New cheapest electric car in Britain! Chinese brand cuts price to £14,500 as reports suggest it WON’T qualify for government’s EV grant

14,995 £ Dacia Spring is no longer the cheapest electric car in England … For now, still.

The crown has lost a Chinese new from a Chinese new from the government today that the government has reduced model prices in response to the new electric car grant.

Recently, Leapmotor, who recently accepted an agreement to stock up on the European showrooms of the European giant and the European giant, has overturned £ 1,500 from the price of the T03 city car. It has a range of 165 miles on a full charge.

This reduced the price of 165 -range electric car to £ 14,495 to reduce Dacia’s bargaining battery model to make the most suitable new house sold in the UK.

The C10 Family SUV, the only model of Leapmotor sold in the UK, is immediately enacted and a discount of £ 3750.

The magnitude of these two price deductions is matched with the minimum and maximum discount offered by Labour’s new electric car grant on Monday.

However, Leapmotor claims to be offered ‘Leap-Grant’ to customers to avoid delays waiting for the arrival of the government plan, while reports and other Chinese brands are likely to be entitled to subsidies financed by taxpayers.

The electric car grant (ECG) announced by the transportation secretary Heidi Alexander this week, the government’s new great hope to revive the demand for the houses because the government continued to ban the sale of new gasoline and diesel automobile sales.

However, it will not come into force immediately.

The reason for this is that the producers should apply to be in accordance with the plan that could last weeks, experts implied.

Leapmotor UK, so ‘he gets something proactive splash To help the buyers of electric automobile buyers start their self -financed home grant from today to save up to $ 3,750. ‘

‘This initiative adds as follows, since the government announced its own home grant program that will not start until the next month, the first car manufacturer in the UK offers such a grant.’

For the government plan, it is qualified up to £ 37,000, excluding premium models, including every Tesla on sale. No Audi, BMW or Mercedes house will be suitable.

This may sound like a good news and budget -friendly model offer for Leapmotor, but reports – and other Asian brands – ECG would not meet a secondary conditions carried out by the government to qualify for ECG.

In order to be appropriate, manufacturers must meet certain sustainability criteria. Science -based target (SBT).

This is a green standard for companies that reflect the carbon effect of product production – in this case electric cars and batteries.

The DFT will receive only the grant subsidy of the greenest companies only by £ 3,750, and only those who are thought to be welcomed by a lower group will be given a discount of £ 1,500.

However, it will not take any grants – which does not meet a minimum threshold – not yet disclosed.

Reports suggest that Chinese home manufacturers could foul emission based rules. Like other Asian manufacturers, including Korea and Japan Car.

Although T03 is far below the price threshold of £ 37,000 in order to qualify for the newly announced electric car grant, Chinese brands such as Leapmotor will be a foul of sustainability criteria that should be suitable for the plan

The government insists that every automobile manufacturer who is entitled to receive grants should reach certain industry points for green production of cars and batteries. Reports claimed that China Marques may not be able to cut

Leapmotor’s T03 has been upset the Dacia Spring (in the picture), the cheapest new home of England since its release last year. Spring cost is £ 14,995, but it has a shorter battery range.

Like consumers, Leapmotor says that he is still waiting to learn which vehicles will be entitled, how much financial support will be available, and when the grants will come into force.

The conditions and conditions say that discounts are subject to orders from authorized Leapmotor retailers between 18 July and 30 September 2025.

However, if the government does not qualify for a grant on the grounds of sustainability, it may have to expand the availability of agreements.

However, the spring of Dacia, which costs £ 14.995 and has been the cheapest house of England for the last 12 months, has been produced in China.

In fact, it was built in Covid-Orijen Wuhan, built by Dacia’s main company Renault Group and Dongfeng Motor Group, Dongfeng Renault.

The government has not yet been seen whether the government will be entitled to receive a grant to £ 3,750.

Like consumers, Leapmotor says that he is still waiting to learn which vehicles will be entitled, how much financial support will be available, and when the grants will come into force. Meanwhile, the price of T03 (left) reduces £ 1,500 and C10 (right) $ 3,750.

The first delivery of the T03 came to England at the end of last year. The small Electric City car is well equipped and has many features despite the low entry price.

The T03, which is strengthened with a 37.3kWh battery and 95HP (70kW) electric motor and applied on skinny 15 -inch wheels, has an average of 165 miles (245 miles if it exhibits only in the town).

At least for the next two months, the T03 is reduced from £ 15.995 to £ 14.995 with a discount of £ 1,500.

Personal contract purchasing (PCP) financing can take £ 169 per month before the end of September and £ 169 on April 0 for four years.

The larger C10 SUV decreases in a PCP agreement of 0 percent for £ 3,750 to £ 32,750 or £ 319 and $ 319 per month.

Leapmotor UK General Manager Damien Dally, “ “ Our mission, the UK drivers to help to facilitate electric cars, ” he said.

‘Now we have decided to take action because we want to save customers and savings instantly and make a simple choice for electric transition.’

Both cars come with four -year warranty, while batteries are covered with a separate warranty for eight years.