Green Cars News

MAY 15, 2009

Car buyers, set to take advantage of the UK’s £2,000 scrappage incentive, to be launched on Monday, could find that the benefit of the scheme wiped out in depreciation within just 88 days of purchasing a new vehicle. The UK’s best-selling car – the Ford Focus Style – loses £8,625 or 51 per cent of its value in the first year alone.

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Green Cars News

JANUARY 7, 2010

The last year was not the easiest for the car industry, figures out today show that car sales were down 6.4 The situation could have been made worse if it weren’t for the support of the scrappage scheme, [.]. Tags: Ford Green credentials 2009 Fiesta figures focus registrations Sales scrappage smmt.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 21, 2009

The US car scrappage scheme know as the ‘cash for clunkers’ plan will end next week after the funds ran out. This program has been a lifeline to the automobile industry, jump starting a major sector of the economy and putting people back to work,” Secretary LaHood said. billion in rebates.

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Green Cars News

JUNE 26, 2009

Since the introduction of Britain’s vehicle scrappage scheme, everything appears rosy for the country’s automotive industry once more. Environmentalists have dubbed the vehicle scrappage scheme “a bailout masquerading as a green initiative” and have slammed the Government for failing to tie the initiative to green cars.

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Green Cars News

MAY 7, 2009

Traditionally a busy time of the year, the month of April is a particularly important for the car industry as the new year registration plates come in, usually leading to a boom in new car sales. The UK motor industry remains of strategic importance and will play a key part in generating jobs and prosperity into the future.” .

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 4, 2009

So after the UK’s vehicle scrappage scheme was hailed a success, what of the so-called “cash for clunkers&# programme in the US? The subsidy programme has helped Ford to its first increase in US vehicle sales since 2007 after it sold 158,838 vehicles in July - that’s an increase of two per cent on the same month last year.

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Drive Electric

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

New and used vehicle importers, fleet companies, the electricity sector, other supporting industries and consumers need certainty about government climate and transport policy over the long-term. Scrappage schemes. This will require around 1 million new and used EVs to be brought into New Zealand over the next 13 years.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 18, 2009

The Car Allowance Rebate System (CARS for short, or ‘cash for clunkers’ as it is more commonly known) was the US’s answer to the scrappage schemes in Germany and the UK which appeared to have revitalised their respective automotive sectors. With General Motors and Chrysler also showing signs of modest improvement, all looked rosy.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 3, 2012

for the overall US industry. Austerity plans will prevent governments in Europe from boosting 2012 sales through scrappage programs and other incentives offered in previous years. Traditional domestic manufacturers, General Motors, Ford and Chrysler, will continue to grow in 2012 as the industry continues to recover.

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Drive Electric

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

EVs are a technology that are now proven, are increasingly price competitive, and will be the future of the automotive industry. The domestic OEM industry can think differently, and look to Europe (particularly the UK) for new and used supply. It’s also worth noting that the global car industry is changing rapidly.

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