Interesting that the clean air zone is starting in Manchester in May of 2022:
https://www.gov.uk/clean-air-zonesThis seems to currently apply to all vehicles except private cars. The local garage owner says that he believes it will apply to small vans and he firmly believes that it will soon be extended to cars.
As I understand it there are far too few electric passenger vehicles in the UK and even less electric svans and HGV and only Amazon seem to have the beginnings of an electric delivery fleet.
As is this looks likely to drive the sales of cleaner ICE engines rather than BEV as there is insufficient supply.
If I wanted to drive up inflation this would be one of the things I would do under the pretence that it is making the air cleaner and that the £10 per day fee is not designed to raise revenue, but it must as van companies will simply put up their prices to cover what they have to spend on new vehicles or upgrades, thence generate additional vat income on top of the £10 per day.
I may have missed something here and there may be big UK BEV manufacturers who will make out like bandits on commercial vehicles, so anyone who thinks this is the case, please post.
Regards,