Clean Drivers To Sport Green Numberplates
The title of this post is the same as that as an article on page 11 of today’s Sunday Times.
The first paragraph gives a few more details.
Electric and hydrogen-powered cars, vans and taxis may be awarded green numberplates in a public display of virtue.Chris Grayling, the transport secretary, said giving clean vehicles a “green badge of honour” was a “brilliant way of helping increase awareness” ans “might just encourage people to think about” getting one themselves.
I think it’s a good idea and apparently Norway, Canada and China have green plates.
I like it as it would be easier to spot a battery taxi, which are so much nicer than the older models.
Jesse Norman, a junior Government minister is also thinking about tax breaks for e-Bikes and for ecargobikes for “last mile” deliveries.
The Anonymous Widower 
Sounds a great idea. I am looking at the idea of an ebike – I have poor balance, so it would be a 3 wheeler – for shorter trips under about 3 or 4 miles. Since cancer diagnosis and the dealing with symptoms, such as breathlessness and low folate level etc, I should be back to being able to cycle that distance – I am already back to nearly 2 miles on static bike. Electric charging points for electric cars aren’t very plentiful around here at present. And we don’t have a driveway as we live on a main road, so could charge at home easily.
Comment by nosnikrapzil | September 9, 2018 |
I think the North believes that electric vehicles are only for soppy Southerners!
Do you get B12 injections?
Comment by AnonW | September 9, 2018 |