Labour will allow new hybrid cars to remain on the market until 2035 despite bringing forward a ban on the sale of new petrol or diesel-powered cars.
Sir Keir Starmer committed Labour in its manifesto to scrapping the sale of “new cars with internal combustion engines” by 2030 as part of his plans to hit net zero by 2050.
This led to concerns in the car industry that new hybrids, which use both petrol and diesel engines in conjunction with a battery, such as Nissan’s best-selling Qashqai, could be hit by the ban.
The government has now clarified that “some” hybrid vehicles will continue to be sold between 2030 and 2035 after a report in The Sunday Telegraph. Concerns about range and the availability