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The UK Government is trying to get Britain to cut down on carbon emissions over the next few years. In April 2009 they introduced a £5,000 incentive to potential buyers, encouraging them to purchase electrical cars and reduce their carbon footprint. To make this possible, they have also allocated £250 million towards promoting electric cars.

Transport and environmental groups highlighted the need for a plan to roll out this new initiative. Transport secretary Geoff Hoon commented that “Cutting road transport CO2 emissions is a key element to tackling climate change. “Less than 0.1% of the UK’s 26 million cars are electric, so there is a huge untapped potential to reduce emissions.”

The Government has put aside some money for the scheme which includes a whopping £20million worth of investment across the UK for electrical charging points for the cars. This new push for economical cars will also allow 200 motorists to trial the electric cars and give their feedback to the Government.

Although the alternative economical option of electrical cars for driving may sound attractive, there are several issues to consider across a large scale. For example, the car can only run 40 miles before it needs a re-charge. The car could take several hours to charge before it’s ready to go on the road again and the fact that they can be fairly small.

Other things to consider include cost, because even with the huge investment made by the Government to roll this out, the cost of an electrical car can still be quite high. The AA president Edmund King argues that although there is the potential to revolutionise the UKs transport system across the cities, the small announcements are not enough and something needs to be done on a larger scale.

It was also argued that there is no point having one country’s Government push for more economical transport because manufacturing works on a global scale not a local scale. Finally, although people may be moving towards a low-carbon lifestyle, it may not be before 2050 that there is a mass transport system consisting of electrical cars that can hopefully travel more than 40 miles before needing a recharge and be fit for city driving as well as long distance journeys.

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