March 16 2026
The Confederation of Passenger Transport has responded to the Government's consultation on the Introduction of Electric Vehicle Excise Duty (eVED). Read the full response here.
The bus and coach sector is ideally placed to help the government deliver on its key priorities including growing the economy, breaking down barriers to opportunity, supporting people into work, bringing down carbon emissions, and building a modern transport system.
While the consultation is clear that eVED will not be applied to bus and coach, which we strongly support, the direction of travel toward mileage based road taxation has clear implications and opportunities for the wider transport system.
Reform of motoring taxation provides a real opportunity to actively support shifting private car journeys to public transport which, in turn, would further support delivery of Government’s ambitions on decarbonisation, air quality, congestion reduction and modal shift ambitions.