Air Monitoring
More people improving UK air quality with green car purchases
Jan 28 2011
Earlier this week, a survey by Glass's revealed that the number of car buyers considering a green vehicle was 53 per cent in December last year.
This is a sharp rise from nine per cent of those who were asked the same question in July 2010.
Andy Carroll, managing director at Glass's, said: "This is a phenomenal increase in a very short space of time and represents a fast-growing acceptance of the emergence of plug-in hybrid and electric vehicles into the mass market."
The rise in the number of people who would consider buying a hybrid or battery electric car is likely to be the result of the government's electric vehicle plug-in car grant, which was launched to help improve the air quality of the UK.
This funding gives car buyers up to £5,000 off the cost of one of nine vehicles that are eligible for the grant and it was rolled out on January 1st 2011.
Last month, Glass's revealed that 53 per cent of people thought electric cars were the "future of motoring".
Posted by Joseph Hutton
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