FOLLOW UP: PROPOSED MANCHESTER CAZ TO BE REVIEWED
Greater Manchester’s Mayor has announced that the proposed Clean Air Zone will be reviewed, ahead of the implementation on 30 May. There are concerns that it will impact businesses heavily. Andy Burnham has called on the Government to do more to support those trying to transition to cleaner vehicles. The CAZ will only charge commercial and private hire vehicles, not private cars. For more on this story, click here for the BBC News article.
FOLLOW UP: OXFORD ZEZ GOES LIVE FEBRUARY 2022
Oxfordshire County Council and Oxford City Council have announced they will be opening the city’s first Zero Emission Zone (ZEZ) in February this year. Initially it will be a very small number of streets in the city centre that will charge petrol and diesel vehicles to enter. The second phase will be larger but has yet to be confirmed in size and when it will come into force. To learn more, click the Motoring Research article here.
To find out more about clean air zones and if you might be affected, click this link to a Motoring Research explanatory.
If you wish to find out if your vehicle will be required to pay to enter a CAZ, click here for the .GOV checker.
NEW CAR REGISTRATION FIGURES FOR DECEMBER AND 2022
The December 2021 New Car Registration figures have been released by the SMMT, which you can find out more about by clicking their link here.
Tristan Young has also taken a dive into the figures and has written a very good thread on Twitter, adding more context to the details. Click here to read through that.
Autocar has also written an interesting article on the best selling car of 2021, the Ford Transit. Click here to find out how and why that happened.
SSANGYONG BOUGHT FOR $255 MILLION
The struggling Korean car maker, SsangYong has been bought for $255 million, by a local consortium which included EV maker Edison Motors. This allows Mahindra to divest itself of the company’s shares after it took up 75% ownership when it bought the collapsed company in 2010. For more information, click here for the Automotive News Europe article.
TOYOTA TO REMANUFACTURE PRE-OWNED CARS
Toyota is going to remanufacture and heavily refurbish cars up to three times to improve the longevity of their cars and maintain a longer direct contact with customers. To find out more about this story,
