From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT
By Paul Homewood
The Authorities’s Zero Emission Car (ZEV) mandate particularly refers to motor producers – although there appears to be some ambiguity between “bought” and “produced”.
Nevertheless there isn’t a data supplied as to how non-UK producers will handled, and the way overseas corporations might be compelled to satisfy the mandate underneath UK legislation. I there FOId the DfT, they usually despatched me this response:
So, as I suspected, there isn’t a method the Authorities can truly implement its mandate with non-UK producers.
Suppose BMW missed its goal by 50,000 automobiles. At £15000 per automotive, that’s a penalty of £750 million – which they clearly should not going to pay, irrespective of how a lot the Authorities huffs and puffs.
And if the Authorities tried to limit market entry, I think there could be an almighty row with the EU. It’s one I additionally suspect the Authorities would lose within the European courts.
That is significantly related provided that German producers are hoping to proceed focussing on ICEs, now that the EU has an exemption for “zero carbon fuels”.
But additionally notice this part:
It could be straightforward for European producers to bypass the mandate, just by pre-registering automobiles for 3 months earlier than exporting them. By doing so, they’d simply undercut home producers, who must embrace the price of the mandate within the value of their ICEs.
It appears naive within the excessive for the Authorities to simply assume that BMW, Renault and all the remaining would willingly collapse to UK calls for. However that almost sums up the entire lunacy of Web Zero.
Perhaps authorized beagles on the market would possibly verify my logic and see if I’ve missed something.
