Brexit · Whippet
UK carmakers seek two-year delay – the Whippet requests one after every sprint
Der Hündeler, Edition of Thursday, 12 November 2026 (edition 2)
What happened
The UK car industry is preparing to push the EU for a two-year delay to Brexit tariffs on electric cars, after an initial European proposal suggested a shorter one. Unless the two sides agree, tariffs will apply from 1 January to most electric cars traded between the EU and the UK. The cause is the “rules of origin” on batteries, whose implementation has already been postponed once.
What does this mean for your Whippet?
The Whippet understands the battery problem better than most: thirty seconds at full throttle, then twenty hours recharging under a blanket. Like any battery, it loses range dramatically in the cold; below five degrees it barely makes it to the nearest dog-waste bin. Bred by miners in the north of England who could not afford a racehorse, its rules of origin are impeccably British. A two-year delay strikes it as modest; it routinely postpones anything scheduled after lunch until tomorrow. For Whippets in Switzerland, nothing changes, except that 1 January brings its own unpleasant deadline: the New Year’s Day walk.
What you can do now: Get the dog coat out now. Without it, range drops to the pavement outside the front door.