Pull the plug on free EV charging points

Sir, – Electric vehicle owners will soon have to pay to use the roads. From 2025 cars will

be liable for £165 a year, vans £290 but cars costing more than £40,000 will pay £500.

There are more than 590,000 on UK roads so that would bring in, at an average £300 a vehicle, £177 million every year.

EV owners got a substantial government grant and can charge their vehicles for free at local authority-provided charging points at council taxpayers’ expense.

This free electricity must stop. We now need cyclists and e-scooter owners to pay to use the roads and, illegally, the pavements.

Clark Cross.

Springfield Road,

Linlithgow.