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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Jasper Jolly

Tesla lobbied UK to strengthen rules on carbon emissions from cars and lorries

Tesla on a UK motorway
Tesla wants the UK government to begin consulting on a zero-emission vehicle mandate for HGVs. Photograph: Robert Lloyd-Ashton/Alamy

Tesla lobbied the UK government to strengthen rules on carbon emissions from cars and lorries, according to documents that also show the electric carmaker continued to push for increased taxes on fossil fuel cars.

The US carmaker, which is run by Elon Musk, pushed for the British government to strengthen its zero-emission vehicle (ZEV) mandate for cars and introduce equivalent rules for heavy goods vehicles (HGVs), in a letter to Lilian Greenwood, the Labour roads minister.

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