Electric cars accounted for 25.1% of all new car sales in the UK last month.

You'd think this was a cause to celebrate.

But car industry body SMMT claims it's only because of "heavy manufacturer discounting".

Meanwhile, in Norway >90% of new car sales are EVs...

www.smmt.co.uk/2024/12/disc...

Sources say Ministers are considering options to increase demand for electric vehicles. This is a good thing. The smartest thing to do -politically & economically- is NOT to cut VAT (a subsidy to middle class EV drivers) but to make EVs accessible to lower income families by subsidising leasing.

What a chart.
www.economist.com/interactive/...

I cannot recommend this episode of Solving for Climate more highly. Takes on the nonsense that surrounds “the costs of Net Zero”.

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