{
  "id": 6143500,
  "title": "Richard Tice: A Reform government would scrap EV mandate to save Jaguar Land Rover",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/07/richard-tice-a-reform-government-would-scrap-ev-mandate-to-save",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-09-07T14:57:41.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "City AM",
    "slug": "city-am",
    "url": "https://www.cityam.com/richard-tice-a-reform-government-would-scrap-ev-mandate-to-save-jaguar-land-rover/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Richard Tice, the business, trade, and energy spokesman for Reform UK, has criticized the government's Zero Emission Vehicle (ZEV) mandate. He argues that this policy is detrimental to the British automotive industry, particularly to Jaguar Land Rover (JLR), which is facing thousands of job losses due to the company's struggle to meet the mandate's arbitrary and escalating quotas for electric vehicle sales. Tice contends that the ZEV mandate is a self-inflicted wound that targets British consumers who are unwilling to purchase expensive, battery-powered vehicles at the pace demanded by bureaucrats.\n\nMoreover, Tice highlights the exorbitant energy tariffs and unreliable, heavily subsidized green energy policies as contributing factors to the industry's predicament. These factors have driven up the cost of manufacturing cars in the UK, making it more expensive than in countries like China and the United States. As a result, British car manufacturers are being forced to offshoretire their production to countries with less stringent regulations, leading to the loss of high-paying engineering jobs and a reduction in our country's carbon footprint.\n\nTice claims that a Reform UK government would immediately reverse the ZEV mandate, restore consumer choice for British drivers, and prioritize pragmatic industrial policy. He proposes to impose heavy tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles to protect domestic manufacturers and to slash industrial energy costs by tapping into abundant, native British energy sources. Tice emphasizes that the automotive sector's revival is crucial for the nation's economic health and sovereignty, urging the government to prioritize economic reality over environmentally driven policy decisions.",
  "summary": "By forcing companies like JLR to wind down profitable internal combustion engine models ahead of true consumer demand, ministers have effectively forced our flagship manufacturer to cut off its own revenue streams, says Richard Tice For decades, Jaguar Land Rover has stood a proud symbol of West Midlands manufacturing might. Yet today, thousands of highly skilled [...]",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}