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Re:Understanding Uber: It's Not About the App by Brakenshire on Monday September 25, 2017 @09:42AM (#15330372)
> Otherwise, electric/hybrid cars wouldn't be exempt but charged the same amount!

That's an anomaly I'd say. The congestion charge was introduced in 2003, at that point electric cars were a curiosity, a fraction of a fraction of the market. I'd expect within 10-15 years the exemption will be removed.

The purpose was partly to reduce pollution, but as a secondary effect of the primary aim to reduce traffic:

https://londontransportdata.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/inne...

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