{"id":1964,"date":"2015-04-23T16:27:22","date_gmt":"2015-04-23T16:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/?p=1964"},"modified":"2015-04-23T16:27:22","modified_gmt":"2015-04-23T16:27:22","slug":"record-number-uk-car-buyers-opting-ulevs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/record-number-uk-car-buyers-opting-ulevs\/","title":{"rendered":"Record number of UK car buyers opting for ULEVs"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\">A record number of UK car buyers are opting to reduce their fuel bills by choosing ultra-low emission vehicles (ULEVs), according to research by GO Ultra Low.<\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Latest registration figures from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) reveal that more than 41% of all alternatively-fuelled cars registered in the first quarter of 2015 qualified for the government\u2019s plug-in car grant \u2013 up from 13% over the same period in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>In the first quarter of 2015, 8,573 passenger vehicles with CO2 emissions lower than 75g\/km were registered \u2013 a year-on-year increase of 386%.<\/p>\n<p>There has also been\u00a0a 421% increase in fleet and business ULEV volumes in the quarter.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Head of Go Ultra Low, a joint initiative by government and the UK automotive industry, Hetal Shah said: \u201cThe latest plug-in vehicle uptake figures prove that ultra-low emission cars and vans make sense for both private and business users, especially with the potential for fuel costs as low as 2p a mile and reduced whole life running costs.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A record number of UK car buyers are opting to <a class=\"moretag btn btn-primary\" href=\"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/record-number-uk-car-buyers-opting-ulevs\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1965,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[35,90],"class_list":["post-1964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-news","tag-smmt","tag-ulevs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.lnetdev.uk\/thevra2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}