#LondonCalling: PM Sunak erases the EV mandate. and sales plunge 17 % in one month. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion
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🗓️ 6 December 2023
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#LondonCalling: PM Sunak erases the EV mandate. and sales plunge 17 % in one month. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/electric-car-sales-plummet-after-government-u-turn-5f6p3zcpz
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| 0:38.7 | editorial page. |
| 0:39.7 | He's a member as well as writing the political economics column in London and we go to London Times now |
| 0:45.8 | reporting there's trouble with net zero in Germany there is much bigger trouble with |
| 0:51.7 | EVs in London. |
| 0:54.1 | The headline says it, |
| 0:55.3 | Electric car sales plummet after government U-turn. |
| 0:59.0 | The explanation, the Prime Minister's decision to push back the ban on the sale of new petrol and diesel vehicles has sent the electric car market into reverse. |
| 1:08.5 | For the first time since zero emission cars went mainstream. |
| 1:13.2 | The number of registration of new electric cars fell 17% last month. |
| 1:19.0 | So, Joe, they've been subsidizing. |
| 1:21.4 | They're going to stop, either subsidizing they're going to stop either subsidizing or mandating and EVs have |
| 1:27.6 | stopped selling stop selling dramatically is it is that the short version? Pretty much. |
| 1:34.0 | I mean, this goes back to September, I think it was what |
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