Car makers are rationing sales of petrol and hybrid vehicles in Britain to avoid hefty Net Zero fines, according to one of the country’s biggest dealership chains. The Telegraph has the story.
Robert Forrester, Chief Executive of Vertu Motors, said manufacturers were delaying deliveries of cars until next year amid fears they will otherwise breach quotas set for them by the Government.
This means someone ordering a car today at some dealerships will not receive it until February, he said.
At the same time, Mr. Forrester warned manufacturers and dealers were grappling with a glut of more expensive electric vehicles (EVs) that are “not easily finding homes”.
He said: “In some franchises there’s a restriction on supply of petrol cars and hybrid cars, which is actually where the demand is.
“It’s almost as if we can’t supply the cars that people want, but we’ve got plenty of the cars that maybe they don’t want.
“They [manufacturers] are trying to avoid the fines. So they’re constraining the ability for us to supply petrol cars in order to try and keep to the Government targets.”
The Chief Executive blamed the zero emission vehicle (ZEV) mandate, which requires at least 22% of cars sold by manufacturers to be electric from this year.
This target will gradually rise each year before reaching 80% in 2030, with manufacturers made to pay £15,000 for every petrol car that exceeds their quota – unless they have so-called carbon credits to spend.
But the scheme has prompted stark warnings from bosses at major brands, such as Vauxhall owner Stellantis and Ford, which have said they cannot sacrifice profits by selling EVs at large discounts indefinitely.
Instead, they have previously warned they may be forced to restrict petrol car supplies to artificially boost their ZEV mandate performance.
The warning from Vertu is the first confirmation that carmakers have now begun doing so….
Mr. Forrester said: “What the Government’s actually doing is constraining the new car market, which has a big impact on VAT receipts for them, and creates a business environment in the U.K. where manufacturers may question whether they want to make cars here.
“As Carlos Tavares [chief executive of Stellantis] has said, why should they sell cars at a loss because of U.K. Government policy?
“The new car market is no longer a market, unfortunately. It’s a state-imposed supply chain.”
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“Only in my hometown of Brighton and Hove…”
Would that it were only possible in Brighton and Hove.
Legal professionals are everywhere manifesting their make-believe virtual worlds through the manipulation of language and expert whataboutery. If a corporation can be a person, why can’t a man be women?
An excellent vehicle by which to destroy a country.
Sorry but this is really a bit silly. The law regards companies as legal persons so that they can be legally liable and be sued. If you wanted to sue a company you would be glad of that.
This makes my blood boil. Who really has the welfare of children at the heart of their thinking? Children’s parents or children’s state service providers? The latter are not only incentivised by woke dogma, but also by their very real need to feel good about themselves. Feel good about themselves by destroying the lives of innocent children. I couldn’t despise these creatures more; they are evil. I’m not sure what I would do if I had young children being indoctrinated like this by this filth. Nothing good.
Labour are communists in disguise. They are showing their true communist, totalitarian colours in Brighton and other places they control. A coming Labour government will have people in gulags: cancellation, firing from jobs and then polizei stasi investigating your thinking will become the norm. We are heading for a very dark place in this country. The socialists are coming for you and your thoughts and freedom. Hopefully it will cause civil unrest and they will be destroyed.
Labour are vile. A clear and present danger to children and the people of this country. How in God’s name are people really favouring this shower of communist dictators??.our people have become mad. They deserve their prison which is coming fast.
The really simple explantion for events like this, especially the transition from Green -> Labour without any change of the Against the people united we stand! political agenda is that there’s money to be had by acting in this way. So-called trans activists are adults seeking to exploit vulnerable, eg, depressive or autistic, children, for their own benefit. And council sold the children to them based on being legally entitled to imprison them in so-called school buildings for most of their time which have thus found new and much more exciting and profitable purpose than teaching them boring stuff like history or maths.
The methods of these people may resemble those of Marxists. But they’re certainly not planning to uplift the working class to decent standards of living by fighting against their exploitative employers.
Forget the gender nonsense and concentrate on the real issues that these children will face .
The majority of these schoolchildren will no longer have their birth father living in their home by the time they are 7years old and there is NO money or organisations out there to help them understand and survive these changes.
There is something particularly evil about this assault on the mental health and emotional integrity of young children. Frankly I can understand it when parents faced with this situation take the law into their own hands.
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I did read it. But the article could have benefitted from some editorial shortening.
I wonder why nobody is investigating why so many children have these transgender issues, is it environmental toxins?