{"id":374294,"date":"2025-04-09T08:54:58","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T06:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=374294"},"modified":"2025-04-09T08:55:00","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T06:55:00","slug":"rearranging-the-ev-deckchairs-on-the-titanic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=374294","title":{"rendered":"Rearranging The EV Deckchairs on the\u00a0Titanic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Paul Homewood<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The long-awaited announcement of the new package for rollout of EVs.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

But strip away the waffle, greenwash and gaslighting, and we are left with rearranging to deckchairs on the Titanic to a higher deck, so that they don\u2019t sink below the waves quite as soon!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Allowing sales of hybrids until 2035 was already existing policy, but will be pretty worthless anyway as the ZEV mandate after 2030 will inevitably squeeze them out of the market sooner rather than later. Similarly the swapping of CO2 savings on hybrids for ZEV credits is already in operation. The new proposal will merely extend the arrangement until 2030, which may be of help to the likes of Toyota, who have focussed on hybrids.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For most carmakers though, there is little assistance at all. The idea that they can build up \u201cdebts\u201d for underhitting ZEV targets and repay them \u201cwhen\u201d they go over targets in future years is akin to taking out a payday loan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If they can\u2019t hit this year\u2019s target of 28%, then what chance do they have of achieving 33% next year or 80% in 2030?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The long-awaited announcement of the new package for rollout of EVs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":374302,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691834346,691829997,691828406,691820973,691818154],"class_list":{"0":"post-374294","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-british-business","9":"tag-carbon-dioxide-co","10":"tag-electric-vehicles-evs-2","11":"tag-internal-combustion-engine-ice","12":"tag-net-zero","14":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/0-Titanic.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-1zn0","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":419470,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=419470","url_meta":{"origin":374294,"position":0},"title":"Electric car charger rollout suffers slowdown in blow to\u00a0Labour","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"02\/01\/2026","format":false,"excerpt":"Recent reports from late December 2025 and early January 2026 highlight a significant slowdown in the installation of public electric vehicle (EV) chargers in the UK, marking the first year-on-year decline in the rate of new additions. 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