Thursday, December 26, 2024

Ford refuses to ditch gasoline cars to sell electric cars

Ford is not going to put restrictions on the sale of either diesel or petrol cars. Not even if the brand can get in trouble with new, English rules.

As it is now, Ford – and all other car brands present in England – must sell 22 percent electric cars before the end of the year. But the Ford people don't care.

Secondly, country manager Lisa Brankin has no intention of placing restrictions on her dealers. At least not when it comes to petrol cars.

She tells that in an interview with Autocar .

However, Ford is not the only car brand that is critical of the British government's demand that 22 percent of all new cars this year must run exclusively on electricity.

Criticism has rained so much down on the rule that the government is now ready to withdraw it in a 'dialogue with the industry', as it is called. Read more about it here .

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Nissan is one of the brands that has been most critical of the rule. Because even though the Japanese brand has serious financial problems, and perhaps only a year left to live, production continues at the brand's factories in England.

But it cannot continue like this if the country's government enforces a requirement for a certain percentage of electric cars. And make that percentage bigger and bigger until 100 percent in 2030.

In fact, Nissan's English management directly warns that the requirement will cost the country's car industry dearly in the form of thousands of lost jobs and just as many unemployed. And now Ford also joins the chorus of critics.

The situation is different with Volkswagen. The outgoing director of the car brand, which has no production in England, thinks that there is not enough support to be obtained for the electric cars in particular.

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