{"id":3741,"date":"2012-09-12T09:00:56","date_gmt":"2012-09-12T09:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/?p=3741"},"modified":"2012-09-11T19:58:45","modified_gmt":"2012-09-11T19:58:45","slug":"london-van-operators-pay-for-congestion-charge-inequality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/3741","title":{"rendered":"London Van Operators Pay For Congestion Charge Inequality"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3742\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3742\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3742\" title=\"Vauxall Corsavan next to Corsa car in London\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/vauxhall-corsavan-corsa-car-sm.jpg\" alt=\"Vauxall Corsavan next to Corsa car in London\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3742\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Spot the difference: the owners of the Corsavan (l) pay \u00a310 for each day they enter the London Congestion Charging Zone. The owners of the Corsa car (r), which has identical emissions, are exempt and pay nothing.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>A flaw in the London Congestion Charge rules means that vans with low-emission vehicles don&#8217;t get the same exemptions as car operators.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Currently, any motorist who drives a car with emissions below 100g\/km CO<sub>2<\/sub> is exempt from the London Congestion Charge. However, light commercial vehicles under 3.5 tonnes with sub-100g\/km CO<sub>2<\/sub> emissions are not exempt.<\/p>\n<p>Vauxhall\u2019s Corsavan 1.3 CDTi ecoFLEX with Start\/Stop technology achieves emissions of just 89g\/km CO<sub>2<\/sub>, exactly the same as the equivalent 5-door Corsa, but<strong> unlike its passenger car variant, its operators must pay the Congestion Charge of \u00a310 per day.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For example, Plantire, an equipment hire firm based near <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/london-heathrow-airport\">Heathrow<\/a>, runs two Corsavans as service vehicles and usually makes six journeys per week into the Congestion Charge zone. It is effectively <strong>being penalised for running a low-CO<sub>2<\/sub> van<\/strong> in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/london\">London<\/a> to the tune of around<em><strong> \u00a33,000 per year<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Although this inequality is only going to affect a relatively small number of London van operators, it is very unfair and should clearly be rectified. Vans like the Corsavan are genuine car-derived vans; they are the same as the equivalent car models, except for interior modifications to create a loadspace and remove the rear row of seats.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">If you want to contact <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tfl.gov.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Transport for London<\/a> to complain about this nonsense, then you can email them at:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">enquiries@cclondon.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cars with CO2 emissions below 100g\/km are exempt from the London Congestion Charge, but vans with the same emissions are not. So owners of Vauxhall Corsavan ecoFLEX vans have to pay \u00a310 per day, while owners of Corsa ecoFLEX cars pay nothing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[1487,658,356,236,1179],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3741"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3741"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3744,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3741\/revisions\/3744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}