Government to offer £5,000 incentives to jump-start electric car market

James S Murray
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Major new grant scheme and rollout of demonstration vehicles aim to drive electric cars into the mainstream

Motorists and businesses are to be offered grants of up to £5,000 when they buy electric cars or plug-in hybrids, under wide-reaching plans unveiled today by the government that will also result in the...

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