The government is not giving consumers enough advice on whether they should be buying electric vehicles, according to a leading car industry body.
Stephen Latham of the National Franchised Dealers Association said many people were still confused.
In July 2017, the government announced that new diesel and petrol cars and vans would be banned in the UK from 2040 in a bid to tackle air pollution.
The government is under pressure to bring forward this deadline and ban all sales of new petrol and diesel cars by 2032.
It follows a report by a parliamentary committee that described its plans as "vague and unambitious".
"There's some hold-back on new cars because the consumers are genuinely not certain of which direction to jump in," Mr Latham told Inside Business.
"We could do with some clear guidance from the government, because by holding back on the diesel issue, by not saying it's absolutely taboo, we're actually keeping people in older, dirty diesels, instead of them maybe upgrading to the clean Euro 6 diesels, which are available today."
Full story: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-46309552
Stephen Latham, NFDA’s head of Operations, spoke at BBC’s ‘The Future of the Car Industry’ alongside Erin Baker Editorial Director of Auto Trader, Maria McCarthy, Motoring Journalist and Caroline Willis, Finance Director of Shelbourne Motors. The episode can be accessed online at https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m00018hb
