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A lineup of seven early electric vehicles parked in front of the Houses of Parliament in London, including a Nissan Leaf, Toyota Prius Plug-in, Audi A3 e-tron, BMW i3, Renault Zoe, Volkswagen Golf GTE and Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV, with a red double-decker bus passing in motion blur behind them.

Britain Just Passed Two Million Electric Cars. It’s Also Six Points Behind Its Own Target. Only in the UK.

The United Kingdom has just passed two million registered electric cars. It is also, simultaneously, missing its own government’s targets by a gap wide enough to park several thousand of them in. This is, it turns out, precisely on brand.…

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Dacia does something that most of the automotive industry considers either admirable or slightly embarrassing: it makes cars that are genuinely affordable without being genuinely terrible. The Logan, the Duster, the Sandero — none of them will win a design award or generate a mid-life crisis, but all of them will start reliably and cost less than a fortnight in Tuscany. The Spring is now the cheapest electric car on sale in the UK at £12,240, which tells you something important about where Dacia fits in the EV story. Cars & Code covers Dacia with appreciation for a brand that has consistently refused to overcomplicate things.