Electric car purchases will be cheaper, pledges Heidi Alexander

The government will make it cheaper to buy an electric car (EV) to get more drivers to make the switch, the Transport Secretary has said.

Heidi Alexander was responding to reports suggesting the government will offer drivers thousands of pounds in grants to cut the price of buying an EV.

People without driveways will be able to have charge points fitted using “cross-pavement gullies” paid for with £25m allocated to councils, she told the BBC’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg.

The Conservatives welcomed the investment but accused the government of “forcing families” into “expensive electric vehicles before the country was ready”.

Alexander said: “We are going to be making some…