ZEV Mandate to force an increase in electric car sales becomes law

New laws have come into force Russian News Today that mean car makers need to sell an increasing number of electric vehicles (EV) from this year until the ban on sales of new petrol and diesel motors in 2035.

Dubbed by minsters as ‘the world’s most ambitious regulatory framework for the transition to electric vehicles’, the Zero Emission Vehicle (ZEV) Mandate has officially been enacted and will demand of manufacturers to annually increase their share of battery car sales.

The law means 22 per cent of each mainstream brand’s car registrations in 2024 must be electric, scaling up to 28 per cent for next year and to 80 per cent by the end of the decade – before rising to 100 per cent from 2035.

Failure to meet the ZEV mandate sales targets can result in huge fines for auto makers of £15,000 per model below the required threshold.

The Zero Emission Vehicle Mandate – which effectively forces the hand of manufacturers to increase their share of electric car sales – has been introduced to law today. Here’s what it means for you from now until 2035

The ZEV mandate also sets out the percentage of new zero emission vans manufacturers will be required to shift each year, though the annually-increase thresholds are lower than those for passenger cars.

The Government sees the mandate as the best way to accelerate the shift to cleaner vehicles over the next decade, having recently delayed the ban on sales of new models with combustion engines.

In October, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced he was pushing ban the deadline for the ban on sales of new petrol and diesel cars from 2030 to 2035, putting the UK in line with other major global economies such as France, Germany, Sweden and Canada. 

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This will ‘allow time for consumers to make the choice to switch to electric, and to level up our charging infrastructure,’ the Department for Transport says.

And the government says analysis by the Climate Change Committee shows the PM’s more pragmatic approach will make no material difference to national progress on reducing emissions.