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This month Rishi Sunak changed the government’s climate change commitments claiming politicians had not been “honest with the public” about the cost of net zero. The ban on the sale of new petrol cars by 2030 will now be pushed back to 2035.
Ford, the best-selling marque in the UK, led an industry backlash stating: “Our business needs three things from the government: ambition, commitment and consistency. A relaxation of 2030 would undermine all three.”
Horace Tonge photographed the production line at Ford’s site in Dagenham, Essex in 1950. The site now houses its research establishment driving the transition of its Transit van to zero emissions.
In 1966 we wrote: “Ford Motor Company in Britain and America are intensifying their development of a lightweight battery-powered
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