RENAULT UK WELCOMES GOVERNMENT FINANCIAL SUPPORT FOR ELECTRIC VEHICLES

Renault welcomes this morning’s Government pronouncement that electric cars will profit from grants worth 25% of the purchase cost, up to a upper limitof £5,000, for an opening time of January 2011 until March 2012.

Today’s news was welcomed with considerable enthusiasm by Renault UK’s new Managing Director, Thierry Sybord. “We’re in no doubtthat our range of 100% electric cars and Renault vans are bound to gratifyto a wide cross-section of private individual and business customers in their own right, with an exciting combination of modernization, style and technology. Now, with this financial enticement in place, their affordability and lower running costs craft the financial argument for electric vehicles, weighed against conventional fossil-fuelled vehicles, as compelling as their environmental one. On account ofthis morning’s news, we are even more motivated about encouraging as many people as possible to consider using electric vehicles to drive down vehicle emissions, or as we utter here at Renault, ‘Drive the Change’.

Following the unveiling of no less than four striking concepts at the Frankfurt Motor Show in September 2009, Renault’s charge into the zero-emission* electric vehicle arena begins in Europe in mid-2011. The French brand’s assault commenceswith an initial four-model Z.E. (Zero Emission) family, designed to be an affordable, mass-market plan. The first of its innovative, totally~-electric vehicles will be a Kangoo Van. In 2012, it will be joined in the UK by the Fluence four-door saloon, a city vehicle derived from the two-seater Twizy perception and a five-door supermini.

Pre-booking for the Fluence and Kangoo Van Z.E. models is already open. For extra particularson both, plus full details on Renault’s ‘Zero Emission Vehicles and van leasing plans please visit Swiss Leasing

 

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