The Energy Transition is Dead
2 March 2025
by Tilak Doshi
When Did our Era of National Demoralisation Begin?
1 March 2025
by Joanna Gray
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.
An industry expert is warning that Chinese electric cars flooding the U.K. market could be remotely controlled by Beijing to paralyse the nation.
Carmageddon? Boris's 2030 ban on petrol cars was a bold vision for a green industrial revolution. But with a woefully inadequate power grid and prohibitively expensive EVs, Britain faces a race against time.
Rowan Atkinson: The inconvenient truth about electric cars.
The Government is carrying out a review of net zero to see if the policy is placing “undue burdens on businesses or consumers”. The answer is an emphatic ‘yes’, according to Telegraph Money.
Lord Frost has written a terrific column in the Telegraph in defence of the most beleaguered tribe in Britain – the motorist. He says we must not let green central planners take away our right to drive.
Let us hope the next Prime Minister will abandon Boris's Net Zero zealotry and instead adopt a more balanced policy, mindful of the limits of models and the fact that Britain only emits 1% of the world's CO2.
Before COP26, the UK announced a ban on new petrol and diesel cars in 2030, hoping to inspire others. But no other country went along with inflicting this policy on its population. It's not hard to see why.
Whilst the terrible events unfolding in Ukraine have led to calls by some politicians for a slowdown in the timetable for Net Zero there is little appetite for changing the direction of travel. Is the argument lost?
British drivers face new taxes to use the roads to help claw back a little of the ginormous cost of moving to electric cars.
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