Murdoch who owns the Times has significant interests in the oil industry but I’m not inferring that this influences articles in his papers….
I dont know if this is the beginning of a trend but last year his good friend Nadine Dorries removed all barriers to him interfering in the editorial independence of the newspapers he owns. So expect headlines like “Ownership of EVs leads to impotence” or similar journalistic jems!
However he may just be getting miffed because EV sales have overtaken diesel in the UK for the first time in 2022.