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If the government offered £2000 to get rid of your diesel car to replace it with a new, hybrid or electric vehicle would you be interested?
Should be an option for non diesel owners.
Would this contribution (if it is approved) only apply to those with a Motobility vehicle or to anyone who is disabled and has purchased a diesel car independently or to the general public?
None of the plans have been finalised yet but if they do go ahead then they would hopefully apply to everybody.
Thanks.
I dont drive !!
Have not got a car
Who came up with that quesjun as i buy my own car and it is very cheap to run wich is a 1.6 hdi citroen 7 seater my son got a 7 seater and it is very expensive to run and his is a 1.4 petrol
Is this something the government are planning? £2k would not be enough to buy any new car and as we dont have enough savings or income to add the (probably) extra £6k needed, its not a realistic option for us!
It's one of the ideas that they've floated to see what people think. Whether it'll make it into their final plans or not, we don't know yet.
I need a 4x4 because of where I live so electric cars need to be developed more. I have a diesel car at the moment but hope to change it soon. Bought it when government said it was better for air pollution!!!!!😡😡😡😡
I bought my car 3 years ago for £17,000. that would be a loss of £5,000 a year.
Pete loves his car which is diesel and very reliable. Not enough recharging points for electric cars so not very convenient. We own our car too. Xxxxx
The way I see it the government caused this problem buy. Lower tax breaks for Diesel. Car.owners It as to be fixed. Why. Do not have better public. Transport. Better. Regular. Good service trains. Then people. Might. Not want to own a. Car. Diesel. Are filthy engines. It never made sense. To put them in cars they for. Pulling power. Lorries which should be banned. From. Inner. Cities. They should be allowed. To allocated depots. Fortranfer to. Electric. Delivery. Vehicles. As. For. Grant £2000 for get inrid of. Diesel. Car I suppose it depends. On how much your diesel is worth. But. Every. Diesel owner. Owes to. There kids. And there kid kids . It's. Terriable the air.in. Londonalso more trees. Please. And No more. Diesels. .buy the way. I have a LPG. Car . That as a third less. Emissions. Then a petrol. Car Thank you. Bye. Paul.
You have missed out the fact that lots of people can't have an electric car as they have nowhere to charge it. This may be because they live in an area with no parking outside their house or they live in a flat. Electric/ hybrid vehicles are only OK if you have somewhere to charge them
£2k isn't much toward the cost of a new electric car. This is all about raising taxes and justifying their ludicrous plans for daily city entry taxes on historically promoted diesels... And that's all about funding the runaway costs of their public sector pensions.
I used to have a diesel car you could legally run on Vegetable Oil... wish I'd have kept it.. lol
Wouldn't buy a new one but would buy an older one.
There has been talk of having to pay a daily charge for diesel users to drive on the roads..
We have a 2 year old car. We paid a lot of money to buy the eco friendly diesel model and feel let down by the government.
I have a petrol car, my husband an old diesel bought when we were encouraged to do so! We live in a rural area with no charging points, poor bus srevice, so a car is essential to get anywhere from our village. Peopke like us cannot walk as an alternative either!
I see no one has mentioned diesel trains they run all day and night with large engines I wonder if anyone can give any details of their omissions or will they be allowed just to carry on as they are if lorries and taxis are to be included then it just will not be fair to exclude trains
This is an incentive to remove damaging diesel particulates and should be applauded. At the same time it will also reduce harmful nitrous emmissions. Diesel engines are much worse for this. Unfortunately the only measure for road tax is CO2 whcih make diesel engines look better. BLF should inlude in its campaign for clean air, more appropriate emmissions measurement, and tax the worst polluters accordingly
£2000 was the amount paid for scrappage of old vehicles.. many of which were only worth a couple of hundred quid. The French government recently paid £8,500 scrappage in diesels and were surprised at the result. They thought that hybrids would be the people's choice but they mostly bought electric.
motability cars don't belong to the driver. They belong to the motability company. Therefore it will be up to Motability to negotiate any compensation from the government for scrapping diesel cars and also to replace diesel motability cars with petrol or electric ones. This could be a logistical nightmare.
i am not an engineer, but i wonder is it not possible to retrofit something on the engines to either further reduce particulates or something...
i started getting diesal on the recommendation of the gov. loved them as they were so much cheaper than petrol and have continued. now i am told this advice was a mistake even tho officially my diesal is an "ultra low emissions vehicle"; so low i don't pay car tax on it.
if i buy into this scheme (i can't as i live in flats with no charging point) but if... who in their right mind will buy my diesal off me??
i am confused and angry.
My opinion is that the government promoted diesel cars saying environment would be cleaner more efficient. How wrong they were . I have my own petrol car and a petrol motorbike both run efficiently enough. There is not enough charge points for electric cars in my area .
A £2000 fund for a new car is not enough by any means xx
Plant 1 or more trees instead will be both short & long-term better, because trees convert the undesirable CO2 gas back into pure oxygen. I do agree that diesel vehicles need phasing out soon in town centres.
Already gone over the Hybrid. Best thing ever. Already saved £2000 a year on petrol. Also my COPD was caused by air pollution, so it as to change otherwise more people will suffer from it.
