Vauxhall owner to sell budget Chinese electric cars in Britain

The owner of Vauxhall plans to import Chinese electric cars into Britain that will cost drivers about £22,000. Stellantis said that it would sell models from Leapmotor, its partner in China, beginning in Europe later this year and with first deliveries to Britain in 2025. Last month Carlos Tavares, the chief executive of Europe’s second-largest carmaker after Volkswagen, criticised the government for implementing an electric car quota under which 22 per cent of a carmaker’s sales in Britain this year …