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The UK Vehicle scrappage scheme (also Vehicle discount scheme and Car Scrappage Scheme) is a vehicle scrappage scheme that was introduced in the 2009 United Kingdom Budget to encourage UK citizens to purchase a new car or van and scrap an old one that they have owned for more than 12 months. The scheme was extended in September 2009 and again in February 2010 and it finished at the end of March 2010. In February 2010 a separate Plug-in Car Grant to provide £5,000 towards the cost of electric vehicles was announced and it began in January 2011.〔https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/plug-in-car-grant〕 ==Overview== The initial scheme, costing the government £300m was introduced in 2009 to support the replacement of 300,000 cars purchased. The government agreed to provide a £1,000 payment towards the purchase of a new car ordered from participating manufacturers after 23 April 2009 and first registered on or after 16 May 2009.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=What’s It All About? )〕 to UK citizens who also scrap a car that they have owned for more than 12 months and which was older than 10 years. and manufactures agreed to also provide £1,000 off the list price. Environmental groups were 'angered' that the scheme was not limited to economical cars. The RAC Foundation said that many scrapped cars would be in good condition and an estimated 90% of cars purchased under the scheme would be imported. Many cars are already discounted from list price so the saving to purchasers is in reality less than £2,000.〔 The Institute for Fiscal Studies criticised the scheme saying that:-〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Some initial reactions to Budget 2009 )〕 *A reduction of emissions per mile from newer cars would be offset by new vehicles being driven more *That there would be significant environmental costs associated with the production of vehicles *As fiscal stimulus it will only benefit one industry. *Many new cars are not produced in Britain though some foreign made vehicles will contain British components. *A larger part of the subsidy to go to replacements that would have occurred anyway. *It will mean that fewer sales will occur after the economy has picked up. Cars sales increased during the scheme and figures for February 2010 were 26% higher than the previous year. There were concerns that sales would reduce after the end of the scheme and the end of the reduced vat rate of 15%. The average emissions of new cars sold during the scheme dropped 5.4% from year before . In March 2010 What Car magazine claimed that the scheme had been a 'smoke-screen' behind which manufactures increased prices and that "some of the price rises () take your breath away".〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Car scrappage scheme used to drive up prices )〕 In February 2010 the government announced a £230m 'Plug-in car Grant' scheme to provide a £5,000 grant towards the purchase of plug-in electric cars - the scheme will start in January 2011 and a separate scheme, 'Plugged-In Places' will provide some 11,000 charging points in selected cities over the next three years. There was also talk of a scrappage scheme for old radios ahead of the planned Analogue switch-off. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Vehicle scrappage scheme」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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