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subsidies for low emissions vehicles
Great idea. Buy a low-emissions van for your business and get help with the cost. I'd be there like a shot! Sadly there are few (if any) well tested hybrid or electric utility vehicles on the market yet. The tech is still prohibitively expensive for many. I've wanted a van for ages, but there's no way I'd ever buy a diesel.
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Depending on your usage, there are loads! I was driving an electric noddy-van for work 4-5 years ago!
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I'd sign up for this if I could charge it in the street without running a power cable across the path. I can see why anyone running a fleet would consider electric but it's still a pita for the smaller business that doesn't drive all day everyday and have a garage to arrange charging.
Dramatic_Hammer
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This is one of the things I flagged in my comments in this or the first survey sent around.
Of course it would be wonderful if all deliveries / children could be transported on Christiania bikes, but that isn't viable for everyone so I'm accepting there needs to be compromise.
I know there are impacts on the wider environment, but I thought giving subsidies for low emissions vehicles - particularly related to cashflow, so a tax holiday, or off-set. Or maybe even creating a "peoples car" a la Hitler, that fitted the brief.
The things that bug me are vehicles like Taxis, which are expensive to purchase and could have been using some form of hybrid technology for years. Didn't the Prius come out in 1997? Surely 20yrs is long enough to find an alternative design that isn't diesel based.