Motorists

Motorists

Be Motorist Friendly 

LOWER COSTS FOR MOTORISTS 

  • Support British designed and built ultra-low emission vehicles, using British green steel. Especially for lowest priced small cars. 

  • End London's Congestion and Ultra Low Zone (ULEZ) Charge and Birmingham’s CAZ (clean air zone). 


  • End Speed Cameras. 


  • Free and more council car parks


  • No on-street car parking charges
  • Cut Fuel Duty by 10p a litre and VAT to 10 per cent, from 2nd year of Over 50s party government. 
    • Tory government lowered fuel duty by 5p for only 12 months from end March 2022. 
    • Tory government charges 58p per litre fuel duty and 20 per cent VAT on petrol and diesel (2022). 


  • Have E5 and E10 petrol the same price. 


  • Lower Premium Tax, so car insurance is more affordable, to 1994 rate of 2.5 per cent. With no higher rate, as in 1994, that includes travel insurance (that has within it medical insurance when abroad).


BETTER DESIGNED ROADS 
  •  Use Road Traffic Accident Investigators, RAC, AA, Green Flag, and other accident prevention bodies like Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) and Road Safety Foundation, to research better road design, to progress to lower motorist deaths. 
  • Not only fill in potholes, but resurface roads. Research using recycled plastics in making the tarmac. All roads, not just motorways and A-roads, including rural lanes. 


  • End Smart Motorways and bring back hard shoulder wide enough to fully open driver's car, van or lorry doors safely, when vehicle breaks down. 



DISABLED BLUE BADGE HOLDERS 
  • Free car tax for all with UK disabled blue parking badges. 

  • More disabled 24-hour free parking bays in village hubs, towns and cities. 

  • Free parking everywhere for holders of disabled blue badges. 


  • Not fine drivers with disability benefit and / or blue disabled parking badges, for accessing disability parking bays through bus lanes. 


ELECTRIC CAR BATTERY
FACTORIES IN ENGLAND AND WALES 

  • Build three new, state-owned gigafactories, of 30,000 jobs in each plant, to build electric car batteries in Potteries (Stoke on Trent), Croydon (south London) and South Wales.

  • Nationalise the Tory / Labour policy private electric car battery factory intended for Bury, Greater Manchester. 

          • Background (2022)
The Tory government’s Automotive Transformation Fund will invest alongside
asset management company Abrdn and its majority-owned property investment arm, Tritax, to fund a sale and leaseback deal for the huge building that will house the electric car battery factory, near Blyth in Northumberland."... 
 (Northeast England). 
..."The plant will employ about 3,000 workers when it is at full capacity in around 2028.
The first batteries are scheduled to start production in 2024."... 


VEHICLE SCRAPPAGE AND
NEW ELECTRIC AND HYBRID CARS 

  • End new sales of petrol and diesel fuelled cars by 2035. 

  • 2.5 million interest-free loans for the purchase of electric private cars.

  • Bring about UK-wide government funded car scrappage scheme for at least 400,000 private cars and sole traders / charities' vehicles, sufficient to buy :

    • a new fully electric car, or
    • new or converted green hydrogen or hemp fuel hybrid all sizes of car or van and 4x4s. 

  • 2.5 million interest-free loans for the purchase of electric or hybrid green hydrogen or hemp fuel vehicles. 


GOVERNMENT COMPANY CARS 

  • 100 per cent of the government fleet to be electric or green hydrogen or hemp fuel hybrids by 2026, which is around 70,000 new electric vehicles.


ELECTRIC CHARGING POINTS 

  • Invest in more and swiftest electric vehicle chargers. Self generating electric power, so free electricity. 


  • Invest £3.6 billion into building state owned charging network.
  • Require all petrol stations to have swiftest electric car battery chargers, self generating the power from solar / small wind turbines (not propellor ones) on their supermarket / forecourt roofs. 

  • For company fleets that transition entirely to Electric Vehicles by 2026, pledge to install charging stations in their workplaces and depots.
RECYCLING CAR BATTERIES 
  • Invest £500 million in four state-owned metal reprocessing plants to reprocess / recycle cobalt and minerals used in batteries.

  • Invest £50 million in state owned
    drop-off points and battery collections sites.


FOR HYBRID CARS, VANS and 4x4s

  • Require all petrol stations to stock green hydrogen or hemp fuel. 


COMPANY CAR TAXES 

  • End tax on parking your car, motorcycle or bicycle at work. 


  • On private fleets (that make up half of all new vehicle purchases) put waiver on the excise duty surcharge for electric and hybrid electric company cars and vans. 

     
  • 1 per cent company car tax for fully electric company cars (back to Benefit in Kind (BiK) rate for 2021-2022 tax year).  


    BENEFIT IN KIND TAXES FOR DRIVERS 
  • As basic income tax falls to 10p in the Pound from 20p in the Pound, less BiK to pay by employee using company car. 
  • Lower BiK to 5 per cent for plug-in hybrid company cars that can cover between 30 and 39 miles on electric power alone; from current rate of drivers paying BiK at 10 per cent (2022-2023 rates). 

  • Lower to 3 per cent for those that can go even further (40-49 miles), as driver now pays  6 per cent BiK (2022). 

  • Either way, it’s far less than the 20 per cent-or-more rates that apply to petrol and diesel cars.


Sources:
1. https://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/news/stoke-on-trent-news/major-plans-revealed-create-3000-3354431

2. https://www.autoexpress.co.uk/car-news/107394/electric-cars-exempt-from-company-car-tax-next-year#:~:text=The%20government%20sets%20this%2C%20and,be%20a%20very%20affordable%20pick.


LEGACY FOSSIL FUEL CARS 

  • Lower entitlement to historic vehicle car tax exemption, to cars over 25 years old instead of 40 years.  


  • Motorists with old vehicles and classic cars will continue to have petrol / diesel provided.
    • Veteran cars are those built before 1919.
    • Vintage cars were built between 1919 and 1930.
    • Post-Vintage Cars were built between 1930 and 1945.
    • Classic car is defined by HMRC (the tax man) as being over 15 years old (built after 1946). 
 

CONVERTING PETROL / DIESEL CARS TO GREEN HYDROGEN FUEL 
  • Research converting petrol engines with complete green hydrogen fuel cell power system, which might be done by removing petrol engine and fuel systems and retrofitting a hydrogen storage tank, a fuel cell to convert hydrogen gas to electricity, a traction battery and an electric drive motor.
     
  • Or having cars future proofed by petrol fuelled car engines already designed for ease to conversion to run on green hydrogen fuel (not electric) or hemp fuel.  
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