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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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Volkswagen invented the people’s car, built the Beetle, and then built the Golf — one of the most important automotive benchmarks ever produced. It has also been caught cheating on emissions tests, invested billions in an EV transition that has proceeded with varying success, and found itself competing with Chinese manufacturers on its home turf in ways that would have seemed implausible a decade ago. The ID range is capable and improving. The internal politics are complex. The history is extraordinary. Cars & Code covers Volkswagen with the seriousness the world’s second-largest car company demands and the honesty its recent chapters require.