Regardless of your political stance, it’s hard to argue that Boris Johnson was anything other than front-footed – in principle, at least, if perhaps not in thorough planning – when it came to forcing the pace on electric car adoption.
The former prime minister’s plans for rapidly raising mandates on brands’ sales mixes (starting at 22% of all sales being EVs from 2024) and a ban on sales of new combustion-engined cars from 2030 put the UK among the frontrunners of change.
Yet he has barely been gone a week and there are already suggestions that the current anti-green agenda, which has been triggered by the cost of living crisis, could spill over to a reappraisal of those plans.
