Nov 8 (Reuters) – The British government is expected to cut its electric vehicle sales target for 2030 by about a quarter to around 60%, the Guardian said on Sunday, citing government sources.<\/p>\n
\n The 2024 mandate requires carmakers to ensure zero-emission vehicles (ZEVs) contribute a rising share of annual sales, with the 2026 target of 33%, rising to 80% in 2030 and 100% by 2035.<\/p>\n
\n Louise Haigh, the de facto deputy prime minister, is expected to finalise the plan after a meeting in Downing Street on Wednesday, the newspaper said.<\/p>\n
\n Haigh will probably approve a 2030 target of about 60% and extend flexibility until 2034, it added.<\/p>\n
\n “The government is united in its commitment to the ZEV mandate, and no decisions have been taken,” a government spokesperson told Reuters, reaffirming commitment to the 2030 phase-out of all new cars with only petrol and diesel engines.<\/p>\n
\n The mandate consultation would not alter the zero-emissions target for all new car and van sales by 2035, the spokesperson added.<\/p>\n
\n Options set out in August by Prime Minister Andy Burnham’s government could ease pressure on carmakers to switch new sales to zero-emission vehicles, with existing targets under review.<\/p>\n
\n Carmakers say supply chain disruptions and poor consumer demand make it tough to comply with the mandate.<\/p>\n
\n Battery-electric vehicles made up 26.6% of new car sales year to date, off the 33% target for 2026, the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders said last week, urging “substantive” target changes to pull them closer to demand.<\/p>\n
\n (Reporting by Sumedha Mukherjee in Bengaluru; Editing by Nia Williams and Clarence Fernandez)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nov 8 (Reuters) – The British government is expected to cut its electric vehicle sales target for 2030…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162175,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,160],"class_list":["post-162174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-britain","tag-britain","tag-markets"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/117583805373768919","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}