Sign our open letter to the Mayor of London
Sign our open letter to the Mayor of London
We’ve spoken to many small businesses and charities who are concerned by the Mayor’s plans to remove the full Congestion Charge discount for electric vans from the end of next year. These changes could add over £3,000 a year to the running costs of each electric van.
We’re calling on the Mayor to protect electric vans used by SMEs and charities with a full Congestion Charge discount, and we need your support.
Support small businesses and charities like us to electrify
Dear Mayor Khan,
Whilst we are happy to see that the Congestion Charge Cleaner Vehicle Discount is not ending, your current proposals will hit small businesses and charities hard. They also risk setting London’s climate ambitions back.
Under your current proposals, small businesses and charities who have done the right thing by investing in electric vans will face a new daily charge of £9. This could add more than £3000 to the annual running costs of each electric van. Some of them may even have to shift back to diesel to make ends meet.
This financial strain will also discourage the future uptake of electric vans, undermining your health and environmental targets.
That’s why we are coming together as businesses and charities to ask for an 100% discount for electric vans, quadricycles and trucks operated by an SME or charity, alongside the already proposed 50% discount for larger companies.
Please do the right thing for us and for the health of all Londoners by supporting small businesses and charities to electrify.
