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‘Reform grant regimes to boost sales of low carbon buses’

BUSES

Andrew Forster
11 July 2014
Electric buses: grant funding availability should be continuous, instead of being allocated through occasional competitions
Electric buses: grant funding availability should be continuous, instead of being allocated through occasional competitions

 

A big shake-up to bus grant regimes across the UK is being recommended to encourage operators to purchase low carbon vehicles.

A report commissioned by the Low Carbon Vehicle Partnership, a public/private partnership mainly funded by the DfT, proposes a capital grant for low carbon emission buses (LCEBs) based on a sliding scale of emissions. And it suggests reforms to Bus Service Operators Grant (BSOG), with the existing per kilometre grant payment uplift for LCEBs also paid on a sliding scale...

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