TESTER’S NOTES
Matt Prior
Car makers like Morgan make a big impact – but not on CO 2emissions
"We’ve always been more forward leaning on this stuff than the EU,” said energy secretary Grant Shapps last week as the UK government released more information on its plans for zero-emissions vehicles.
More forward leaning on ideas, perhaps – mandating the introduction of zero-emissions cars by 2030 rather than by 2035 and refusing to consider e-fuels for specialist vehicles while the EU has – but no more forward leaning on making concrete plans.
Last week, the government released its ‘consultation on a zero emission vehicle mandate and CO2emissions regulation for new cars and vans in the UK’, which proposed year-on-year industry reduction of average car and van CO2emissions until new pure-ICE sales are banned in 2030. However, the consultation will run to the end of May, it won’t publish the responses until August and it will presumably take some time after that to put the consultation into policies.