Government incentives will help solidify a future shift to cleaner energy, in addition to buffering electric vehicles (EVs) from the trend of declining sales faced by the wider automotive sector during the Covid-19 pandemic, attendees heard during a Fastmarkets webinar this week.
"The question with incentives is always whether they just pull sales forward, and to some extent, we do feel like that is happening," Al Bedwell, director at Global Powertrain, part of independent sector services provider LMC Automotive."It helps to enhance the environment for BEVs in general. There are more on the road, it gives...