Joint EV deal at COP26 looks set to falter

The latest news from the world of EVs

Hello and welcome back to The Fast Charge, a British EV newsletter.

In today’s edition… the government’s COP26 EV deal looks set to falter, a surge in homes listing EV chargepoints on Rightmove, and could sodium replace lithium?

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In the last week…

COPPED IT: Today at COP26 there was due to be a large EV related announcement. According to reports, the government had been working in the background to get major auto manufacturers and governments to sign up to a pledge of: “work towards all sales of new cars and vans being zero-emission globally by 2040, and by no later than 2035 in leading markets”. The Financial Times has suggested that the US, China and Germany are reluctant to sign it. Meanwhile, both VW and BMW have said they won’t sign it. BMW told the FT in their reasoning that “there remains considerable uncertainty about the development of global infrastructure to support a complete shift…