Wednesday, 11 February 2026

Terminology: Road user charging, tolls... what do people mean?

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I've written about this before , but I thought it was timely to repeat the point... Early on with this blog I bemoaned the plethora of w...
Tuesday, 10 February 2026

Iceland's world first: What does it teach others?

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Ten years ago nobody talked about Iceland and road user charging.  Even five years ago there was little thought given to the small European ...
Monday, 9 February 2026

California's Road Charge - A study in policy paralysis

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Forbes Magazine recently published an article headlined "California Mileage Tax—Pilot Programs And Permanent Policy Inertia" by A...
Monday, 1 December 2025

UK to implement road user charging for EVs and Plug-in Hybrids - called eVED

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As was widely forecast, the UK's Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Right Honourable Rachel Reeves, announced in the 2025 Budget that the ...
Wednesday, 12 November 2025

New Zealand's Parliament passes legislation to enable congestion pricing - unanimously (but the details will come later)

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In a possibly unprecedented step, the New Zealand Parliament has voted - unanimously - to pass legislation allowing for "Time of Use ro...
Tuesday, 11 November 2025

Switzerland consulting on RUC for electric vehicles

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Switzerland has the longest record of any European country with distance based road user charging, being the first to introduce it (for heav...
Thursday, 6 November 2025

UK likely to introduce road user charging for EVs and hybrids, and it doesn't resemble National Road Pricing

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The Daily Telegraph, Financial Times and multiple other UK newspapers are reporting that the UK's Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rachel R...
Monday, 6 October 2025

Oregon inches forward with RUC for EVs from 2031 mandated (sort of)

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The Oregon Senate has finally passed a transportation funding bill that at last extends the scope of Oregon’s light vehicle road usage charg...
Wednesday, 27 August 2025

Australia pursues road user charging... again...

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There has been a lot of coverage in Australian media of the idea of a national road user charge (RUC) being applied to electric vehicles (EV...
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