£5,000 electric car grant scheme launched by the UK government

If you intend to go "green" with vehicle, wanting to buy an electric car in the UK, the UK government has good news for you.

The UK government wants to get more people to buy electric vehicles thus helps keep a cleaner environment with less emissions of carbon.

A £5,000 electric car grant has been introduced by the UK government as follows:.

Motorists will have a choice of just one subsidised car to buy outright as the project is launched – the Mitsubishi i-MiEV – but should have a choice of nine or 10 fully electric and plug-in hybrid cars by 2012.

Among the first available to buy will be the Nissan Leaf in March, which is billed as the first mass-market electric car. It is currently being made in Japan and will be made in Sunderland from 2013 onwards.

Besides the UK, other countries that are on the way offering the EV grant are US, France and China. The US gives motorists a $7,300 (£4,708) tax credit for cars such as the Volt and Leaf, China offers electric car-makers £4,721 per car and France has a €5,000 (£4,240) grant scheme. Carbon emissions are expected to reduce by 40 percent with these efforts by the countries.

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