Truck tolls: what an electric truck pays against diesel
In most of Europe a truck pays per kilometre on motorways and main roads, and in many countries an electric truck pays much less than a diesel truck, or nothing at all. But each country does it its own way, and most of those discounts shrink or end in the coming years. Here is what a truck over 32 tonnes pays per kilometre in every country this site calculates, year by year.
1Latest news
2Diesel and electric, per kilometre
A tractor of more than 32 tonnes: a diesel truck of the cleanest class (Euro 6, and the most expensive CO₂ class where there is one) against an electric truck, in euros per kilometre without VAT. Only the kilometres on tolled roads count.
published set by the authority · reported quoted by a source, not yet published · worked out by us computed from the law · +2% no rate published yet, so we add 2% a year. In Wallonia and Austria VAT comes on top, which a company gets back.
3Year by year
Discounts for electric trucks change over time: Belgium’s shrinks every year, Germany’s ends in mid-2031, Switzerland’s at the end of 2030. Where a country has not set its rate for a year, we add 2% a year, as the business case does.
4Country by country
Where each figure comes from, and what is still open.
What these tolls do to the whole cost of an electric truck: the business case, the stress test without toll breaks and every electric truck against diesel, country by country.
Sources
- The rates: this site’s own toll data, the same figures the business case uses. Each zone’s note in section 4 names where its figures come from.