Electric Car News

Some bad news this time: the electric car subsidy announced in 2008 has been dwarfed by the budget cuts. It will still be £5000 off when you buy a new electric car but the number of available subsidies has been cut from proposed 46,000 to meagre 8600.

It is believed that allegedly a huge role in this decision has been played by the lobbyists of the established car makers and possibly the oil companies. There are many people who want to keep the electric cars within a very limited market.

This comes as a shocker, still, considering that the electric cars are due for a very slow start-up, those 8600 subsidies should last us well into 2012.

There are very few electric cars that will be available for sale in the UK from January 2011. Nissan Leaf will probably be the most obvious choice. Then there are the two electric cars that have passed a crash test – Th!nk City and Tesla Roadster, the latter being way too pricey for peoples’ reach. Who else will make it in time for the subsidy? Possibly the Mitsubishi i MIEV, touted the most expensive electric car in the world.

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