Who can’t claim for an electric car home charger grant? The grant isn’t available to drivers of electric cars who: Are not on the list of eligible EVs, or whose car is registered outside of the UK; Drivers who sometimes use an electric vehicle, but are not listed as the main drive...
and that the PICG "was vital in building the early market for electric vehicles", it reckons the grant's effect on demand for electric cars was subsequently less than "other existing price incentives, such as company car tax".
The plug-in car grant scheme had been running since 2011, with the government claiming it had supported the sale of nearly 500,000 electric cars on our shores. There had been repeated cuts to the amount of money that new EV drivers were able to claim though, withthe latest in December 2...
As well as the extension to grant schemes, the DfT has also announced it will continue to allow drivers holding standard car driving licences to drive electric goods vans at a higher weight limit, up to 4.25 tonnes (compared to a 3.5 tonne limit for diesel vans). This takes into account ...
Only 15 per cent likely to make switch to electric in next 12 months, FIAT study finds 60 per cent would consider making the switch if the vehicles were cheaper Over 80 per cent of EV drivers say it’s one of the best decisions they’ve made...
The government in the UK has, with immediate effect, changed the level of grants available to fleets as well as private buyers for electric cars and vans. The Plug-in Car Grant is reduced by £1,000 to a maximum of £1,500. Only vehicles that cost less than £32,000 (previously...
The government has alreadyscaled down the programme several times. Most recently, only electric cars up to a price of 32,000 pounds were subsidised with 1,500 pounds. The plug-in car grant was thus only available for a few vehicles on the market anyway. The repeated reduction to the equiva...
Daniel Gregorious, Head of Sales & Marketing at MG, said: “With the Government’s announcement that the Plug-in Car Grant is reduced from £3,500 to £3,000 from today, we wanted to be able to help our customers to switch to zero emissions electric MGs without spending mor...
WASHINGTON -- Declaring that electric cars could help put Americans to work and reduce dependence on oil, President Barack Obama said Wednesday that the federal government would spend $2.4 billion in stimulus money to build batteries and get the first batch of thousands of U.S.-made electric ...
BMW has dropped the price of its i3 and i3s electric models to ensure that buyers can still take advantage of the recently changed government plug-in car grant. The government slashed the plug-in car grant from £3,000 to £2,500 on March 18 while simultaneous lowering the ...