The announcement on Friday that the UK government would help fund an increase of public EV chargers to reach a target of 300,000 by 2030 was cautiously welcomed by car makers, but many are still concerned that they remain in the dark about imminent legislation surrounding the switch to EVs that will hurt them and their customers.
The government put the burden of responsibility on car makers to accelerate EV sales by announcing the ban on pure-ICE cars and vans by 2030. That hasn’t been helped by successive cuts in the purchase grant for EVs to just £1500, coupled with a reduction in the maximum price that has cut the number of EVs eligible to just 20.
