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Electric vehicles currently make up around just 18% of all registrations in the UK New laws have come into force today that mean car makers need to sell an increasing number of electric vehicles from this year until the ban on sales of new petrol and diesel motors in 2035. Dubbed by minsters as 'the world's most ambitious regulatory framework …
Last year, Grant Shapps, the then transport secretary, announced how “we need the cycling equivalent of death by dangerous driving to close a gap in the law”. Or were Mr Shapps’s announcements last year simply an act of political opportunism.” He added that the decision to try to rely on a private member’s bill, most of which fail, was “deeply …
