firstly, due to lack of demand,
images Fiat, the car manufacturer Fiat
will reintroduce a petrol-engined 500 city car in the next two years, the
same 1.0-litre mild-hybrid petrol powertrain from the older-generation 500 will
now be retrofitted into the new 500e,
a bold
move indeed and perhaps a sign of the times by Olivier Francois who confirmed the new
petrol 500 Ibrida will arrive in early 2026 due to a 'slower than anticipated
uptake of EVs across Europe' in an interview with Autocar, the second piece of news concerns councils in the UK getting cold feet about installing on-street electric car chargers, apparently official figures show that the number of on-street electric car chargers installed by councils fell by more than 80 per cent last year!
photograph Ubitricity, an audit of
Government data by the Daily Mail reveals that town halls delivered just 656
charge points last year, this was down from 4,066 the year before, the article
is here, this comment by Tory MP Greg Smith sums it up, 'The lack of charging points is certainly
putting off people from switching from their reliable petrol or diesel cars -
that they can fill up in minutes - to a battery electric vehicle’, adding 'Councils
are not daft and don't see any great revolution happening in electric vehicle
ownership. The 2030 date was always bonkers.' to
put this in perspective, the last Tory government's target was to create
125,000 on-street residential chargers by 2030, if the new Labour government
keeps this, an average of around 58 a day need to be fitted between now and the
end of the decade, I have always said the answer to this nonsense is, Go Green Go
Clean Go Hydrogen!
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