{"id":142692,"date":"2022-07-23T02:23:57","date_gmt":"2022-07-23T07:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/uks-plug-in-grant-is-no-more-what-happened-to-making-evs-affordable-for-everyone"},"modified":"2022-07-23T02:23:57","modified_gmt":"2022-07-23T07:23:57","slug":"uks-plug-in-grant-is-no-more-what-happened-to-making-evs-affordable-for-everyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/uks-plug-in-grant-is-no-more-what-happened-to-making-evs-affordable-for-everyone","title":{"rendered":"UK\u2019s \u2018plug-in-grant\u2019 is no more \u2014 what happened to making EVs affordable for everyone?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/uks-plug-in-grant-is-no-more-what-happened-to-making-evs-affordable-for-everyone2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>View insights.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Since 2011, the UK government has been providing a tax-payer funded discount on the sale of battery electric vehicles. Known as the \u201cplug-in car grant\u201d, it was designed to help persuade motorists make the switch from diesel or petrol and commit to electric driving.<\/p>\n<p>But last month the grant <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autocar.co.uk\/car-news\/consumer\/uk-government-axes-plug-car-grant-immediate-effect\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">was scrapped<\/a> with immediate effect. It wasn\u2019t exactly a surprise, given that the amount buyers were able to claim back had gradually been whittled down from <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Government_incentives_for_plug-in_electric_vehicles#United_Kingdom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">\u00a35,000<\/a> to \u00a31,500; or that it was recently available only for new vehicles costing less than \u00a332,000 (the average cost of electric cars is around <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nimblefins.co.uk\/average-cost-electric-car-uk#buy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">\u00a343,000<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>In fact, the government had been trying to scrap the grant completely for a while. Only a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoexpress.co.uk\/car-news\/104868\/government-electric-car-grant-will-come-to-an-end-transport-secretary-says\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">major backlash<\/a> a couple of years ago forced the government to do a speedy handbrake turn and keep it going for a while longer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>View insights. Since 2011, the UK government has been providing a tax-payer funded discount on the sale of battery electric vehicles. Known as the \u201cplug-in car grant\u201d, it was designed to help persuade motorists make the switch from diesel or petrol and commit to electric driving. But last month the grant was scrapped with immediate [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1490,17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}