The market for electric cars remains relatively small, but it is growing rapidly, largely due to increasingly stringent emissions limits.
T&E's report is based on information compiled by industry data specialist IHS Markit, including the carmakers' own market and production forecasts. But the UK, it says, will see output fall from its pre-Covid level of 1.3 million cars a year to just 1 million - and only 24% are expected to be battery-powered electric vehicles.
He added that independent forecasts showed the UK was ramping up its production of electric vehicles and that it would be able to meet the government's net zero 2030 ambitions. Toyota has frequently defended its focus on hybrids in the past, saying it "believes it is better to maintain an open regulatory framework towards carbon neutrality and not limit possible technology solutions too early".The organisation is also critical of Jaguar Land Rover and BMW, owner of the Mini brand. It says Stellantis, which owns Vauxhall, "is better prepared to transition to electric cars but is focusing new electric car production in EU countries".
This is like the introduction of trains, it will be a hotchpotch of companies all doing different things, then decades later there will be a need for a countrywide approach which inevitably costs millions more that setting it up right at the start
The north-south divide isn't helping matters. Nearest charge station to me is 2 miles away. I see them once in a blue moon. When I went down south we were stunned by all the charge stations everywhere.
You’ll still be streets ahead of us in Australia, isn’t that right, ScottMorrisonMP
I hope do as electric cars will never replace the number of cars/vehicles we have on the road - there is simply not enough charging points to cope with the demand! No one will buy them so all a waste of time!
Stick with diesel
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