The EV market has shifted this year from direct purchase to more people buying through their employer company car schemes. This has made the "private EV sales" numbers look bad but the industry can't honestly say this is a barrier to "mass market" when 60% of all sales are defined as Fleet.

Every industry wants taxpayer handouts so I get why the SMMT are making a fuss but the data just doesn't back up the case that government needs to act. Now is the time to stay the course with the ZEV mandate and think about how company car EV subsidies can be gently withdrawn too.