The scheme is being stopped immediately and will be replaced with a £300m package of grant funding focusing on expanding the public charge point network as well as electric taxis, vans, trucks, motorcycles and wheelchair accessible vehicles.

To continue the government’s drive towards net zero and ensure effective use of taxpayer funds, £300m in grant funding will now be refocused towards extending plug-in grants to boost sales of plug-in taxis, motorcycles, vans and trucks and wheelchair accessible vehicles, as announced in the Autumn Statement.

All existing applications for the grant will continue to be paid out and where a car has been sold in the two working days before the announcement (14 June), but an application for the grant from dealerships has not yet been made, the sale will also still qualify for the grant.