Government plug-in car grant extended to February 2016 - CAR Magazine
Extension cables all round: the government has this week announced the Plug-in Car Grant, which offers £5000 off the price of cars that qualify as ‘ultra-low emission vehicles’ (ULEVs), will continue until at least February 2016. Originally the... As well as pure battery electric vehicles, hybrids with plug-in charging capability, such as the Volvo V60 PHEV for example, are also eligible for the grant. An announcement on the grant’s longer-term future will be announced following a spending review in November 2015. The Government has recently announced that £200 million has been made available to continue the grant. Is the grant really getting more people into electric (or at least part-electric) vehicles. A complex question, but registrations of ultra-low emission vehicles are on the up - not least because more such vehicles are arriving in showrooms. According to Go Ultra Low, a Government-backed campaign to encourage more private car buyers and company car fleets to consider ULEVs, registrations of plug-in cars in the first six months of 2015 grew by 256% against the same period last year,... Source: www.carmagazine.co.uk
