Low income and isolated households need help to access electric car market

The Government has long mooted the ambition of one million electric vehicles on the road by 2030, but the purchase cost remains prohibitively high for such vehicles.

The Government needs to specifically step up efforts to allow hard-pressed families to change over to electric vehicles (EVs) if so-called 'carbon budgets' targets are to be met.

That is according to an EV expert, who echoed the Climate Change Advisory Council's technical report accompanying its successive five-year carbon budget proposals to reduce emissions.