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<p>This initiative from the British Vehicle Rental and Leasing Association is most
welcome. Many forward thinking businesses and consumers are already benefiting from
whole life cost savings that can be made from choosing plug-in vehicles. The Government
already offers the Plug-in Car Grant to help with the cost of purchasing electric
vehicles and has pledged that this will continue in some form until at least 2020.
Consumer incentives in some form will continue to play a role beyond 2020. The Government
has established a favourable tax regime to incentivise the purchase of the cleanest
vehicles, in particular zero emission vehicles.</p><p> </p><p>The Government recognises
that the availability of adequate charging infrastructure is vital and offers a variety
of grant funding schemes to support recharging infrastructure in motorists’ homes,
workplaces and on residential streets. The Charging Infrastructure Investment Fund
(CIIF), funded with £200m of new Government investment and matched by £200m from private
investors, will accelerate the roll-out of charging infrastructure and enable thousands
more publicly accessible chargepoints. The full range of steps that the Government
is taking was set out in the Road To Zero Strategy in July 2018.</p>
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