Renault welcomes today’s Government pronouncement that electric cars will benefit from grants worth 25% of the purchase cost, equal to a maximum of £5,000, for an primary period of January 2011 until March 2012.
Today’s news was greeted with great enthusiasm by Renault UK’s new Managing Director, Thierry Sybord. “We’re in no doubtthat our range of 100% electric cars and Renault vans are going to delightto a wide cross-section of private individual and business clients in their own right, with an exciting mixture of modernization, style and technology. Now, with this financial enticement in place, their affordability and lesser running costs craft the financial argument for electric vehicles, compared to conventional fossil-fuelled vehicles, as compelling as their environmental one. On account ofthis morning’s news, we are even more motivated about encouraging as many people as possible to consider using electric vehicles to cut down vehicle emissions, or as we utter here at Renault, ‘Drive the Change’.
Following the unveiling of no less than four conspicuous concepts at the Frankfurt Motor Show in September 2009, Renault’s charge into the zero-emission* electric vehicle arena starts in Europe in mid-2011. The French brand’s assault commenceswith an initial four-model Z.E. (Zero Emission) family, intendedto be an affordable, mass-market proposition. The first of its innovative, fully~-electric vehicles will be a Kangoo Van. In 2012, it will be joined in the UK by the Fluence four-door saloon, a town vehicle derived from the two-seater Twizy notion and a five-door supermini.
Pre-booking for the Fluence and Kangoo Van Z.E. models is already released. For extra particularson both, together with full facets on Renault’s ‘Zero Emission Vehicles and van leasing plans please visit Swiss Leasing