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Auto Car
2 days ago
- Automotive
- Auto Car
Up to £10k off EVs as makers slash prices to beat new grant
Car makers from Hyundai to Volvo are offering up to £3750 off new electric cars as they wait for the arrival of the UK government's new Electric Car Grant (ECG). Announced earlier this month, the ECG has been introduced as a way of stimulating EV sales in the UK, following a period of stagnation since the previous government's Plug-in Car Grant (PiCG) was pulled in 2022. The new ECG, backed by £650 million of government funding, will yield a discount for qualifying cars of either £1500 or £3750, depending on their environmental impact. To qualify, car manufacturers themselves must meet science-backed emissions targets, while the individual model lines must start at below £37,000 in entry-level trim. Which discount a model receives is determined by how much CO2 is emitted in an EV's production, assessing the energy used in vehicle assembly as well as battery manufacturing. Threshold levels have yet to be made public. While any manufacturer can apply for their car to be included in the scheme, it's thought that, due to this criteria, cars produced in Asian countries, such as China, South Korea and Japan, will not be eligible for the ECG. This would include cars from Hyundai, MG and GMW – all three of which have already launched their own equivalent discounts, likely pre-empting that their cars will be denied access to the ECG. Below are the discounts already being offered by car makers as they await the results of the ECG applications. Alfa Romeo The Alfa Romeo Junior Elettrica – the Italian marque's first EV – can now be had with £1500 off its list price. This leaves the Polish-made compact crossover retailing for £32,405. GWM Chinese firm Great Wall Motor has launched a £3750 grant for the Ora 03 hatchback. The MG 4 EV rival, which was previously named the Funky Cat, now costs just £21,245. Hyundai Hyundai is matching the government's incoming ECG by offering a discount of £3750 on its new Inster hatchback, bringing it down in price to £19,755. The prices of all its other EVs – such as the Ioniq 5, Ioniq 6 and Kona Electric – have been slashed by £1500.
BBC News
2 days ago
- General
- BBC News
New nursery recommended for Coventry school despite objections
Plans for a new nursery next to a Coventry school are being recommended for approval, despite more than 30 nursery, which would provide 15 places, is planned for a former caretaker's house next to Stoke Primary School in Briton Road, Barras school's application, which will be decided at a city council planning meeting on Thursday, said the conversion would be funded by a £65,000 government grant to increase nursery centre around parking on nearby streets, and other effects on residents caused by the proposed opening hours of 07:00 to 17:00. The school said the house had been unoccupied for more than three years, and had only been used for occasional meetings since.A report to members of the planning committee said the scheme had been referred to them because of the objections, gathered on a petition by a local planning officers assessed that the conversion would not have a "significant impact upon neighbour amenity or highway safety".They have recommended that it be approved. Follow BBC Coventry & Warwickshire on BBC Sounds, Facebook, X and Instagram.
Auto Express
21-07-2025
- Automotive
- Auto Express
More Chinese EV price cuts as MG responds to EV grant confusion
The Government's announcement that buyers of pure-electric cars priced under £37,000 could receive a grant worth up to £3,750 has been met with plenty of confusion. To help clear things up and entice buyers even more, MG has announced it will give all private buyers of the MG4 and MGS5 EV its own £1,500 'grant'. That's in addition to whatever comes from the official Electric Car Grant. Advertisement - Article continues below David Allison, Head of Product and Planning for MG Motor UK, told Auto Express that customers had been 'put off' by the grant thanks to a lack of clarity over which cars meet the eligibility criteria and if a car's price tag would be lowered to dip under the £37,000 grant ceiling in the near future. MG is yet to find out if its Chinese-built MG4 and MGS5 EV will be able to meet the sustainability criteria to qualify for the UK Government's grant - whether that's the maximum £3,750 or the second tier £1,500 figure. However, MG has said it is still in the 'process of securing any of the Government-backed support which has been made available'. As a reminder, the MG4 sits under the £37,000 grant cut-off for the Electric Car Grant, coming in at £26,995 in SE specification and topping out at £36,495 in Trophy Extended Range form. The MGS5 EV in SE trim is priced from £28,495 and goes up to £33,495 for the Trophy Long Range. Guy Pigounakis, Commercial Director for MG Motor UK said, 'MG has been a key contributor to the EV sector. Today's announcement underlines this commitment and in addition to this, we will also seek to work constructively with the Government to further increase the sale of EVs.' MG also said the Cyberster roadster (which starts from £54,995) would not be a part of its £1,500 discount scheme and neither would the incoming IM5 and IM6 models. Since 2019 MG has been the fifth most popular EV brand with car buyers in the UK. A total of 95,000 MG electric cars have found homes. MG is not the first brand to preemptively offer its own electric car 'grant' in the wake of the official Government announcement. Leapmotor and Ora are taking similar measures to circumvent any confusion buyers might be feeling around the cars that will or will not qualify for the scheme. Did you know you can sell your car through Auto Express ? We'll help you get a great price and find a great deal on a new car, too .
The Sun
18-07-2025
- Automotive
- The Sun
Eco-mental Labour must've let Diane Abbott do maths on EV plan – it'll cost BILLIONS while families struggle to buy food
IN A desperate bid to make Britain full of light breezes and scented pine freshness, the Government has announced that if you buy an electrical car, they will give you a chunky £3,750. But not if you buy a Tesla. 10 Why? Ah well, that's simple. The Labourites want to be fully eco-mental of course, but not if it means putting money into the pocket of Elon Musk. Because he's the anti-Christ. He helped put Donald Trump in the White House. He made a Nazi salute. So yes, they want to be green but not if it means helping that far-right bastard. The £3,750 grant is only available if you buy an electrical car that costs less than £37,000. Teslas start at £39,000. If you buy one of those, you're on your own sunshine. There is, however, more to this story than meets the eye. We are told that the cost of this scheme is going to be £650million. But who did the maths? Diane Abbott? Because they don't make sense – £650million is only enough to pay the grants for 173,333 cars. And that's about half the number of EVs sold in the UK last year. The Government must know this. They have access to Google, and they have calculators on their phones. So they must know that if this scheme runs for a while, it'll end up costing billions. And how can they justify that? How can they say they have no money to mend potholes or repair schools or keep the Navy going? But they do have enough to help someone buy some electrical crap from China. Staggering drone vid shows vast Chinese EV mega factory bigger than a CITY with its own football stadium Don't they see what they're doing? They're actually paying us to send our money to Beijing. It gets worse. They are prepared to subsidise people who want to move around but as we have seen in the last year, they are absolutely not prepared to subsidise the food you eat. There is no government money for farmers. All of the grants and the subsidies that were introduced back in the last century to make sure that even the poorest people in society could afford to feed their families are systematically being taken away. Rachel Reeves tells us she has to do this because the coffers are empty. And yet there are billions on offer for people who need transport so they can pick up their benefits more easily. ARMY PROBE NOT ON THERE'S a lot to be depressed about at the moment, but I think the thing that's getting me down most of all is the plan to investigate former soldiers who served in Northern Ireland to see if they shot someone that perhaps they shouldn't. There is to be no investigation into the yobboes who were throwing petrol bombs at them or blowing up buildings in the UK. The thugs who shot Private Tony Harrison, a paratrooper from London five times in the back in 1991 while watching television with his girlfriend. No one will be bringing them to trial. The British government is only interested in chasing British soldiers. We're told by Starmer 's Stasi army of human rights lawyers that the chance of a conviction is very small. But very small isn't the same thing as 'impossible' is it. So imagine. You're a former soldier. You've now retired and are spending your old age, tending to your roses and reflecting on a life well led. A life where you were prepared to sacrifice yourself for the good of the country and the people in it. And now you've been told that a secret army of lefties is going to be looking into your activities from when you were in your twenties and that if anything untoward comes to light, you'll have to go to prison. It sickens me. I'm not sure our court system is working very well at the moment. 10 Because if you cut down a tree and in so doing slightly damage a wall, you get four years plus change. But if you stagger out of a Wetherspoons pub and punch a policemanwoman in the face, you get fined £160. JOHN'S AXING A PUZZLE FUNNY isn't it how Top Gear was always seen as the bad boy of the BBC. Every week, we'd be in the papers for doing something wrong or saying something inappropriate. And as a result, we were always being carpeted by bosses who told us to sit up straight and clean our teeth and behave ourselves. Ha. It now turns out that compared to every other show on the Beeb, we were saints. But that said, I am a bit worried about this John Torode chap from MasterChef. Because he seems to have been sacked for an offence even though no one can quite say what the offence was. He's been told that at a private party seven or eight years ago, he sang a song which someone thought was racist and that as a result, he has to go. Who reported him? Dunno. Was there any context? No one's saying. BOTTLE JOB ON 'MILK' BOFFINS advising the Government have announced that there's a problem with vegan milk. Well yes. It's not milk. But there's more to it than that. They say it must be stuffed full of chemicals if it's going to be good for us. And that soya milk is potentially harmful – they warn it may give young children something called Kawasaki Disease which will crack their lips and give them a fever. So what will our vegetarian leader do about this do we think? Reverse his thinking and on the way home tonight, stop off for a Big Mac and a shake? Doubt it. I suspect he'll throw the report in the bin, and immediately import another avocado from Ecuador. IT'S ALL A BIT LIKE 1976 . . . WITH NO ESCAPE FROM REALITY 10 10 BACK in 1976, there was such a long spell of hot, dry weather that hosepipe bans became necessary. And there was a Labour government in power who were busy making a complete mess of everything. The economy was tanking. Strikes were rife. And the Prime Minister was claiming that he'd inherited all the problems from the Tories. Meanwhile, there were calls for the party to lurch to the left and in the middle of it all, the country had to go to the International Monetary Fund and take out what at the time was the biggest loan the world had ever seen. We were called, with good reason, the sick man of Europe. And now let's spool forward to 2025. The year so far as been so hot and dry that a hosepipe ban is in force across large parts of the country. And there's a Labour government in power that's tanking the economy and blaming the mess it's making on the Tories. Many are saying we are the sick man of Europe, and that soon we will have to go cap in hand to the IMF. The only difference between then and now is that then, we had some decent music to entertain us. Bohemian Rhapsody for example. And we were all eventually rescued by Mrs Thatcher, who told us we had to take our medicine and turned us into an economic powerhouse. Today, we have Pink Pony Club and a promise that in the next election, a bunch of people who aren't old enough to drink in a pub and get all their information from TikTok will be allowed to vote in the General Election. Which virtually guarantees the nightmare is here to stay.
CTV News
27-06-2025
- General
- CTV News
Clinton pool to become green space
Last summer, Central Huron council voted to fill in the pool but held off in response to public pressure. Officials in Clinton say the community's outdoor pool will not re-open. It was closed in 2022 after falling into disrepair. Last summer, Central Huron council voted to fill in the pool but held off in response to public pressure. Officials had applied for a government grant to cover the $5 million needed, but they now say that grant was denied so the pool will be filled in and returned to green space.
