[plextoria]

Your comment completely disregards the existence of low-emission and EV vehicles. The article mentions that petrol cars registered after 2006 won't need to pay the emissions charge. That's cars that are 16! years old.

[paganel]

Those vehicles were implicit in the “laptop class” expression that I used, they’re some of the few who can afford them.

[varispeed]

Don't forget that there was a big campaign to get people on diesel cars. Turns out the "science" was wrong again and now diesel cars registered before 2016 are not compliant.