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FleetCheck is warning that the Government’s planned electric Vehicle Excise Duty (eVED), a new pay-per-mile tax starting from April 2028, could unintentionally drive an increase in car clocking.
Under current proposals:
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Zero-emission cars will pay 3p per mile
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Plug-in hybrids will pay 1.5p per mile
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Rates will rise annually with CPI
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Vans, buses, coaches and HGVs are excluded (for now)
FleetCheck CEO Peter Golding says a driver covering 20,000 miles a year could face a £600 annual bill, and for some people, the temptation to reduce mileage digitally may prove hard to resist.
Despite modern odometers, clocking remains surprisingly easy, often involving nothing more than plugging into the diagnostics port. Some estimates suggest one in seven cars is already affected.
Vehicle history specialists CarVertical also found that among two-year-old cars where manipulation was detected, the average rollback exceeded 20,000 miles.
Golding argues that while mileage-based taxation sounds fair in theory, it clashes with decades of driver behaviour, where VED is paid once and mileage is unlimited.
His concern? eVED could create a new incentive for fraud, distorting the used market just as EV adoption begins to scale.
EV Café Takeaway:
“Yeah – piece of cake to clock a car” 🫤🫤🫤
"Mileage‑based taxation sounds fair on paper. In reality it risks damaging trust in the used EV market unless enforcement catches up".