Mobilityuser, it’s nothing to do with Brexit, and more to do with the EU killing its fatted calf, the European motor industry, by allowing Chinese cars in at great numbers and cheaper than locally built. In China, the manufacturing bubble has burst, with thousands of unsold cars, so they are dropping prices to shift them
companies like VW are now finding it cheaper to build in China and import back to the EU.
as for battery size, the majority of cars on the scheme are with the 77kwh battery, the largest available in bulk.
as tine goes on, battery ability will improve just like ICE cars have done, such as the Nissan leaf,which when brought out, was a much smaller battery, but the smaller battery second hand leafs still sell well, as they are used as city cars.
Future for ICE cars? I see vehicle excise tax rising on petrol cars (deisel is virtually dead) the cost of petrol rising, and less petrol stations being only petrol, rather, as is happening, turning into charging stations, with less and less pumps, more cities banning ICE cars making for many, the use of one prohibitive.
we are now in a transition tgat no political party is willing to stop, ICE only manufacturers will be destroyed by the Chines ev revolution im sorry to say.
At the moment small manufacturers such as Aston Martin, Lamborghini, and many others have been allowed concessions to not meet the EU emission ratings and Californias ratings, but Biden has now closed that loophole from 2025 making it impossible to sell these cars.
tge EU emissions EU7 and 8 are currently impossible to meet with ICE cars, a deliberate action.