The UK government has launched a consultation with industry as it confirms an ICE ban from 2030, but no public consultation.
It’s been mooted, ever since Labour came to power, that they planned to re-instate the original bonkers ZEV mandate to ban ICE cars from the UK by 2030. And that’s now confirmed, with the consultation announcement declaring “no new petrol or diesel cars will be sold after 2030“.
As the government announces a consultation on the decision it’s talking to the car industry to plot how to achieve and support the ban, but it doesn’t have any interest in hearing what the public thinks.
It’s clear the whole headlong kami kazi flight into a ‘Green’ future is a done deal, with Heidi Alexander,
Secretary of State for Transport, declaring, with an apparently straight face:
British consumers are already revealing their preferences: in 2024 roughly one in every five new cars purchased in the UK will be electric. Five years ago the equivalent figure was less than one in every fifty. The British people are embracing electric vehicles because they are cheaper (consumers can save hundreds of pounds?a year and they have the potential to be run from as little as 2 pence a mile), they are great to drive, and simpler to maintain.
The truth is that over 80% of EVs are bought by businesses for tax breaks, and the idea you can run an EV for 2p a mile is available only for half of UK car owners with off-street parking and their own charger, and then only on very select tariffs. For most, even charging at home will cost many times that and charging away from home probably 10 times as much.
We’re also apparently going to be a ‘Clean Energy Superpower’ by 2030, with no reliance on fossil fuels, as long as the sun always shines and the wind always blows (at the right speed).
It’s all madness.
Tom says
Alan … just shut up. You have made your point.
Wdy says
IF they had a vote in the UK to stop the green dream they know it would be voted out , an ICE vehicle can run with less emissions then an EV we have come that far ,you dont see electric military vehicals they dont have the reliability , range , or power to pull anything, no HGV EVs imagine the service stations.
This is just another tool to supress the working class and stop progress.
I work in the motor industry and we can all see the future and its not what the public want its being forced by woke green dreamers,
We should force a vote on the green agenda as its the people of the UK that will be paying for it.
For the Tory party to get back in all they need to do is say 2050 and get to work getting the inferstructure ready and build the Nuclear power stations they promised as far back as 1984 and the Motor industry will have time to sort out the silly price of EV vehicles and most important range.
Must go now its raining so that must be to do with global warming.
NO ITS JUST RAINING FOR GODS SAKE.
Alan says
Looks like my comment about poor journalism has been removed, but the article not corrected. Where you state “ the original bonkers ZEV mandate to ban ICE cars from the UK by 2030” this is simply not true. ICE cars are NOT being banned, just SALE of NEW ones. Please don’t publish false information. And perhaps be a bit more impartial rather than anti EV.
Cars UK says
Our readers know it’s a ban on new ICE cars. And we’re not anti EVs, just anti binning a century of ICE tech on the alter of ‘Green’ and forcing car buyers into expensive tech they don’t want.
Alan says
Why not make an accurate statement that it is banning NEW cars , not the incorrect statement you made. That would be good journalism. If you think your readers already know the situation, why waste words telling them. But more accuracy would be good to avoid damaging your site reputation.
NoName says
No ne likes evs, only lefties and woke people like evs. evs are a scam, switching to evs will be a disaster! You’ll see..
Alan says
Have you actually driven an EV?
Alan says
Very poor journalism. Rather than being factual it is emotive and incorrect – eg “ the original bonkers ZEV mandate to ban ICE cars from the UK by 2030”. Even under the fastest proposal there is NO plan to “ban ICE cars”, only SALES of NEW ones. Please don’t publish false information. And perhaps need to be a bit more open minded, as many / most tests suggest EVs are good to drive and liked by owners.