Plug-in car grant extended to 2018
by Gwyn Topham Transport correspondent from Technology | The Guardian on (#Y0GZ)
Revised scheme will focus incentives on zero-emissions vehicles and no longer subsidise most expensive hybrids
Grants to subsidise the purchase of electric and other low-emission cars are to be extended by at least two years, to encourage more than 100,000 UK motorists to buy greener vehicles.
The plug-in car grant, which gives buyers up to 4,500 towards the cleanest new cars, will now run until March 2018, the Department for Transport announced on Thursday.
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