Letters: Why are we paying for rich people to charge their electric cars?

SIR - Could anyone explain to me why, when electric cars are only affordable by those of substantial means, do these vehicles attract a government grant towards purchase, nil road tax and, it would appear, free electricity provided at charge points that we ordinary mortals are paying for in our already over-inflated council tax?

Does anyone really believe that when the number of electric vehicles on the road reaches a more substantial figure and petrol/diesel vehicles, which contribute billions of pounds to the exchequer, decline rapidly, that the government will not suddenly impose an annual tax on these vehicles and the electricity they use?

And I dread to think what the ‘environmental’ charge will be when the electric car batteries have to be replaced (every five years) and the old ones disposed of.

Ms J Houston, Highcliffe