The UK car market has become a Government-subsidised house of cards and now teeters on the brink of disaster, says Gabriel McKeown. Could Labour's welfare cuts be the trigger as subsidies are pulled?
Steven Tucker has had a look at the Muslim Vote's 18 demands, which include lower car insurance premiums, and thinks some of them sound awfully like 'jiyza' – a tax on non-Muslims paid to Muslims.
Electric cars saw their market share plunge by a quarter in Britain last month, as hard-up customers shunned the high prices and soaring insurance costs.
Drivers of electric cars are being asked to pay more than twice as much for insurance as those who own petrol-fuelled models as EV premiums surge 50% in a year, data have revealed.
According to the Chef Exec of Thatcham Research, the motor insurers' research centre, electric cars may soon become uninsurable. The average EV insurance policy increased by 72% in the year to September.
