Thread: Hybrid vs petrol - surprising outcome

Originally Posted by Pengy

Stupid question, but how can they distinguish between kms traveled using petrol and those using electricity, in the case of plug in hybrid.
Am I not understanding how these cars work?

They basically took a guess, and then someone second guessed them so they backed down and lowered the ratios. If you're city based and only run on the battery you're winning, if your battery is fucked and do open road driving so use mostly petrol you're fucked. They've had years to see these problems but are only just starting to look at using RUCs for all vehicles and "doing away with the fuel tax" YEAH RIGHT, They'll just tax both ways.

Originally Posted by No good names left

They basically took a guess, and then someone second guessed them so they backed down and lowered the ratios. If you're city based and only run on the battery you're winning, if your battery is fucked and do open road driving so use mostly petrol you're fucked. They've had years to see these problems but are only just starting to look at using RUCs for all vehicles and "doing away with the fuel tax" YEAH RIGHT, They'll just tax both ways.

The plan is to drop fuel tax off petrol - part of this is due to the change of fuel types and more changes in fuels to come - its getting to hard to adjust road users if its on fuel purchase. The issue is the RUC setup is light on capacity. But on the other hand off road claim back and non-road-vehicle use (agriculture, boat etc) is a nightmare as well...