The Net Zero crackdown on combustion engines could force the maker of Vauxhall to scale back its presence in Britain, its boss has warned, calling the petrol car sales restrictions "terrible for the U.K."
Electric car sales plummeted by 11.3% across Europe last month, rising to 29% in Germany, as demand dried up despite the EU's push to ban petrol and diesel vehicles by the middle of the next decade.
Sales of Volkswagen electric cars have plunged by almost a quarter in Europe as demand for battery-powered vehicles stalls and buyers return to petrol.
Watch as an e-bike explodes at a London train station as four people narrowly escape injury. It comes after an e-bike caught fire outside Buckingham Palace and another exploded in a block of flats in Roehampton.
Electric car demand has slowed sharply in a sign that drivers are turning back to petrol. The raw material demand to produce EV batteries is "unsustainable", the head of Vauxhall and Peugeot has said.
The Chinese Government could bring Britain's roads to a standstill by remotely stopping Chinese-made electric cars, MPs have been warned.
The NHS is to introduce electric ambulances, raising concerns that its drive for Net Zero is being put above patient safety owing to the limited range and long charging times.
An electric car driver whose EV "went rogue" on the M62 has told of his terror as he swerved through traffic at speeds of up to 100mph before police managed to ram his car off the road.
Electric vehicles may release more pollution than petrol-powered vehicles, according to a report that has recently resurfaced.
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.
