Sales of alternative powered cars goes into reverse gear
- Sales of alternative powered cars in the UK have fallen.
- The car sales decline of new cars dropped by 4.9% in June from the year before.
- The premature removal of subsidies coupled with the car industry woes is of concern.
- UK government set the target of 2040 to ban new petrol and diesel cars on UK roads.
- Alternatively fuelled vehicles saw overall sales fall for the first time since April 2017.
- Last year’s short sighted budget saw subsidies for plug-in hybrids scrapped, and reduced for electric vehicles.
If the government were to re-introduce decent incentives to make buying electric and hybrid vehicles attractive again, the uptake of alternative fuelled vehicles would quickly recover.