Council grants help Cardiff taxi drivers to cut emissions

A Cardiff Council scheme has provided more than £200,000 of grants to enable the city’s taxi drivers to upgrade to more fuel efficient or fully electric vehicles. Every year the average full-time taxi driver in the UK clocks up anything from 25,000 to 45,000 miles of driving- significantly more than the approximately 7,500 miles2the average […]

Government offers funding to help more black cab drivers go green

The Government has announced an extension to the Plug-in Taxi Grant, meaning cab drivers will receive £6,000 per vehicle for swapping to an EV. The extension will run until April next year, which the government says provides certainty to those who are looking to make the switch to electric. It says that, since its introduction […]

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