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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Michael Savage and Jon Ungoed-Thomas

Cheaper loans on table to urge UK motorists to EVs, plus cuts in fines for firms

The new Mini Cooper Electric on the production line at the BMW Mini plant at Cowley in Oxford.
The new Mini Cooper Electric on the production line at the BMW Mini plant at Cowley in Oxford. Photograph: Joe Giddens/PA

There is “no route to net zero” that ignores the real concerns of businesses, a cabinet minister has warned, as the government prepares to reduce financial penalties handed to carmakers not selling enough electric cars.

Ministers are also looking at how cheaper loans could be introduced to help people buy an electric vehicle (EV), after a wave of job losses and closures in which carmakers blamed the onerous fines they were facing.

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