The Department for Transport (DfT) is set to restore the 2030 phase-out date for the sale of new petrol and diesel cars.
According to Fleet News, the DfT are ready to publish further details in 'due course' to 'provide certainty' to manufacturers.
However, there was no mention of the changes in the King's Speech, which sets out the UK Government's legislative plan.
It also remains to be seen if the DfT were only referring to cars in its plans or if the deadline will be brought forward from 2035 to 2030 for fossil-fuelled vans as well.
Furthermore, there is uncertainty over how a new 2030 deadline will apply to both mild and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs).
The original legislation stated that the sale of new hybrid cars and vans that can drive a 'significant distance with no carbon coming out of the tailpipe' would be allowed until 2035.
The last government had originally introduced a ban on the sale of new internal combustion engine (ICE) cars and vans from 2030 in 2020. However, in what the previous Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, described as a 'new approach to achieving net zero', the phase-out date for sales of new ICE cars and vans was pushed back five years to 2035, last year.
During the election campaign, the Labour Party pledged to reinstate the original deadline of 2030 for cars but made no mention of vans.
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