In July 2022, the British government removed all support for new electric cars, at least for private individuals. Now car brands in the country are criticizing the government for not doing enough for motorists.
How much support should electric cars have?
That seems to be the biggest question in and around the car industry at the moment. The other day, Volkswagen criticized the German government for not supporting electric cars enough financially.
And now a number of car brands are doing the same in England, where since July 2022 there have been no support schemes for private individuals who want to buy a new electric car.
That's what Autocar writes.
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There is also a distortion in the English car market. Because people in company cars can get government support for a new electric car. And that, the car brands say, should also apply to private individuals.
But there is no support for the time being, even though the British government is adamant that the country's car brands must sell at least 22 percent of new, pure electric cars this year.
– It is extremely disappointing that the support scheme for electric cars for private individuals has not returned to the Finance Act.
– Without government support for electric cars, there is no reason why motorists should switch to electric cars. Unfortunately, it seems that the transition to electric cars is not a priority for the government, says Fiat's English importer.
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Another Stellantis brand, Opel/Vauxhall, also complains that the British government is not throwing money at drivers who want to switch to a new electric car.
– If we want to bring the rightly high ambitions into vogue, there needs to be state-supported electric cars for private drivers.
– After all, there are most of them on European roads, says James Taylor, managing director of Vauxhall in England.
At home, the government should also have scaled back the Danish subsidy scheme in the form of a lenient registration tax on electric cars.
But it did not happen. Instead, a majority in Christiansborg decided last year to extend the support scheme.
Still, De Danske Bilimportorer believes that the Danes must now adjust and only buy electric cars. Read more about it here .
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