http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/dec/04/gwiz-green-car-sales-slump
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a total of just 156 electric cars were sold in the UK from January to October 2008, compared with 374 for the same period last year. The vast majority of the sales (and the 58% slump) are G-Wiz cars, made by Indian car company Reva.
Richard Bremner, editor of cleangreencars.co.uk, who unearthed the electric car sales figures, said: "People have maybe woken up to the fact that the electric vehicles that have been offered to date, they're not hugely appealing other than for their green credentials and they're only suitable for short journeys around town."
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Vicky Wyatt, Greenpeace transport campaigner said the sales car sales slump was worrying. "Electric cars have a key role to play in tackling climate change as well as reducing our dependence on foreign oil supplies.
"Sales should be going through the roof, and the fact that they are declining points to a failure on the part of government and manufacturers to make them more attractive to motorists in the UK."
She said the government should introduce lower road tax and excise duty, free parking, closed-loop battery recycling and urban plug in points.
So in other words, they should subsidize and bailout the electric car industry. It's the government's fault these things aren't selling...
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a total of just 156 electric cars were sold in the UK from January to October 2008, compared with 374 for the same period last year. The vast majority of the sales (and the 58% slump) are G-Wiz cars, made by Indian car company Reva.
Richard Bremner, editor of cleangreencars.co.uk, who unearthed the electric car sales figures, said: "People have maybe woken up to the fact that the electric vehicles that have been offered to date, they're not hugely appealing other than for their green credentials and they're only suitable for short journeys around town."
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Vicky Wyatt, Greenpeace transport campaigner said the sales car sales slump was worrying. "Electric cars have a key role to play in tackling climate change as well as reducing our dependence on foreign oil supplies.
"Sales should be going through the roof, and the fact that they are declining points to a failure on the part of government and manufacturers to make them more attractive to motorists in the UK."
She said the government should introduce lower road tax and excise duty, free parking, closed-loop battery recycling and urban plug in points.
So in other words, they should subsidize and bailout the electric car industry. It's the government's fault these things aren't selling...
