CitiPark to discount parking fees for EVs

Drivers of the most polluting vehicles are set to face higher charges to use private car parks as part of plans to improve air quality.

According to The Times, CitiPark, which operates a number of British car parks, has announced plans to impose a levy on all but the most fuel-efficient vehicles in order to help cut emissions.

The new “green tariff” will be available for cars emitting 75g or less of carbon dioxide per kilometre, which is typically only electric cars and some hybrid models.

This would give them an automatic discount of up to 20 per cent the price charged for petrol and diesel cars.

The change has initially been applied to the company’s Clipstone Street underground car park in Fitzrovia, central London.

This is set to be expanded to CitiPark’s 15 car parks across London, Watford, Manchester and Leeds this year with the possibility of being launched later in Edinburgh and Belfast.

However, Edmund Kind, president of the AA, has criticised the move stating that motorists who had bought petrol and diesel cars in “good faith only a few years ago were now being clobbered from all sides”.