I read with interest about these battery-powered cars. What a marvellous vehicle: no road tax, 100 miles for just £2 to charge the batteries – this is wonderful, wonderful!

But questions come to mind. Why are they not paying road tax?

Every vehicle using our roads has to pay the dreaded tax.

The only concession I know is vintage cars, which only do a few miles per year, but these battery cars will clock up thousands of miles per year.

Road tax was introduced to pay for the upkeep and repair of our roads. Vintage cars won’t cause much wear and tear on our roads owing to the low mileage, but the battery cars will cause as much damage as petrol cars, so it seems sensible to assume they should pay the road tax.

After all, they are only paying £2 per 100 miles so they shouldn’t mind paying.

The Government will be out of pocket by billions of pounds. Where would the money come from to repair and maintain our roads then?

Looking into the future, I can see our motorways filled with battery-powered cars and none of them paying road tax.

But of course the Government wont let it come to that, will they?

I envisage a battery or acid tax to save the day.

J TURNER, Main Avenue, Sandford on Thames