Incentivising switch to cleaner vehicles

Whwat is theenvironmental cost of scrapping perrfectly functional vehicles? I am against this idea of ascrappage scheme. Thevehicles are fine to live their expected life as long as they are not in an area which does not have apollution problem. Can we broker sales deals with car dealers in Wales or Cornwall? We just need to get them out of London.
There needs to be disincentives to own diesel vehicles in London. Refusal of new parking permits for residents with polluting vehicles. A newtax on sales of those through vehicle dealers within the M25. Increased rate of residents parking perits according to engien size and fuel type. Greater promotion of electric vehicles. Not licensing new taxis with diesel engines within London from 2020. Revert the congestion charge zoneback to the original size to cover West London residents. Introduce 20mph speed liits. Impose ademolition tax on developments toencourage conversion rather than razing and revuilding ( thus liiting the number of lorries to takeaway the rubble and with the funds going to fiance green initiatives. Set up conversion centres to transform diesel fuelled cars to run on veg oil. I know several people who have donethiswith no problems at all. More parkign spaces for electric vehicles. Remove the exempton for residents. Some of the worst ehicles are owned by peoplewho live in the inner city. It is not some kind of vehicle immigration that is causing the problem. It is our neighbours. Stop being sohard on tuck tuks.

I drive a diesel and for my children's sake would love to switch to an electric car. A discount (I think there used to be £5k subsidy) towards a new electric car would be helpful, but also more charging points, as I live in a flat and have to rely on on-street parking/ charging.

Use of electric vehicles inc. private ones could be encouraged. This means providing more charging points.

So, I too bought a diesel car (3-year old Audi, second hand a year and a half ago). I was reluctant but my new partner had had a VW diesel previously (which needed replacing). She showed me lots of evidence that diesel cars were better for the environment than petrol cars. That now turns out to be so much codswallopp ... even if Audi hadn't cheated (and we are still waiting for them to 'fix' our car, all these months after they admitted to cheating), it transpires that all diesel cars emit far more NOX and other polluting particles than petrol cars and than they state in their information or appear to do when being tested.

So, a number of measures need to be implemented (just in relation to diesel cars):

1. VW need to be forced to repair all cars within next three months.
2. All diesel manufacturers to be forced to repair their cars so that they perform as advertised and tested in real world conditions - for free, and within next 6 months.
3. Incentives to scrap and replace older most polluting vehicles ... although I recognise that this will penalise the less well off unfairly as they will most likely be the ones driving them).
4. No diesel cars allowed as mini-cabs or cabs.

With regard to other more-wide reaching measures:

1. Erect pollution measurement and electronic display devices right across London - so that people can see the numbers staring them in the face. Nothing works better to sway public opinion than hard facts 'pushed' at the ad made impossible to ignore.
2. I would ban driving kids to and from school.
3. Make more car-free areas around London.
4. Encourage the move to electric vehicles - cars, scooters and e-bikes. And deploy considerably more infrastructure such as charging points to support this. Use financial incentives, electric-only lanes, road tax, etc. to hasten the transition.
5. Focus on initiatives that promote the use of public transport: improved rolling stock, improved frequencies, better facilities at edge-of-city stations to allow ease of transfer from car to public transport, better fare policies (such as a lower max charge per day, more flexibility for bus hopping without paying twice, etc.), better integration of overground and underground stations and networks, and more.
6. Reduce maximum speed to 20mph in most areas.
7. Discourage large transport (lorries in effect, but coaches too) from entering central London with onerous taxes/penalties.
8. Have car-free days in certain areas of town - especially during summer months when pollution is highest.
9. Dedicated bike lanes and networks so that riders can be safe.
10. Better and tighter restrictions on construction work with monthly charges and additional penalties for broaching certain levels (although I am unclear on how this would be measured).

A scrappage scheme would be most helpful or a grant to switch to a LPG.

A scrappage deal of £5,000 would be off no benefit if the new vehicles are going to cost 10,15, or £20,000 more than their current price.

Rather than punishing people for the vehicles they currently have, the policy should be to encourage people to change or reduce their vehicle usage.This seems like a typical stealth tax on the motorist (the usual easy target).
How about instead offering a "discount voucher" against a new vehicle, or additional incentives for electric/hybrid vehicles?
More investment is also needed in charging infrastructure to make it work. I have a plug in hybrid car and have so far never used a public charge point. Most are slow charge only and do not provide a tethered cable.
It will cost me hundreds of pounds for a cable, and when parked for an hour or two, the charge gained is minimal. No real point - unless there is a fast DC charge point it takes about 6 hours to charge.
As far as I am aware there is also no subsidy to install a charge point at my work so why should the business spend a significant amount on this?
Could always reduce public transport fares, that may encourage more people to ditch their cars.

I also wonder if different options are appropriate for different boroughs. I live in Inner London - Zone 2 - and whilst there are loads of people who own and drive cars, I don't accept that the majority of them couldn't find other options for most of their journeys.

We bought a diesel car in good faith. I now accept that we did the wrong thing, but it's what we have, and I can't think that buying a new car (even if that were financially possible) would be the right thing to do, environmentally.

It's my understanding that diesel vehicles still are a good choice for longer trips outside urban areas, and this is what we (almost exclusively) use ours for.

My suggestion, for a scheme that would reduce diesel USE in London would be:

- Offer all residents of LEZ/ULEZ a choice - they can either pay the full charge, and drive as much as they want on any day, OR they can agree to fit some sort of transponder which monitors when and how they use their car, and bills them on a km/hr basis (probably with higher charges at peak times). This would mean that people who keep a car essentially to leave London with would not be penalised simply for ownership, but that actually driving the car within London would attract a charge.

- If effective retro-fitting of pollution capture devices is available, the scrappage scheme could pay a (high) proportion of that cost

- Getting rid of a diesel car completely could entitle the owner plus partner to free Travelcards for perhaps 2 years, plus free membership (again for a fixed period) of a car club

This is potentially very regressive and will hit those least able to afford it without additional support for people to acquire new(er) vehicles, and I agree it is not fair to target drovers who bought diesel vehicles in good faith. I wouldn't describe myself as low income but I can't afford to replace my 15 year old petrol car, and I can't even consider an electric car without some serious improvements in electric car technology to give a range to match that of current petrol or diesel cars as my journeys are too long for current electric only cars. Many of the cars I would consider buying aren't even available in anything other than as a diesel.

In agreement with this idea BUT it should be extended to older petrol cars not just diesels if they are to be included in the proposed ULEZ charges. Why should drivers of older diesels be compensated for changing their car whereas drivers of older petrol cars, which would have to pay the same ULEZ charge as a diesel under the current proposals, won't be? I also think it should not be restricted only to options that do not involve buying another car. Not all people can or want to join a car club or commute by bike and for some it is simply impractical not to own a car so it should be possible to choose to use use the money against the purchase of another car (including a newer second hand car) that exceeds the ULEZ requirements, even if other options are available such as car club membership.

In order to encourage mass uptake of affordable electric vehicles, the mature charging infrastructure is needed. Penalising the use of pollutting vehicles should be harsh, making the choice between using the old vehicle and buying a new cleaner car easier. Money should not be spent on scrappage scheme, but rather on the incentives not to use a car at all.

I drive an older VW campervan, it is diesel and would need to be scrapped due to these laws, to buy a modern clean version would cost me over£50k I could never afford that, I can't even afford to buy a bottom of the range new 1.0L small car. All this is going to do is hurt the low income families like mine.