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Scrap your car for free bus travel

Green Cars News

A bus company on the Isle of Wight has launched its own version of the car scrappage scheme, offering motorists free travel on its buses for a year in exchange for their old banger. The government funded Car scrappage is a scheme that does nothing to tackle the fact that we have to encourage people to use their cars less.

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Retrofitting three-wheeler to electric 

Electric Vehicles India

Retrofitting in three-wheelers is implemented without considering technical aspects and it is done by local companies. Scrappage policy . Auto-rickshaws were manufactured as per BS-IV norms and as per the government “scrappage policy,” the BS-IV vehicles will be dumped off. Start-up E-Trio in India.

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The Budget 2009 - working towards sustainable transport

Green Cars News

Increasing company car benefit in kind tax in the future for all but the lowest carbon cars. Introducing a vehicle scrappage scheme. Company Car Tax. The net effect is to increase the company car benefit in kind tax year by year on all vehicles except those emitting 120g CO2 per kilometre or less. Emissions g/km.

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Drive Electric Submission on the Emissions Reduction Plan Discussion Document

Drive Electric

Scrappage schemes . The OECD has conducted analysis on the components of effective ‘scrappage schemes’. solar and wind) so the proposed reductions in emissions from the energy system must be balanced to ensure reliability in the system to support higher dependency for transport. .