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Breakingviews – UK car targets count on the kindness of strangers
Breakingviews - UK car targets count on the kindness of strangers,The UK has followed the European Union in watering down plans to phase out fossil fuel cars – sort of. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has kept a 2030 deadline to end sales of combustion engines, but has now given carmakers more flexibility on how quickly they get there. It’s arguably a less meaningful climbdown than the EU, which last week agreed to let carmakers keep selling old-school motors if they use synthetic carbon-neutral fuels.

Breakingviews – UK car targets count on the kindness of strangers

The UK has followed the European Union in watering down plans to phase out fossil fuel cars – sort of. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has kept a 2030 deadline to end sales of combustion engines, but has now given carmakers more flexibility on how quickly they get there. It’s arguably a less meaningful climbdown than the EU, which last week agreed to let carmakers keep selling old-school motors if they use synthetic carbon-neutral fuels.