Electric vehicles subsidy scheme (FOI)Electric vehicles subsidy scheme (FOI)
Produced by the Freedom of Information officeAuthored by Government of Jersey and published on
24 May 2024.Prepared internally, no external costs.
Request
A
How many subsidies have been approved for the Electric Vehicle (EV) subsidy scheme launched in 2023 to date?
B
To date, how many subsidies of the maximum value (£3,500), have been approved and how many have been paid out for the EV subsidy scheme?
C
Please provide a breakdown by number and value of each of the EV subsidies by authorised retailer.
Response
A
As of 30 April 2024, 545 applications to the electric vehicle purchase incentive have been approved.
B
As of 30 April, there have been 482 applications to the maximum value of £3,500 that have been successfully redeemed. In addition, there are 26 approved applications with the maximum incentive amount of £3,500 waiting to be redeemed.
| Application Status | Count of applications | Total amount of Incentive Value (£3,500) |
| Approved | 26 | £91,000
|
| Redeemed | 482 | £1,687,000 |
| Total | 508 | £1,778,000 |
C
As of 30 April 2024, the total number of approved applications was 545. Due to commercial confidentiality the name of the individual retailers has not been provided and Article 33(b) of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has been applied. The table below shows number, total value and average value of incentives to the 15 retailers.
Retail number | Number of applications | Total value of incentives | Average value of incentive |
1
| 30 | £105,000 | £3,500 |
| 2 | 34 | £119,000 | £3,500 |
| 3 | 142 | £485,190 | £3,417 |
| 4 | 185 | £647,500 | £3,500 |
| 5 | 9 | £31,500 | £3,500 |
6
| 3 | £900 | £300 |
| 7 | 8 | £27,652 | £3,456 |
| 8 | 11 | £38,500 | £3,500 |
| 9 | 18 | £63,000 | £3,500 |
| 10 | 14 | £49,000 | £3,500 |
| 11 | 13 | £45,500 | £3,500 |
| 12 | 22
| £77,000 | £3,500 |
| 13 | 6 | £1,800 | £300 |
| 14 | 47 | £164,500 | £3,500 |
| 15 | 3 | £10,500 | £3,500 |
| Total | 545 | £1,866,541 | £3,425 |
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