Electric cars will never be a mass-market solution to climate change and should not get government subsidies, the chief executive of Jaguar Land Rover, in what I hope will be a come back-to-haunt-him statement.
Ralf Speth said it was wrong to subsidise "poor electric vehicles" and nationwide charging stations. "At this time I am not a very big friend of electric vehicles, the batteries are too expensive …the customer must be very rich, and can only use [them] in mega-cities [where there are charging points]. Should we do it only for the rich?"
That made me laugh coming from the man that sells £80,000 Range Rovers.
