The car industry’s reaction to the UK’s new zero-emission vehicle mandate hasn’t been positive, not least as some makers are unable to comply – and here we can hear echoes from early-1970s America.
Americans had become acutely aware of environmental damage post-war, primarily through the smog hanging over many major cities, and so it became a key issue in the 1968 US presidential election.
That was won by Republican Richard Nixon, who said in his 1970 state of the union address:…
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Source: https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/from-the-archive/archive-when-american-cars-swapped-muscle-mpg