Cash offer to swap polluting vehicles for ebikes

Michael Matheson with Ben Cooper, Kinetics, and Ellie Grebenik, Vitality Saving Belief (pic: Scottish Authorities)

Micro enterprise house owners and commuters are being provided money to purchase a bicycle in the event that they commerce of their gas-guzzling automobiles.

The Scottish Authorities has launched the Low Emission Zone (LEZ) Mobility Fund, providing money incentives and Journey Higher vouchers, if “non-compliant” automobiles are faraway from Scotland’s roads.

Administered by Vitality Saving Belief, this programme is means-tested and affords assist to these most impacted.

It gives people and micro-businesses with monetary help to journey extra sustainably and adjust to forthcoming measures to enhance air high quality and defend public well being.

The £2 million fund gives households with a grant of £2,000 to take away a automobile, or as much as two £500 mobility grants or Journey Higher vouchers to buy a motorcycle, e-bike or public transport voucher.

For micro-businesses, the fund gives a flat incentive of £2,500 per automotive or van to take away a non-compliant automobile, exchange it with a compliant automobile, or to put money into an alternate mode of transport comparable to an e-cargo bike.

As well as, £1 million is once more being made out there in 2020/21 to help the retrofitting of sunshine items automobiles, heavy items automobiles and taxis via the LEZ Retrofitting Fund for micro-businesses.

Collectively, these two funding steams characterize the Low Emission Zone Assist Fund – and each are delivered via Vitality Saving Belief.

This funding helps the Programme for Authorities dedication to restart work on LEZs and helps earlier commitments to assist those that may have essentially the most issue in making the transition to the introduction of LEZs.

Transport Secretary Michael Matheson stated: “The LEZ Mobility Fund will present fast help to households and companies which are most impacted by the anticipated emission requirements – and that shall be enforced someday after 2022.

“By means of this help, we’re enhancing air high quality prematurely of the introduction of LEZs.

“We’re encouraging the disposal of non-compliant automobiles and responding to the local weather emergency, by encouraging a shift to extra sustainable types of journey inside our cities via new Journey Higher vouchers.

“For taxi drivers or small companies that want to retrofit current automobiles, as a way to adjust to forthcoming emissions requirements, help stays out there.

“I’d encourage everybody to consider how Low Emission Zones might have an effect on them and to go to www.lowemissionzones.scot for the newest info.”

Ellie Grebenik, senior programme supervisor at Vitality Saving Belief stated: “The event of low emission zones is important to scale back street transport air pollution, enhance air high quality throughout city areas, improve folks’s well being and defend our surroundings.”

Vitality Saving Belief’s web site has full info and situations referring to the Mobility Fund.

Info on eligibility relating to the Mobility Fund is on the market on Vitality Saving Belief’s web site.