It's the only sensible thing to do - it must be far too lot for most manufacturers to pivot to the new deadline, especially as I suspect Labour will be taking a machete to a lot of these Last Days of Rome announcements.
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Exactly. When EV and ICE are even near the same price, and range is 250+ miles, why oh why would you buy an ICE? So expensive to run now, let alone as the economics of scale of fuel production, distribution and storage start to spiral up as it all shrinks. Such a pain in the ass to have to schedule in refilling, rather than just plugging in at night at home. To ICE are slow and fumey.
It's clear ICE is doomed.
Are cheap EVs close in price to cheap ICE in the UK? I have no idea, I'm just curious.
Not yet, but the prices are coming down and Chinese EV will pile on the price pressure down.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Nissan has vowed to “press ahead” with a plan to only sell electric vehicles in Europe by 2030 despite Rishi Sunak’s delay to the UK ban on new petrol and diesel car sales.
The government-backed research aims to develop a self-driving car capable of safely navigating residential, urban and rural spaces.
MPs and carmakers are pushing to reduce Europe’s reliance on China for critical minerals such as cobalt and lithium, which are crucial in the EV supply chain.
Nissan will soon launch two new EVs in Europe – a successor to the “entry-level” Micra, and another vehicle, which will be built at its vast Sunderland plant as part of a £1bn project.
The increased competition from China also provided impetus for Nissan to complete a long-delayed deal to restructure its relationship with Renault earlier this year.
The troubled alliance between the global manufacturers had been a source of tension for decades, and risked collapse after the arrest in Japan of Carlos Ghosn, the former chair of both companies who had been pushing for a full potential merger, on charges of concealing income in 2018.
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