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The government is expected to announce an extra \u00a31.3bn in funding for a scheme encouraging the use of electric vehicles (EVs) at next week’s Budget. <\/p>\n

The Electric Car Grant scheme started in July as part of the move to zero emission vehicles. The government says it has helped 35,000 switch to EVs.<\/p>\n

However, early research suggests there is little indication the scheme has attracted entirely new buyers. <\/p>\n

There will also be money to create more charging points, and a consultation on helping people without driveways to charge their cars. <\/p>\n

It is also possible EV owners could face a new tax elsewhere in Wednesday’s Budget in the form of a pay-per-mile charge in future.<\/p>\n

All new cars will have to be electric or hybrid from 2030, when a ban on the sale of new petrol and diesel cars comes into force.<\/p>\n

The Electric Car Grant scheme, which provides a discount of up to \u00a33,750 on eligible vehicles, was launched with an initial fund of \u00a3650m.<\/p>\n

New AutoMotive, a non-profit organisation supporting the UK’s transition to electric vehicles, found in a recent study<\/a> that the scheme had yet to expand the market for EVs.<\/p>\n

EVs covered by the scheme made up 23.8% of new registrations in September, the same as their share before the Electric Car Grant was announced, New Automotive said.<\/p>\n

“It isn’t yet clear that it’s prompting consumers to consider buying cars that they wouldn’t have gone ahead and bought anyway,” David Farrar, policy manager for New AutoMotive, said at the time.<\/p>\n

The Budget is also expected to announce a further \u00a3200m for speeding up the rollout of chargepoints across the UK.<\/p>\n

Data from Zapmap<\/a> shows almost 87,000 points across the UK, in about 44,000 locations. Those include places like supermarket car parks and lamppost chargers.<\/p>\n

“The proposed funding will support the creation of thousands of chargepoints and provide extra resources for local authorities to ramp up charging infrastructure on local streets – making it easier for everyone to access reliable charging, including those without off-street parking,” the government said.<\/p>\n

Chancellor Rachel Reeves, it added, was “expected to publish a consultation on Permitted Development Rights to make it easier and cheaper for people without a driveway to charge”.<\/p>\n

However, it is also possible that EV owners could face a new tax in the Budget in the form of a pay-per-mile charge from 2028. <\/p>\n

A government spokesperson told the BBC earlier this month: “Fuel duty covers petrol and diesel, but there’s no equivalent for electric vehicles. We want a fairer system for all drivers.”<\/p>\n

Reeves is being urged not to raise taxes on drivers overall, with campaigners preparing to deliver a petition to Downing Street early next week which calls for fuel duty, long frozen, not to be increased.<\/p>\n

Richard Holden, the shadow transport secretary, said that “handing out \u00a31.5 billion in EV subsidies while hard-working taxpayers are squeezed dry” was “madness”.<\/p>\n

“Ordinary families are facing increased taxes and spiralling inflation under Labour, yet the Government’s priority is handing out discounts on new electric cars,” the Conservative MP said. <\/p>\n

Reeves is expected to increase some taxes in the Budget after saying she means to bring down NHS waiting lists, the national debt and the cost of living.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The government is expected to announce an extra \u00a31.3bn in funding for a scheme encouraging the use of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":588047,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,12,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-588046","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115597069675275845","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=588046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/588047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}