found this link, but says makers will not be fined

That's not what I read:

If companies miss targets, they would be charged £15,000 per non-ZEV car.

I suppose it would be helpful to point out that the story is, of course, complete nonsense. What's actually happened is that the Government has published a consultation about how we would get to their zero emissions target and have posed a number of questions for people to respond to. As usual, the more reactionary press has turned this into what the Government will definitely be doing to get people excited.

And to (hopefully) avoid the usual detour, yes, I appreciate that the more progressive publications do exactly the same thing when it suits their narrative.

www.gov.uk/government/consultations/a-zero-emissio...k

The government already uses taxation and expenditure policies to drive car buying, use and ownership behaviours in the direction they want:

• the level of fuel taxes
• premium rates for first five years for cars over £40k
• previously imposed tax depending on CO2 outputs
• provides subsidies to rail and buses to encourage public transport use
• low emissions zones
• etc etc etc

If the govt want to encourage sales of EVs for what they regard as sound environmental reasons, they can simply do what they have always done - no change there!.

A better, more positive, strategy may be to remove the barriers to EV ownership by subsidising charging point installation and regulating pricing, rather than fines for selling to many ICE cars.