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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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US cash for clunkers scheme ends

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The US car scrappage scheme know as the ‘cash for clunkers’ plan will end next week after the funds ran out. At the same time, we’ve been able to take old, polluting cars off the road and help consumers purchase fuel efficient vehicles.”. Now we are working toward an orderly wind down of this very popular program.”.

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The Budget 2009 - working towards sustainable transport

Green Cars News

Introducing a vehicle scrappage scheme. From April 2010 the new 13 bands will be further separated out to strengthen the environmental message and first-year rates of VED* will be introduced to further persuade new vehicle purchasers to choose lower emitting, more fuel efficient cars. Vehicle Scrappage Scheme. Company Car Tax.

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Drive Electric Submission on the Emissions Reduction Plan Discussion Document

Drive Electric NZ

By signalling to New Zealanders that fossil fuel vehicles are being phased out, they can factor this into their decision-making about their next car purchase. Scrappage schemes . The OECD has conducted analysis on the components of effective ‘scrappage schemes’. This is also a matter of fairness. This creates a distortion.