What are the remaining 7.3%? Horse-drawn buggies?

The increases have mostly been on very expensive cars (> £40,000). Not much has changed for the average driver. Petrol is the cheapest it's been for a long time in real terms.

They're planning a per-mile EV tax too. There's very little in the UK that's not taxed to death.

When the UK governemtn mentioned the clocks going back and getting an extra hour on X, a lot of the comments we "how many minutes will we have left of that hour after you've taxed it".

No, there have been no new taxes on ICE cars. Fuel duty (tax paid on petrol/diesel) has been reduced by a "temporary" 5p/litre since 2022 and that's been extended in October for at least another year.

I don't think any UK government would dare increase taxes on ICE cars. Hence why each year we go through the charade of "extending" the "temporary" fuel duty freeze.

Conversely EVs will pay a 3p/mile surcharge on their vehicle excise duty (eVED) beginning in April 2028. For an average user driving 8,000 miles/year this is a tax hike to EVs of £240/year. ICE cars won't be charged this as they pay fuel duty already (which works out way more than 3p/mile at pretty much any fuel efficiency).

The UK isn't in the EU and doesn't apply tariffs on Chinese imports (unlike the EU).

Only about 12% of BEV sales in the UK are Chinese manufacturers, so this may not actually make _that_ much difference.