My biggest worry, as a tax payer, is that rather than admit that the targets are unachievable and alter them, they will try to distort the market through subsidies which are, of course, funded by tax payers.
I suspect that they might review the decision to apply full road tax to EVs, but that loss of revenue will need to be found from elsewhere.
Direct subsidies are never a good thing IMHO. If something can’t sell on its own merits then it’s not good enough or affordable enough, and why should all tax payers have to fund something that only a proportion want?
The bigger problem though is that subsidies tend to benefit the manufacturers rather than the consumers. Many will recall that when the last government reduced the subsidies on EVs, manufacturers magically managed to drop their prices by similar amounts. Equally, in the housing industry, ‘Help to Buy’ was known in the trade as ‘Help to buy housebuilders yachts’ as all it did was push up asking prices, resulting in bigger profit margins. There are many reasons why the ‘free market’, where supply is driven by demand and nothing else, tends to be favoured by economists.