It’s the usual approach: fanfares about £650M allocated to green companies and in reality – total nothing. Skoda won’t qualify for Band 1, but made in Europe, whilst Chinese vehicles, heavily subsidised by their government will? Either way, the official list as of yesterday morning at least has only Band 2 vehicles on the list.
Chinese made electric cars are not expected to qualify for any level of the Electric Car Grant due to environmental standards, particularly China’s reliance on coal powered electricity for manufacturing, pollution from mining, though they remain world leader in renewables and don’t put all their eggs in one basket like Millibrain.
My own view, is that China’s EV manufacturers should be included, if only in band 2, because without China’s polution, europe wouldn’t be breathing cleaner air from EV’s & solar!