Green Car Congress
APRIL 23, 2009
The report, authored by experts from Aberdeen University, Imperial College and E4tech Consulting, finds that Government must do much more than promote electric cars if it wants rapid and deep cuts in transport emissions. It also discusses fuel taxes and prices, which affect both travel and vehicle choices.
Green Car Congress
JULY 26, 2017
The government will also issue a consultation in the autumn to gather views on measures to support motorists, residents and businesses affected by local plans—such as retrofitting, subsidized car club memberships, exemptions from any vehicles restrictions, or a targeted scrappage scheme for car and van drivers.
Green Cars News
APRIL 30, 2009
Increasing company car benefit in kind tax in the future for all but the lowest carbon cars. Introducing a vehicle scrappage scheme. Announcing new investment in de-carbonising electricity generation. From April 2010 anyone buying a new car will pay a different rate of vehicles tax in the first year of registration.
Green Cars News
JULY 28, 2009
Having already adjusted its road tax system to penalise the heaviest polluters and introduced congestion charges; the Government created a vehicle scrappage scheme earlier this year meant to help more motorists make green choices while boosting the automotive sector. Electric cars remain something of a gamble.
Green Cars News
NOVEMBER 10, 2009
So would these tax hikes linked to the amount we pollute be justified? Is a green tax blitz justified? The 100-page report wants to double the proportion of green taxes in the current tax take from the existing level of seven per cent. Among its suggestions is a £300 tax on new cars, increasing annually to £3,300 by 2020.
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