London Mayor Ken Livingstone today announced a tripling of the congestion charge for ‘Chelsea tractors’ to £25 a day - the equivalent of £6,500 a year. The 90% discount for zone residents owning gas-guzzlers (band G vehicles) will also be scrapped - meaning they will have to pay the full amount wherever they live. He is also proposing, from October, that cars emitting the lowest amounts of greenhouse gas emissions (bands A and B cars), such as Ford Fiestas, Fiat Pandas and Renault Clios, should get a 100% discount. Until now the only total exemption from the £8-a-day charge was for electric, hybrid and bio-fuel cars, such as the Toyota Prius and G-Whizz.
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