Government scrappage scheme a success?

Figures released this week show that the Government’s scrappage scheme, brought in to stimulate the ailing car production market, has been a success with 154,297 cars bought since it was introduced earlier this year. And, pleasingly, the data also shows that the scheme has led to a number of greener vehicles being purchased.

Data also revealed that new cars bought under the scheme have 25% lower CO2 emissions than the cars that have been scrapped. While this figure could have been predicted, as cars scrapped were at least 10 years old and therefore would have had significantly higher emissions than newer models on the market, it does seem to be encouraging consumers to invest in greener vehicles.

But will encouraging people to buy cars, whether they are low emission or not, mean a low emission future for the country? Here at WhizzGo, we are trying to take cars off the road by encouraging an alternative to private car use and we’ve always believed that rather than trying to save the car production market as a whole, they should invest in new technologies that could see a brighter future for the UK’s transport infrastructure as a whole.