News Archives - July 2010

Electric car grant fund capped at £43m

The £5,000 grant for buyers of electric cars, which seemed under threat when business secretary, Vince Cable, failed to mention it in the recent emergency budget, will go ahead in January 2011.

The taxing problem of cows, cars and climate change

The need to reduce the amount of gas emitted each day by cattle is more than simply a question of good farmyard etiquette; the greenhouse effect of methane emitted collectively by this country’s 10 million cows is equivalent to the CO2 produced by driving one third of a billion miles by car.