Whilst one would assume that motor manufacturers would rejoice at the news of a delay, early reports are they are displeased with the uncertainty this introduces into their planning horizon and may impact on their earlier recovery of the substantial investment in the EV platforms with the consequential reducing of predicted demand for EV's as a result of a 2030 ban delay, higher EV demand would them to help recover their investment costs. earlier
The wider debate in Europe, is the extend of the proposed lower emissions requirements of Euro 7 is creating a massive investment in ICE technology to comply with little improvement in real life 'green house' car emissions, with a very short investment recovery period before ICE's are banned, when that funding should be being invested in EV cars and battery investment.
Both are very sound business arguments, we seem to suffer a new form of madness and political correctness allowing the 'green lobby' to much sway, increasingly demonstrated by the likes the Welsh 20mph speed limit, that is projected to cost Welsh economy £9 billion a year....very little press is given to the projected trillions its going to cost to make the UK economy green...and who is paying for it...obviously the consumer/taxpayer. And despite all the economic cost burden we will subject ourselves to as a result of going green, it wont matter much in the grand scheme of global warming whilst the likes of China, India and the US continue to pollute at their current levels
