Abolish the zero emission vehicle (ZEV) mandate
“The Conservatives would abolish the ZEV mandate.”
- Promised
Where it stands
The Conservatives are not in government, so the card stays at Promised; the party's policy pages say the next Conservative Government will completely abolish the Zero Emission Vehicle (ZEV) mandate. Filed under economic affairs, not housing and environment, because the mandate regulates car and van makers' sales (transport and manufacturing are economic affairs in the COFOG classification the ledger uses) and the pledge was made in a statement on car-industry job losses.
What has happened
- Sep 2026Conservative frontbencher Julia Lopez tells the Commons the Conservatives would abolish the ZEV mandate, Promised
About the cost
No costing published for abolishing the mandate itself. In December 2025 the party said that scrapping the non-research and development subsidy programmes linked to the mandate, a separate measure, would save £3.8bn over the next decade; that is a ten-year total, so no yearly figure is shown.
More detail
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