With news that private sales of electric vehicles fell last year and with the Prime Minister set to delay the looming ban on petrol vehicles, Patrick O'Flynn writes that you'd have to pay him to buy an electric car.
As the EU threatens to fight the rising imports of Chinese electric cars with big new tariffs, the UK, under "farcical" Net Zero laws, is set to do the opposite and force UK car makers to subsidise their Chinese rivals.
The electric car debacle shows the top-down economics of Net Zero don’t add up as the fundamentals of supply and demand are ignored by the ‘cart before the horse’ approach, says Ben Marlow.
More electric vehicles are being made by manufacturers than drivers want, one of Britain’s biggest car dealerships has said, as the Government tries to artificially force the market to move against consumer preferences.
Colin M. Barron looks at all the reasons why the overhyped electric car revolution is doomed to be a disastrous failure on every score.
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.
