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<p>This Government has committed £2.5 billion since 2020 to support the transition
to zero emission vehicles, with funding to offset their higher upfront cost, and to
accelerate the rollout of chargepoint infrastructure.</p><p>Although Government has
recently closed the plug-in car grant to new orders, Plug-in Grants will continue
until at least financial year 2023/24 for taxis and motorcycles, and 2024/25 for vans,
trucks and wheelchair accessible vehicles.</p><p>Plug-in Grants are just one way in
which Government supports electric vehicle uptake. We have put in place favourable
benefit in kind tax rates for zero emission vehicles out to 2025: company car tax
was 1% in 2021/22 and 2% in 2022/23 through to 2024/25. Further, all zero emission
cars are exempt from vehicle excise duty (VED) and zero emissions vans pay a nil rate
of tax on the van benefit charge.</p><p>In addition, we announced in the Net Zero
Strategy that we will introduce a zero-emission vehicle mandate, setting targets for
a percentage of manufacturers' new car and van sales to be zero emission each year
from 2024.</p><p>In March we published our ambitious electric vehicle infrastructure
strategy, backed by £1.6 billion of funding, setting out our vision and commitments
to make electric vehicle charging cheaper and more convenient than refueling at a
petrol station, supporting drivers across the whole country to make the transition
to a cleaner, greener vehicle.</p>
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