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Why choose an electric car?

THE company car tax break announced by the Chancellor in the Pre-Budget Report Tax is the next step towards five million electric vehicles, argues Andrew Davis from the Environmental Transport Association. And there are good reasons to consider one.

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18 December 2009

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By Andrew Davis, director, Environmental Transport Association

THE five year suspension of company car tax for electric vehicles (EVs) announced in the Pre-Budget Report (December 09) is one of a number of incentives needed if electric cars are to realise their potential on British roads.

Currently there are approximately 2,600 electric vehicles on British roads, a figure that represents 0.01% of the total number of cars on our roads. But, according to research carried out by the Department for Transport (DfT), by 2030 there could be as many as 5.8 million EVs in this country.

However, if current incentives are left in place and no additional action is taken they forecast that there could be as few as 500,000.

So if EVs are ever to compete on equal terms with petrol and diesel-engined cars, in the short to medium term there need to be incentives for car makers to build and drivers to buy EVs drivers to buy electric vehicles.

Incentives to buy electric cars

Why buy an electric car? The following are good incentives

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Ralph Morton

Ralph Morton

Ralph Morton is an award-winning journalist and the founder of Business Car Manager (now renamed Business Motoring). Ralph writes extensively about the car and van leasing industry as well as wider fleet and company car issues. A former editor of What Car?, Ralph is a vastly experienced writer and editor and has been writing about the automotive sector for over 35 years.

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