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An electric car has been linked to a fire on a cargo ship carrying nearly 3,000 vehicles in the North Sea which killed one person and forced others to jump overboard.
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is poised to order a review of the 2030 ban on new petrol cars according to Government sources, amid mounting concern about the impact of costly green policies on household budgets.
Electric cars that sustain minor bumps are being kept 15 metres apart in repair yards over fears they might explode, adding to insurance bills as they require 50 times more space than petrol cars.
Net Zero goals to turn the electricity system green risk the lights going off, MPs on the powerful Public Accounts Committee have warned, as they suggest that Government policy should be for "people not to have cars".
Gripped by a culture of climate catastrophism, society seems hell-bent on ripping up the energy system that is the foundation of our civilisation with only the vaguest idea of what might replace it, says Andrew Montford.
Those who dodged the electric car bullet are feeling pretty smug right now, as the value of second-hand EVs plummets, free chargers vanish and the price of electricity soars.
Buyer interest in new electric cars has slumped by nearly two-thirds since the start of last year, new figures suggest, but Government is full of ideas to push the unwanted products on an unconvinced public.
The collectivist Net Zero political project is starting to come apart before our very eyes. Making everyone poor, cold, hungry and confined to small living territories was always a tall political ask.
A looming British ban on the sale of new internal combustion engine cars was thrown into chaos on Tuesday after Brussels watered down its own restrictions amid opposition from the German auto industry.
A mass market in affordable electric cars will not happen soon because of the difficulty of producing them on a commercially viable basis, one of the largest makers of ‘zero-emission’ vehicles for UK drivers has warned.
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