lancpudn:
Carryfast:
All moot because JLR as a brand is arguably irrelevant without a committment to ongoing ICE powered. vehicles.The rules don’t say EV only as opposed to hydrogen fuelled ICE.
While luxury van conversions will be the default choice to minimise all the battery capacity downsides of EVs while best meeting the demands of the luxury SUV market.
Which leaves the question of the economic viability of a 50p per kWh + road fuel duty and 20% VAT fuel source in the general car market.
Even allowing for 60% fuel efficiency advantage of EVs when a litre of petrol contains around 10kwh.
Bearing in mind the predictable compulsory smart metering of even home charging obviously to cater for taxation purposes.“They want to end the free CO2 pass for heavier cars by removing the mass adjustment factor which is one of the principal reasons for the surging sales of highly-polluting SUVs.” One of the reasons carmakers like Bentley, Mercedes, BMW who have always traditionally make big heavy ICE vehicles announced that they’re going electric otherwise they might fall for even bigger fines come Euro 7.
If they remove that mass adjustment factor I should imagine the “Green tax” on ICE SUV’s etc will be exorbitant
The fact is none of this is about leaving fossil fuel in the ground.
Europe is clamouring to get its hands on as much fossil fuel as it can get because it knows that nuclear is lethal let alone unaffordable.
While it’s equally obvious that the anti ICE luddite agenda has nothing to do with fossil fuel use
As for BMW and JLR, as you’ve implied yourself, their business case ceases to exist without an ongoing ICE option.
All of which makes their future plans as EV manufacturers moot, when other manufacturers can do it as good and cheaper.
All moot at 50p per kWh + road fuel duty and 20% VAT.
These bs rules are just moving the goal posts to make a mockery of the 2030 cut off by stealth.Bearing in mind that there is nothing in the rules which say no alternative fuelled ICE powered vehicles allowed regardless.
No doubt the next part of this stinking agenda will predictably have to change to applying the cut off retrospectively.
Removing all ICE vehicles from the roads.
Because otherwise the used market becomes the default choice.Which is actually happening now to circumvent the imposed quotas being applied to new premium ICE sales.