All London residents are eligible for the grant to purchase compliant vehicles, including a switch to bikes, e-bikes and cargo bikes.
Businesses are also set to receive more financial help with the grant per van being raised from £5,000 to £7,000 and the number of vans or minibuses small businesses and sole traders can scrap will increase to three – meaning small businesses could get £21,000 for a greener fleet.
Minibus payments will also be increased, as will the payments for switching to an electric vehicle, meaning some businesses could secure even higher levels of support.
what vehicles were those? The last vehicle specific incentive I remember was charge point grants and before that LPG conversion grants on petrol back in about 2005.
Diesels generally, the rejig of the VED and Company Car tax regime to change the balance between Petrol and Diesel engine cars - This article gives a reasonable background analysis. On the day that a Judge is appointed to the Letby Inquiry, it is worth wondering why there has been no Inquiry into this dumb policy that likely killed an order of magnitude more people.
[As far as EL is concerned, he is one of the few reasons I bother coming to this forum now, he can be interesting and has some wit, unlike the full timers who I find exceedingly dull and dim. And commentating on people's posting styles or accusing them of trolling is exceedingly ****tish behaviour so I apologise for that.]
VED is fair enough. I meant actual buyers rather than leasing but since it feeds the second hand market I'll concede that point as well.
this dumb policy that likely killed an order of magnitude more people.
It's sort of startling that people who say they hate Labour/the Government are also pretending that Gordon Brown not putting quite as high VED supplements on high-polluting diesels as
high-polluting petrols 20 years ago was a cast iron instruction to buy diesels forever because they're good for the environment.
£20 off VED was never as important to the rise of diesels as the global auto industry working out how to make them smaller, more fuel-efficient, and cleaner than they were before. (Or, as it turns out, how to fake the tests to make it appear that way. Looking forward to hearing how that was Gordon Brown's fault too).
With the best will in the world, the impact of Labour's tax policy particularly the company car tax regime under both Brown and Darling was recognized both at the time and since in both the specialist and main stream press as being a key driver to the increase to diesel cars sales. To question this is frankly delusional. On the bright side you are well qualified to join Trump's campaign staff.
He can’t afford to replace it like for like so he has told me that he will pay the ulez charge and add the cost to his customers.
This is a) obvious (his fee I guess also includes provision for fuel and products used) and b) does dilute the idea of the whole thing.
I have a non compliant car, live outside the zone but occasionally will be required to go in it for work. Apart from an annual visit to heathrow I dont think I have a personal reason to travel there.
We'll be charging customers an extra £25 (to include our internal time of administration as well as the fee). I won't be changing my vehicle for the benefit of my employer, nor do they expect me to.
There is no possible location in London where this extra cost will change my descision of mode of transport for work purposes. So net reduction in harmful urban emissions from me (2013 diesel) will be nothing.
There will be an extraction of money from Londoners* and London businesses into the government coffers though.
*In relation to my business, the only private house projects we get in London will be in multi million pound houses so don't get too upset about it affecting the poor financially.
