for every 15,000km).
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Experts acknowledge there are many cheaper ways to reduce carbon dioxide emissions than electric cars.
Jaguar’s I-PACE is an electric car.
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Tony Wood, one of Australia’s foremost energy experts, recently bought an I-PACE, a Jaguar electric car that can hit 100km/h in under five seconds while playing songs from his Spotify account.
Wood, an analyst at the Grattan Institute think-tank, wanted to explore alternatives to the internal combustion engine and help the planet.
He loves driving the car but has found some practical difficulties. “Getting a charging facility in an apartment building is currently a bit of a chore,” he says.