Ford Scrappage Scheme to Include Commercial Vehicles

Ford today announced a car and van scrappage scheme aimed at improving air quality by enabling customers, of any brand, to trade-in and scrap their old vehicles for new and affordable vehicles with significantly lower emissions. Significantly for the logistics industry, the new incentive deal includes commercial vehicles, such as the latest Transit Custom model.

Applicable to any pre-Euro 5 vehicle, registered before December 2009, the scheme will enable eligible consumers to benefit from of a scrappage incentive of between £2,000 and £7,0001 on a variety of Ford models, including the new high-tech Fiesta and Transit Custom, Britain’s most popular car and van respectively. The Ford scrappage program will run to the end of the year and is effective for registrations from September 1st to December 31st 2017.

All new Ford EcoBoost petrol and EcoBlue diesel models meet the Euro 6 standard, the toughest vehicle emissions yet.

Latest Euro 6 standard4 and new vehicle technologies mean today’s cars produce far lower emissions than previous generations:
• carbon monoxide (CO), petrol down 63%; diesel down 82% since 1993
• hydrocarbons (HC), petrol down 50% since 2001
• oxides of nitrogen (NOX) down 84% since 2001
• particulate matter (PM), diesel down 96% since 1993

Data from the SMMT shows that there are approximately 19.3 million pre-Euro 5 emission level passenger cars on the UK roads today and reducing that number, through scrappage programs, would have the effect of reducing CO2 by 15 million tons per year, equivalent to the annual output of approximately three coal-fired power stations.

Medium to longer-term actions to improve air quality include a plug-in hybrid version of the Ford Transit Custom, due to start trials later this year. The Transit PHEV is planned for commercial introduction in 2019 and is part of Ford’s total investment of $4.5 billion in electrified vehicles by 2020, which also includes a fully electric, long-range SUV.

Customer Eligibility
• Incentive would apply to vehicles registered up to 31st December 2009
• The traded-in vehicle must have been registered in the owner’s name for at least 90 days
• The trade-in vehicle must be scrapped

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