I WAS highly intrigued by David Wilkins’ car review of the Renault Zoe.

You can read it here: Renault Zoe car review – electric motoring for the price of a Clio.

In other words, you have the choice: traditional Clio with petrol or diesel; or new all-electric Zoe.

Quite tempting I reckon.

However, for company car drivers, it’s not quite that simple.

Because electric car company car tax – like any other car – is paid on the P11D value of the car.

In the case of the Renault Zoe, the P11D includes the cost of the car (without any government grant) plus the cost of the batteries, which have to be leased at £70 a month.

So instead of being £13,650, the P11D is actually more than double that – £27,380 for our Renault Zoe Dynamique Intens car review model.

Now you might think this doesn’t matter as a company car driver: electric car company car tax is currently rated at a 0% company car tax liability.

True.