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£1.5bn package announced to help Britain switch to electric vehicles
The UK government is tripling the Electric Car Grant to £1.5 billion to boost EV adoption and domestic critical minerals production, aiding 35,000 drivers so far, government data shows.
- The government is expected to announce an extra £1.3 billion in funding for the Electric Car Grant scheme at next week's Budget to encourage the use of electric vehicles .
- The scheme has already helped 35,000 people switch to EVs, and there will also be money allocated to create more charging points across the UK.
- A consultation on helping people without driveways to charge their EVs is also expected in the Budget, but EV owners could face a new tax in the form of a pay-per-mile charge in the future.
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Britain's government is expected to introduce a 1.5 billion pound ($2 billion) package to accelerate a switch to electric vehicles, it said, including an extra 1.3 billion pounds for a grant scheme to buy new electric cars.
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