EU & Brexit Bunker

[First Aspect]

We can still make ICE and electric cars to sell to the EU regardless of whether we harmonise on this point. And the EU can still sell us ICE and/or electric cars depending on our sovereign decision.

Unless you want a land rover or Aston Martin, the options are limited. I was more thinking that we will need to be buying electric cars under a different supply/demand regime than we had hoped. More demand due to UK legislation, less supply due to EU regulation. It's going to keep prices high and perpetuate the offset between EV and ICE costs for longer. I could be wrong.

 

[PurplePenguin]

We need more than "heading in the right direction" Time is of the essence ie we have less than very limited time to address out trashing of the planet and just facing the right direction won't solve anything.

The slower we more the worse the climate damage and the higher the cost (flooding, extreme weather, immigration from areas becoming uninhabitable, health impacts eg as diseases like dengue hit the UK, etc.)

We need ambitious targets. A saying I seem to remember "Aim high. You might miss your target but you won't shoot your foot off".

The EU tends to gloss over the big environmental issues and focus on things like USB-C cables. See also fishing.