r/electricvehicles • u/sovalente • 21h ago

News EV targets watered down to help tariff-hit UK car industry

https://www.ft.com/content/95b9bfbd-78eb-4875-be3c-5bd051e1f177
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u/Reaper_MIDI 19h ago

This seems like a car industry grasping at any excuse to drag their feet.

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u/FANGO Tesla Roadster 1.5 16h ago

"Please put up trade barriers against China so we can catch up with them!"

"Please let us slow down!"

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u/RobDickinson 19h ago

Dont these dinosaurs see that making fossil cars in 2030 is going to mean their end?

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u/west0ne 16h ago

The 2030 date remains for ending the sale of new petrol/diesel cars with full-hybrid and PHEV sales continuing until 2035. What they have announced is a reduction in the level of fines that are being imposed for not meeting the targets on EV sales.

In the UK we have around a third of homes where people can't charge at home, we also have some of the highest costs for public charging in Europe, combined these are going to make the switch to EV unaffordable (and inconvenient) for a lot of households. The Government hasn't got long to come up with some sort of solution to this problem and it is probably one of the reasons why the growth in EV sales has slowed.

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u/cheesemp EScenic/leaf 12h ago

As a brit who goes full ev on Wednesday (replacing second family car) there are two reasons for slow ev adoption: 1) it's most retirees buying new cars. Most are very conservative and wouldn't even consider a hybrid. There is massive disinformation campaigns by right wing media about evs which feed into this. (The crazy part about this is old people a) have in general bigger houses with drive ways b) don't go far). 2) Poor charging infrastructure where it's needed. Motorways (freeways) are getting there but its still really painful to charge at home unless you have a drive way. Not enough work/street charging.

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u/EaglesPDX 20h ago

Shows how bad for the world the US's fall to fascism. It is delaying the response to global warming that science says is essential to survival of human civilization. World is seeing INCREASES in greenhouse gas emissions in 2025. We haven't even begun to level off much less see decreases in greenhouse gas emissions.

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u/tech57 20h ago

China has been doing good things lately with fixing climate change. Most people outside of USA recognize this. Plus with the new tariffs China won't be buying coal from USA anymore.

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u/kongweeneverdie 17h ago

Already stop importing any fossil fuel from US right now.

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u/FencyMcFenceFace 13h ago

?

China has set record highs of coal and oil consumption for almost every year of the last 10 years. They are still building coal plants.

I wouldn't describe that as "fixing climate change".

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u/tech57 7h ago

I wouldn't describe that as "fixing climate change".

That's because you have not been paying attention.

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u/FencyMcFenceFace 6h ago

So they have not been setting CO2 emissions records? They are not the world largest CO2 emitter?