Calls for urgent boost of electric car ‘incentives’ as over £3,000 worth of freebies axed

Electric car experts have demanded more incentives. (Image: Getty) Experts have called for a dramatic boost in electric car incentives to help reverse an apparent declining interest in clean vehicles . Lisa Watson, Director of Sales at Close Brothers Motor Finance called on officials to “address motorists concerns” and make investments.

This would include dramatically improving electric car charging infrastructure and re-introducing incentives. Motorists who made the transition to EVs used to receive £2,500 as part of the Government’s plug-in-grant scheme which was axed in June 2022 . function loadOvpScript(){let el=document.

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