ALL petrol and diesel cars to be banned from 2040: Pollution crackdown could also see tolls introduced on filthiest roads to improve air quality as electrical vehicles set to take over
Published: 22:46 BST, twenty five July two thousand seventeen | Updated: 15:34 BST, twenty six July two thousand seventeen
Fresh petrol and diesel cars will be banned from two thousand forty to improve air quality.
The crackdown could also see the introduction of levies on busy roads for owners of the most polluting vehicles.
And hopes of a major scrappage scheme to help those who were encouraged to buy diesels emerge to have been dashed.
The strategy will be launched today by ministers Michael Gove and Chris Grayling.
It was coerced on the Government by defeat in a High Court case on air pollution.
From 2040, drivers will be able to buy electrical cars only – ending the near 150-year reign of the internal combustion engine.
Mr Gove today hailed Britain as leading the world, joining France and Norway on the path to a low emission future on Britain’s roads.
The crackdown could also see the introduction of levies on busy roads for owners of the most polluting vehicles
The strategy will be launched today by ministers Michael Gove and Chris Grayling (right)
From around 2020, town halls will be permitted to levy extra charges on diesel drivers using the UK’s eighty one most polluted routes if air quality fails to improve.
Diesels might even be banned at peak times. Judges ruled the Government was cracking the law by permitting concentrations of nitrogen dioxide to build up in urban areas.
Mr Gove told Big black cock Radio Four’s Today programme the giant switches were essential.
He said: ‘We can’t carry on with diesel and petrol cars, not just because of the health problems that they cause, but also because the emissions that they cause would mean that we would accelerate climate switch, do harm to our planet and to the next generation.’
Asked if there was no alternative to more wind farms and nuclear power energy stations, Mr Gove replied: ‘There is no alternative to embracing fresh technology.’
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Told the Conservatives had a manifesto promise against more wind farms, Mr Gove said: ‘The Conservatives had a manifesto promise to ensure by two thousand fifty there would be no diesel or petrol vehicles on our roads.
‘Today we’re confirming that should mean no fresh diesel or petrol vehicles by 2040, and critically President Macron in France has a similar aspiration. and Norway wants to reach that purpose by two thousand twenty five so we are, fairly rightly, in a position of global leadership in shaping the fresh technology.’
ClientEarth, an environmental law organisation, argued successfully that ministers were not doing enough to tackle the issue.
A judge ordered ministers to unveil the fresh air quality strategy to cut illegal levels of pollution from diesel vehicles by next Monday.
The Government also faces fines from the European Commission, which has sent Britain a final warning to obey with EU air pollution boundaries for NO2 or face a case at the European Court of Justice.
From 2040, drivers will be able to buy electrical cars only – ending the near 150-year reign of the internal combustion engine
From around 2020, town halls will be permitted to levy extra charges on diesel drivers using the UK’s eighty one most polluted routes if air quality fails to improve
Any suggestion that drivers of diesels should be penalised will be greeted with anger from motoring organisations. They point out that the last Labour government had encouraged people to buy the vehicles.
It was thought that efficient diesel engines were the best way to cut greenhouse gas emissions. It later emerged that the nitrogen dioxide they emit was harming air quality.
Levels have been above legal boundaries in almost ninety per cent of urban areas in the UK since 2010.
The toxic fumes are estimated to cause 23,500 early deaths a year and the problem was announced a public health emergency by a cross-party committee last year.
Fresh guidance to councils will see them urged to introduce a range of measures to bring down pollution.
These include making buses more environmentally-friendly, switching the phasing of traffic lights, removing speed bumps and switching road layouts. Town halls will be told to do all they can to avoid hitting diesel drivers, who bought the cars in good faith, with punitive measures.
But if these do not work, the Government will permit town halls to charge drivers of the muddiest vehicles using the most polluted roads.
They could also restrict the times of day when they can use these roads – banning them during peak hours, for example. Town halls will not be permitted to bring in city-wide confinements. They will only be able to take activity on the eighty one most polluted roads in the country.
Pressed on charges to inject city centres and other areas with high air pollution, Mr Gove cited London Mayor Sadiq Khan’s plan to introduce fresh charges before adding: ‘I don’t believe that it is necessary to bring in charging but we will work with local authorities in order to determine what the best treatment is.
‘If a local authority believes that charging is necessary in order to secure compliance then we’ll work to ensure that plan be implemented appropriately, but on the evidence I’ve seen while charging could bring local authorities in to compliance with the law, it’s not necessary.’
Mr Gove described charging as a ‘blunt instrument’, adding he would choose a ‘series of surgical interventions’ as they are ‘fairer’ to drivers and ‘likely to be more effective, more quickly’.
The clean air plan will be unveiled by Mr Gove’s Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and Mr Grayling’s Department for Transport. The Government said poor air quality was the largest environmental risk to public health
Evidence from the World Health Organisation shows that older people, children, people with pre-existing lung and heart conditions, and people on lower incomes may be most at risk, a spokesman said.
Mr Gove will tell councils to concentrate its act to reduce emissions on some of the busiest roads and junctions. Analysis of more than 1,800 of Britain’s major roads by the government’s Joint Air Quality Unit shows that eighty one – four per cent – are affected, with thirty three roads outside London.
In many areas – including Nottingham, Bolton, Bristol, Cardiff and Middlesbrough – a single road is affected. Albeit ministers have not ruled out charging and restricting access to polluting cars at the busiest times, they want town halls to harass all other options very first. An extra £255million will be given to councils to help them bring in the plans, which will have to be drawn up by the end of 2018.
The future? More electrified cars could be seen on the roads after the ban
The Government will also invest money in a Clean Air Fund. Councils will be able to bid for money to support improvements that avoid the need for limitations on polluting vehicles. But ministers accepted that if this did not succeed in reducing emissions, councils may need to consider limitations on polluting vehicles using affected roads.
It could mean preventing polluting vehicles using some of the roads at certain times of the day – or introducing charging, as London mayor Sadiq Khan has announced.
A source said: ‘The Government is clear that local authorities should harass other options before opting to hit drivers with fresh charges for using vehicles they bought in good faith. ‘Any limitations or charging on polluting vehicles should be time-limited and lifted as soon as air pollution is within legal thresholds and the risk of future beaches has passed.’
A consultation will also be launched in the autumn on mitigation measures including a possible scrappage scheme to support drivers affected by any limitations on polluting vehicles.’
Last week a cross-party group of MPs wrote to Mr Gove demanded restricted access for polluting vehicles in urban areas.
Electrified mini built in UK: Fat boost for Brexit Britain as BMW defies Remoaners with car plant pledge on day of economic good news
BMW delivered a vote of confidence in post-Brexit Britain yesterday as it pledged to build the electrified Mini here.
Having previously warned it could stir production to the Netherlands, the German car giant exposed the next generation of the car will be assembled at its historic home in Cowley, Oxford.
The very first fully electrical Mini E will roll off the production line in 2019, just as Britain cuts ties with the EU.
Going for a spin: The BMW Mini factory in Oxford. The German car giant exposed the next generation of the car will be assembled at its historic home in Cowley, Oxford
The electrified drivetrain – the components that transfer power from the transmission to the wheels – will be built in Germany, before being shipped to the UK.
Bosses at BMW had told shareholders that the electrical Mini could be manufactured at its smaller plant in the Netherlands, as they ratcheted up pressure on ministers to thrash out a favourable deal for the car industry in Brexit negotiations.
There had also been mounting speculation that the rock-hard would build a plant in Germany.
But yesterday BMW became the latest international carmaker to back Britain, with Nissan, Jaguar Land Rover and Toyota all exposing plans to ramp up production and invest in their UK car plants.
It also became the latest manufacturer to outline plans to boost production of electrical cars. BMW said it would be able to suggest a fully electrified version of any fresh model of BMW or Mini launched from 2020, if there was enough request.
The very first fully electrical Mini E will roll off the production line in 2019, just as Britain cuts ties with the EU
BMW said it would be able to suggest a fully electrified version of any fresh model of BMW or Mini launched from 2020, if there was enough request
Tory MPs last night described the rigid’s decision as a ‘clear endorsement’ of British car manufacturing, its workforce and its long term economic prospects.
It is also a boost to the Four,500 workers who churn out around 1,000 Minis a day at the 100-acre plant. BMW employs 24,000 staff in the UK, from the factory floor to its dealerships, including the Rolls-Royce factory in Sussex, and other plants in Birmingham and Swindon.
Business secretary Greg Clark, who is said to have met BMW board member Ian Robertson four times this year, said: ‘This landmark decision is a vote of confidence in the determination of our industrial strategy to make Britain the go-to place in the world for the next generation of vehicles.
‘BMW’s decision recognises the strength of the excellent workforce, our record of innovation and the productive relationship inbetween the automotive sector and the Government. The automotive industry is a good British success story and the Mini is a big part of that.’
BMW’s stir comes after a string of dire warnings from the car industry about the harm from Brexit.
Tory MPs last night described the rigid’s decision as a ‘clear endorsement’ of British car manufacturing, its workforce and its long term economic prospects
BMW said that it was committed to selling 100,000 electrified vehicles – hybrids or electrical cars – this year, as many as it has sold in total since production began four years ago
The motor trade assets the SMMT has described leaving the EU without a free trade deal as the largest ‘threat to the car industry for a generation’, amid fears that hefty tariffs will be imposed. Car makers have warned that the prospect of tariffs could thrust up the cost of manufacturing, forcing them to increase their prices.
With eighty per cent of the 1.7million cars built in the UK exported – mainly to the EU – some are worried that plants in the UK will no longer be able to challenge.
Last night pro-Brexit MPs and City experts said common sense had prevailed. Tormentor Bill Cash, Tory MP for Stone, said: ‘The doomsayers and the prophets of fear are being given a lesson in practical common sense. This is an utterly significant endorsement of the British workforce, and British car making.’
Charlie Elphicke, Conservative MP for Dover and Deal and a supporter of the Switch Britain campaign group, said: ‘The fact that this iconic car will be built in Britain is a fat vote of confidence in the UK economy and good news for British jobs.
‘This is yet further evidence that Britain remains an attractive place to invest, with companies looking to develop the technologies of tomorrow here in the UK today.’
David Buik, a veteran City commentator who works for stockbroker Panmure Gordon, said: ‘We’re the 2nd largest car assembly country in Europe for good reason. There is absolutely no need to budge production elsewhere as we have the innovation, abilities, driver and zest to take on all comers.’
BMW said that it was committed to selling 100,000 electrified vehicles – hybrids or electrified cars – this year, as many as it has sold in total since production embarked four years ago.
All petrol and diesel cars to be banned from 2040, Daily Mail Online
ALL petrol and diesel cars to be banned from 2040: Pollution crackdown could also see tolls introduced on muddiest roads to improve air quality as electrified vehicles set to take over
Published: 22:46 BST, twenty five July two thousand seventeen | Updated: 15:34 BST, twenty six July two thousand seventeen
Fresh petrol and diesel cars will be banned from two thousand forty to improve air quality.
The crackdown could also see the introduction of levies on busy roads for owners of the most polluting vehicles.
And hopes of a major scrappage scheme to help those who were encouraged to buy diesels emerge to have been dashed.
The strategy will be launched today by ministers Michael Gove and Chris Grayling.
It was coerced on the Government by defeat in a High Court case on air pollution.
From 2040, drivers will be able to buy electrical cars only – ending the near 150-year reign of the internal combustion engine.
Mr Gove today hailed Britain as leading the world, joining France and Norway on the path to a low emission future on Britain’s roads.
The crackdown could also see the introduction of levies on busy roads for owners of the most polluting vehicles
The strategy will be launched today by ministers Michael Gove and Chris Grayling (right)
From around 2020, town halls will be permitted to levy extra charges on diesel drivers using the UK’s eighty one most polluted routes if air quality fails to improve.
Diesels might even be banned at peak times. Judges ruled the Government was violating the law by permitting concentrations of nitrogen dioxide to build up in urban areas.
Mr Gove told Big black cock Radio Four’s Today programme the large switches were essential.
He said: ‘We can’t carry on with diesel and petrol cars, not just because of the health problems that they cause, but also because the emissions that they cause would mean that we would accelerate climate switch, do harm to our planet and to the next generation.’
Asked if there was no alternative to more wind farms and nuclear power energy stations, Mr Gove replied: ‘There is no alternative to embracing fresh technology.’
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Share this article
Told the Conservatives had a manifesto promise against more wind farms, Mr Gove said: ‘The Conservatives had a manifesto promise to ensure by two thousand fifty there would be no diesel or petrol vehicles on our roads.
‘Today we’re confirming that should mean no fresh diesel or petrol vehicles by 2040, and critically President Macron in France has a similar aspiration. and Norway wants to reach that objective by two thousand twenty five so we are, fairly rightly, in a position of global leadership in shaping the fresh technology.’
ClientEarth, an environmental law organisation, argued successfully that ministers were not doing enough to tackle the issue.
A judge ordered ministers to unveil the fresh air quality strategy to cut illegal levels of pollution from diesel vehicles by next Monday.
The Government also faces fines from the European Commission, which has sent Britain a final warning to obey with EU air pollution boundaries for NO2 or face a case at the European Court of Justice.
From 2040, drivers will be able to buy electrified cars only – ending the near 150-year reign of the internal combustion engine
From around 2020, town halls will be permitted to levy extra charges on diesel drivers using the UK’s eighty one most polluted routes if air quality fails to improve
Any suggestion that drivers of diesels should be penalised will be greeted with anger from motoring organisations. They point out that the last Labour government had encouraged people to buy the vehicles.
It was thought that efficient diesel engines were the best way to cut greenhouse gas emissions. It later emerged that the nitrogen dioxide they emit was harming air quality.
Levels have been above legal boundaries in almost ninety per cent of urban areas in the UK since 2010.
The toxic fumes are estimated to cause 23,500 early deaths a year and the problem was proclaimed a public health emergency by a cross-party committee last year.
Fresh guidance to councils will see them urged to introduce a range of measures to bring down pollution.
These include making buses more environmentally-friendly, switching the phasing of traffic lights, removing speed bumps and switching road layouts. Town halls will be told to do all they can to avoid hitting diesel drivers, who bought the cars in good faith, with punitive measures.
But if these do not work, the Government will permit town halls to charge drivers of the filthiest vehicles using the most polluted roads.
They could also restrict the times of day when they can use these roads – banning them during peak hours, for example. Town halls will not be permitted to bring in city-wide limitations. They will only be able to take activity on the eighty one most polluted roads in the country.
Pressed on charges to inject city centres and other areas with high air pollution, Mr Gove cited London Mayor Sadiq Khan’s plan to introduce fresh charges before adding: ‘I don’t believe that it is necessary to bring in charging but we will work with local authorities in order to determine what the best treatment is.
‘If a local authority believes that charging is necessary in order to secure compliance then we’ll work to ensure that plan be implemented appropriately, but on the evidence I’ve seen while charging could bring local authorities in to compliance with the law, it’s not necessary.’
Mr Gove described charging as a ‘blunt instrument’, adding he would choose a ‘series of surgical interventions’ as they are ‘fairer’ to drivers and ‘likely to be more effective, more quickly’.
The clean air plan will be unveiled by Mr Gove’s Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and Mr Grayling’s Department for Transport. The Government said poor air quality was the largest environmental risk to public health
Evidence from the World Health Organisation shows that older people, children, people with pre-existing lung and heart conditions, and people on lower incomes may be most at risk, a spokesman said.
Mr Gove will tell councils to concentrate its activity to reduce emissions on some of the busiest roads and junctions. Analysis of more than 1,800 of Britain’s major roads by the government’s Joint Air Quality Unit shows that eighty one – four per cent – are affected, with thirty three roads outside London.
In many areas – including Nottingham, Bolton, Bristol, Cardiff and Middlesbrough – a single road is affected. Albeit ministers have not ruled out charging and restricting access to polluting cars at the busiest times, they want town halls to harass all other options very first. An extra £255million will be given to councils to help them bring in the plans, which will have to be drawn up by the end of 2018.
The future? More electrical cars could be seen on the roads after the ban
The Government will also invest money in a Clean Air Fund. Councils will be able to bid for money to support improvements that avoid the need for confinements on polluting vehicles. But ministers accepted that if this did not succeed in reducing emissions, councils may need to consider limitations on polluting vehicles using affected roads.
It could mean preventing polluting vehicles using some of the roads at certain times of the day – or introducing charging, as London mayor Sadiq Khan has announced.
A source said: ‘The Government is clear that local authorities should harass other options before opting to hit drivers with fresh charges for using vehicles they bought in good faith. ‘Any limitations or charging on polluting vehicles should be time-limited and lifted as soon as air pollution is within legal thresholds and the risk of future beaches has passed.’
A consultation will also be launched in the autumn on mitigation measures including a possible scrappage scheme to support drivers affected by any limitations on polluting vehicles.’
Last week a cross-party group of MPs wrote to Mr Gove demanded restricted access for polluting vehicles in urban areas.
Electrified mini built in UK: Fat boost for Brexit Britain as BMW defies Remoaners with car plant pledge on day of economic good news
BMW delivered a vote of confidence in post-Brexit Britain yesterday as it pledged to build the electrified Mini here.
Having previously warned it could budge production to the Netherlands, the German car giant exposed the next generation of the car will be assembled at its historic home in Cowley, Oxford.
The very first fully electrified Mini E will roll off the production line in 2019, just as Britain cuts ties with the EU.
Going for a spin: The BMW Mini factory in Oxford. The German car giant exposed the next generation of the car will be assembled at its historic home in Cowley, Oxford
The electrified drivetrain – the components that transfer power from the transmission to the wheels – will be built in Germany, before being shipped to the UK.
Bosses at BMW had told shareholders that the electrical Mini could be manufactured at its smaller plant in the Netherlands, as they ratcheted up pressure on ministers to thrash out a favourable deal for the car industry in Brexit negotiations.
There had also been mounting speculation that the hard would build a plant in Germany.
But yesterday BMW became the latest international carmaker to back Britain, with Nissan, Jaguar Land Rover and Toyota all exposing plans to ramp up production and invest in their UK car plants.
It also became the latest manufacturer to outline plans to boost production of electrified cars. BMW said it would be able to suggest a fully electrified version of any fresh model of BMW or Mini launched from 2020, if there was enough request.
The very first fully electrical Mini E will roll off the production line in 2019, just as Britain cuts ties with the EU
BMW said it would be able to suggest a fully electrical version of any fresh model of BMW or Mini launched from 2020, if there was enough request
Tory MPs last night described the rigid’s decision as a ‘clear endorsement’ of British car manufacturing, its workforce and its long term economic prospects.
It is also a boost to the Four,500 workers who churn out around 1,000 Minis a day at the 100-acre plant. BMW employs 24,000 staff in the UK, from the factory floor to its dealerships, including the Rolls-Royce factory in Sussex, and other plants in Birmingham and Swindon.
Business secretary Greg Clark, who is said to have met BMW board member Ian Robertson four times this year, said: ‘This landmark decision is a vote of confidence in the determination of our industrial strategy to make Britain the go-to place in the world for the next generation of vehicles.
‘BMW’s decision recognises the strength of the excellent workforce, our record of innovation and the productive relationship inbetween the automotive sector and the Government. The automotive industry is a good British success story and the Mini is a big part of that.’
BMW’s stir comes after a string of dire warnings from the car industry about the harm from Brexit.
Tory MPs last night described the rigid’s decision as a ‘clear endorsement’ of British car manufacturing, its workforce and its long term economic prospects
BMW said that it was committed to selling 100,000 electrified vehicles – hybrids or electrified cars – this year, as many as it has sold in total since production embarked four years ago
The motor trade figure the SMMT has described leaving the EU without a free trade deal as the largest ‘threat to the car industry for a generation’, amid fears that hefty tariffs will be imposed. Car makers have warned that the prospect of tariffs could shove up the cost of manufacturing, forcing them to increase their prices.
With eighty per cent of the 1.7million cars built in the UK exported – mainly to the EU – some are worried that plants in the UK will no longer be able to rival.
Last night pro-Brexit MPs and City experts said common sense had prevailed. Tormentor Bill Cash, Tory MP for Stone, said: ‘The doomsayers and the prophets of fear are being given a lesson in practical common sense. This is an enormously significant endorsement of the British workforce, and British car making.’
Charlie Elphicke, Conservative MP for Dover and Deal and a supporter of the Switch Britain campaign group, said: ‘The fact that this iconic car will be built in Britain is a enormous vote of confidence in the UK economy and fine news for British jobs.
‘This is yet further evidence that Britain remains an attractive place to invest, with companies looking to develop the technologies of tomorrow here in the UK today.’
David Buik, a veteran City commentator who works for stockbroker Panmure Gordon, said: ‘We’re the 2nd largest car assembly country in Europe for good reason. There is absolutely no need to stir production elsewhere as we have the innovation, abilities, driver and zest to take on all comers.’
BMW said that it was committed to selling 100,000 electrified vehicles – hybrids or electrical cars – this year, as many as it has sold in total since production commenced four years ago.