Europe has approved the ban on petrol and diesel from 2035, the Great Britain has just confirmed that it will bring the date forward to 2030. The news was in the air and today the Labor-led executive Keir Starmer he has declared that he will not back down.
In fact, car manufacturers are worried about the decline in demand for electricity in Europe, they had asked for more time. The Conservative Government of Rishi Sunak he had thus questioned the decision to bring forward the ban on stopping petrol and diesel cars to 2030 taken in 2020 under the administration Boris Johnson. Starmer, however, goes straight on his way.
The ZEV mandate
Those who read us regularly will remember that a few days ago we wrote that in October in the United Kingdom Chinese cars overtook Fiats. There are many reasons and among many we have talked about mandate ZEV with which the UK forced car manufacturers to catch up this year a share of 22% of electric car sales.
The companies thus found themselves forced to offer discounts, which they said were “unsustainable”, to reach the objective and in October, according to SMMT data, the share of BEVs for new cars reached 21%.
Going into detail, the ZEV mandate requires that the percentage of new electric cars sold be increasingly higher, the objective is get to 100% by 2030. And there are fines on the horizon.
Fines for those who fail
In the UK, car manufacturers that fail to meet the targets of the ZEV mandate will have to pay a fine. The sanctions go up to £15,000 for each excess vehicle and manufacturers can purchase an allowance from other compliant manufacturers, again paying £15,000 each.
This is why the automotive industry has asked the government to restore incentives for the purchase of electric cars, removed by the Sunak administration. At the moment, however, there are no state benefits of any kind in the UK.
Source: it.motor1.com
