The biggest parties have had their say, but what about the other main runners?
LIB DEM MANIFESTO PLEDGES
• Reinstate the 2030 ban on the sale of ICE cars with the stipulation that all new cars and LCVs sold from this point onwards emit zero emissions i.e. not even hybrids
• Reintroduce the discontinued plug-in car grant to make buying a new EV cheaper
• Roll out more public and on-street chargepoints, and reduce public-charging VAT to five per cent, bringing it in-line with the cost of home charging
• “Protect motorists from ripoffs, including unfair insurance and petrol prices” by launching an investigation into sky-high fuel prices and expanding Rural Fuel Duty Relief to more parts of the country, including Cornwall, Yorkshire and rural areas of Scotland and Wales
• Pledge £600million to fix Britain’s potholes, plus provide local authorities with more power and cash to maintain roads
SNP MANIFESTO PLEDGES
• Establish a new Low Income EV Car Leasing Fund, just like the one in France. This would cost £500million and “enable 50,000 EV leases a year to benefit low-income families”
• Quadruple number of public EV chargers in Scotland to 30,000 by 2030
• Devolve road tax and fuel duty to Scottish Parliament and eliminate VAT when using on-street EV chargers
• Reverse £1.3billion cut to Scottish capital budget to fund roads and other infrastructure, as well as “press the UK Government to fulfil their commitment to fund improvements to the A75”
• All “appropriate roads in built-up areas will have a safer speed limit of 20mph by 2025”
REFORM MANIFESTO PLEDGES
• Scrap UK’s net zero targets, including the planned ban on the sale of new ICE cars
• Remove the ZEV mandate and ensure there’s “no legal requirement for manufacturers to sell el
