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Tinkering with the electric car mandate won’t help manufacturers

9 April 2025

6:30 PM

9 April 2025

6:30 PM

Presumably, some future government will have to reverse the ban on the sale of new petrol and diesel vehicles in Britain. The country quite obviously lacks anything like the necessary charging infrastructure for a wholesale switch to electric for the national vehicle fleet in the foreseeable future. Let alone sufficient generation capacity at peak times.

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