This year could go down in history for the automotive industry, for the most unusual reason, writes AM's regular columnist Professor Jim Saker, emeritus professor of Loughborough University's business school and president of the Institute of the Motor Industry.
The UK would be wise to appoint a ‘car czar’ charged with coordinating efforts to promote electric vehicles,
Dealers have shared concerns that the Government's Zero Emission Vehicle (ZEV) Mandate will create a forced new electric vehicle (EV) market in 2024.
A director of an AM100 dealer group has branded the UK Government’s zero emissions vehicle strategy “a bloody shambles” after targets were reaffirmed by the Department for Transport yesterday.
The Department for Transport (DfT) has officially announced the implementation of a Zero Emissions Vehicle (ZEV) mandate slated to take effect next year.
Industry veteran Suzuki GB director Dale Wyatt shared his thoughts and a direct plea for modern automotive retail leaders to rethink their plans in changing conditions.
Carmakers are facing fines of more than £600m, if new Zero Emission Vehicles (ZEV) mandate rules, for selling non-electric cars and vans, go ahead.
Car dealer groups and their EV-buying customers have a month to give input to a House of Lords investigation into electric vehicles (EVs) and the UK Government's strategy to halt the sale of new internal combustion engine (ICE) cars and vans.
AM's regular columnist Professor Jim Saker, emeritus professor at Loughborough University's business school and president of the Institute of the Motor Industry, accuses the UK Government of being "in denial" of its EV policy's opening the floodgates to cheap Chinese imports.
Jim Saker, emeritus professor at Loughborough University's business school and president of the Institute of the Motor Industry, shares his thoughts about the prospects for future production of electric vehicles in the UK since Brexit.
The Office for Zero Emission Vehicles (OZEV) has increased the end-user limit for plug-in van grant applications by 50%, from 1,000 to 1,500 per financial year.
Auto Trader has called for incentives and tax breaks to make electric vehicles (EV) more affordable and put the UK Government’s plan to ban pure petrol and diesel vehicles by 2030 “back on track”.
Members of the Vehicle Remarketing Association (VRA) will gain insight from the Office for Zero Emission Vehicles (OZEV) head of vehicle policy at a meeting later this month.
Thoughts about the risk of distress sales caused by governments that set short-sighted and disruptive targets to rapidly shift consumer habits from AM's regular columnist Professor Jim Saker, director of the Centre for Automotive Management at Loughborough University's business school and president of the Institute of the Motor Industry.
Stellantis and Ford remain bullish about their electrified future despite the UK Government’s threat of £15,000 per car fines for OEMs who breach its proposed electric vehicle (EV) sales mandate.
In his latest 'guest opinion' column for AM Fraser Brown, managing director of the automotive consultancy MotorVise, spells out why the 'road to zero' must remain a one-way street.
The Government has pledged to stick to its plan to ban the sale of new petrol and diesel cars from 2030 as it revealed its Powering Up Britain strategy to transform the UK’s energy infrastructure.
Seven in 10 car dealers say that not enough is being done to support the transition of electric vehicles (EVs) and half of those believe the Government is to blame.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt has frozen fuel duty, boosted repairs to pothole damaged roads and targeted solutions to recruitment issues in his Budget statement.
More than half of motorists support calls for a cut in fuel duty in next week’s budget, according to the Startline Used Car Tracker.
