EVs Might Be Given Green Number Plates To Boost Sales
Whether it’s a carefully posed Instagram post involving a reusable coffee cup or a Facebook post about a switch to veganism, there seems to be a growing trend of people wanting to publicise the good deeds they’re doing to help the environment.
But what about when someone purchases an electric car? Is driving around in near silence enough a display of one’s virtuousness? Apparently not.
The UK government’s Department for Transport and the Office for Low Emission Vehicles are currently mulling over the idea of giving low-emissions vehicles green number plates. The idea is it’ll act as a “badge of honour” to show other road users and whoever’s walking past your driveway just how much of a lovely human being you are.
According to UK Transport Secretary Chris Grayling, the move should “increase awareness of their [low-emissions vehicles] growing popularity in the UK, and might just encourage people to think about how one could fit into their own travel routine”. Better infrastructure might help too, although the government has also pledged to ramp up investment in the less than the country’s less than brilliant charging network.
A public consultation will be launched to determine reception to the idea, and also determine how exactly the plates might look. At this stage, it’s not clear which vehicles would be covered by the move, although it wouldn’t be a surprise to see plug-in hybrids included.
Similar schemes are already in operation elsewhere in the world. In 2016 part-green plates for ‘New Energy vehicles’ were launched in parts of China, while alternatively-fueled cars in Norway have two-letter prefixes to denote what powers them. Will the UK follow suit? We’ll have to wait and see.
Growing up on a diet of World Rally Championship highlights and lengthy Gran Turismo 2 sessions, a life in cars was as good as inevitable for Matt.
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Might look ugly tho
Would you like a green Plate to go with your new slowmobile?
So now diesel will get black plates with skulls on the sides and a “ecokiller” sticker on the windscreen
Black plates with skulls? Yo I’d have that.
No they’d have the sticker saying “moron”
Also UK government’s Department for transport
As if we need another example of how f*ing incompetent the Tory government is. I can guarantee it’s because the government doesn’t want to fund the electrification of Northern rail lines.
If this comes in, you’ll be able to go online and get green plates made for your V8 Mustang
Or your EV mustang rather, since that’s gonna be a thing soon lol
Whether it’s a carefully posed Instagram post involving a reusable coffee cup or a Facebook post about a switch to veganism, there seems to be a growing trend of people wanting to publicise the good deeds they’re doing to help the environment.
AKA: “Virtue Signalling”. Appear like you’re doing good on social media because your life is a bit s**t. In reality? Doing nothing of substance. It’s like how you seem to see an endless string of new vegans on twitter, bolstered by headlines in the Daily Fail about a 25% jump in people buying meat substitutes, yet actual meat consumption is up 3% because all people are doing is swapping sausages for fish because they gave up the do-gooder sctick after a month. Womp Womp.
We have green plates in Hungary since 2015.
Well its a better plan than “Make the lives of those who still drive petrol cars a living hell.”
My Polo does 60 MPG can I get a colour for being fuel efficient lol
No you can get a sticker saying “pathetic” tho
How about actually giving intensives as apposed to pretending too and then charging owners a fortune in tax once year one is over. Goodbye Tesla, hello RS6 hahaha