Society of Motor Manufacturers announcing this morning that car production fell by almost 10% in August after 6 successive months of growth. I guess that some of this might be intentional (to save costs), but if they want to stimulate demand it would be an odd thing to do to hike up prices.
As for EVs, the industry is saying that they think that the ‘early adopter’ stage is coming to an end, so they will have to work harder to convert the next tranche of people. Again, hiking prices won’t do this when the price premium is already one of the biggest stumbling points.
As I said before, October’s APs may have been agreed before some of this info was known, especially the postponement of the 2030/35 cut off, but I can see APs on EVs dropping over the coming months and years.