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Alternative fuels lose company car discounts

Green Cars News

Up until now all company hybrids and alternative fuel vehicles have been taxed at 10 per cent of their value, however the reforms mean that all cars will be taxed according to CO2 emissions in a move to increase the incentive to select the greenest company cars.

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CalCars and PHEVs Frequently Asked Questions

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Dont PHEVs just shift pollution from gasoline cars to power plants? But its monumentally less pollution , even on the national (half-coal) grid. Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) is the concept of using stored energy in a plug-in hybrids (or electric cars) battery to send power to the electrical grid when necessary.

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