For the first time ever, more new electric vehicles have been sold in the UK over a rolling 12-month period than petrol cars — 516,490 battery EVs versus 504,010 petrol vehicles in the year to May 2026, according to Carbon Brief analysis. It's a genuine milestone in the combustion-to-electric transition. But instead of celebration, the response from Britain's own car industry has been a warning shot: the government's ZEV mandate — which set these targets in...