Electric vehicles cruise past 500,000 milestone, but market decelerates in April following cut to plug-in car grant

Cecilia Keating
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Government claims UK's transition from fossil fuel vehicles is 'accelerating at speed', despite slight dip in EV sales in April in wake of cut to payments from popular grant programme

The government today hailed another major milestone for the UK electric vehicle (EV) market, as official sales figures confirmed there were now over half a million zero emission cars on the roads. But...

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