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Motor industry lobbied for a loophole in UK fossil fuel car ban

Motor industry lobbied for a loophole in UK fossil fuel car ban

26 February 2021

The UK government plan announced in 2020 is to ban new petrol and diesel model cars by 2030, but some fossil-fuelled cars are to be exempt. Now it has emerged that the concession came after lobbying by the UK car-makers' trade body
An electric car at the BMW plant near Oxford

Electric cars' best ever year is a tipping point for green transport

7 January 2021

More electric cars were sold last year than in the previous decade. Fossil fuel-powered cars are not yet consigned to the scrapheap, but they are travelling fast down a one-way road towards it, says Adam Vaughan

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