Wednesday, April 08, 2009
SCRAP: PM drops ‘yes’ hints
SCRAPPAGE will be given the green light in the budget on 22 April, PM Gordon Brown hints today.
He has said in a headline interview with The Independent newspaper that the Government is looking at a £2000 new car scrap scheme.
This is part of his desire to make Britain a ‘world leader’ in green vehicle production and technology, says the paper.
The focus of the new car scrap scheme would be taking older, highly polluting cars off the road. They would be replaced with newer eco-friendly models, the significant part of this statement is the ‘newer’ comment, rather than ‘brand new’.
This means the scheme will probably be extended to nearly new cars, too. The extent of this broader coverage remains to be confirmed.
UK car plants have already benefitted from green investment - yesterday, Jaguar Land Rover and Nissan received grants from the European Investment Bank, to help finance the production of green future models.
This is something the PM wants to see extended, creating up to 400,000 jobs in ‘green industries’ over the next five years. He wants Britain to become a ‘world leader’ in green cars.
It will extend to much wider support of fully electric cars to, including the development of a national network of roadside car recharge power points.
Trials of electric cars in cities will also commence next year, says the paper.
Plans are bold and far reaching. But the first step is an imposition of a new car scrap scheme.
This, it seems, could now be a matter of weeks away.
DATED: 08.04.09
FEED: CDM
He has said in a headline interview with The Independent newspaper that the Government is looking at a £2000 new car scrap scheme.
This is part of his desire to make Britain a ‘world leader’ in green vehicle production and technology, says the paper.
The focus of the new car scrap scheme would be taking older, highly polluting cars off the road. They would be replaced with newer eco-friendly models, the significant part of this statement is the ‘newer’ comment, rather than ‘brand new’.
This means the scheme will probably be extended to nearly new cars, too. The extent of this broader coverage remains to be confirmed.
UK car plants have already benefitted from green investment - yesterday, Jaguar Land Rover and Nissan received grants from the European Investment Bank, to help finance the production of green future models.
This is something the PM wants to see extended, creating up to 400,000 jobs in ‘green industries’ over the next five years. He wants Britain to become a ‘world leader’ in green cars.
It will extend to much wider support of fully electric cars to, including the development of a national network of roadside car recharge power points.
Trials of electric cars in cities will also commence next year, says the paper.
Plans are bold and far reaching. But the first step is an imposition of a new car scrap scheme.
This, it seems, could now be a matter of weeks away.
DATED: 08.04.09
FEED: CDM
