Tag: Internal Combustion Engine

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.

Electric vehicles will never dominate the market, Toyota Chairman Akio Toyoda has said, and will likely peak at under 30%, in the latest sign that car companies are backing away from the troubled technology.

Hertz has announced it’s going to take a $245 million hit as it offloads 20,000 EVs because too few people want to rent them and goes back to petrol.

Car park spaces should become wider and burning electric cars dunked in baths of water, under proposed Government guidelines to prevent battery fires spreading out of control.

Rishi Sunak is poised to ditch the 2030 ban on new petrol and diesel cars and slow the phasing-out of gas boilers as he scales back costly green pledges.

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.

Little known to the voting public, Conservatives, Labour and Lib Dems have all signed up to legally binding five-year plans which stipulate a detailed programme to re-engineer society to cut emissions by a specific amount.

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.

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.

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.