It’s not the manufacturers pushing its both the UK Government (and opposition parties) and the EU, who, last week confirmed the fan on ICE vehicles.
new cars just don’t appear in ten minutes, as someone who’s working life has been in automotive development and manufacture, it takes a minimum of five years to develop, new platforms have to be designed and developed for new power trains.
the manufacturers have to look at how ICE cars are selling,nand, just like Ford, will stop producing power trains once they become economically unviable. With a really sever EU7 emissions regulation coming, the money isn’t there to meet these changes for a short time.
with Stellantis a company comprising of Peugeot, Citroen, Arbarth, Alfa Romeo, Chrysler, Dodge, DS, Fiat, Jeep, Lancia, Maserati, Mopar, Opel, Ram and Vauxhall, they will consolidate even more to core power trains and models.
they are already changing dealerships to Stellantis owned dealerships and I can see more than one model being sold out of these.
the Automotive industry is changing and, due to legal requirements, will change very quickly