UK to go after France in banning petrol and diesel cars by two thousand forty – going all electrical
– Jul. 25th two thousand seventeen 7:05 pm ET
After France announced earlier this month that it plans on banning fresh petrol and diesel cars by 2040, now the British government is about to announce similar measures this week.
The stir is in reaction to increasingly poorer air quality in the country and especially in urban regions – like London.
A government spokesman said via The Guardian:
“Poor air quality is the thickest environmental risk to public health in the UK and this government is determined to take strong activity in the shortest time possible. That is why we are providing councils with fresh funding to accelerate development of local plans, as part of an ambitious £3bn programme to clean up dirty air around our roads.”
Previous versions of the plan were believed to be too feeble to have any influence, but the government has now reportedly updated it to include the ban by 2040.
It’s later than others’ goals, like Norway aiming for 2025, but those are just goals while France and UK seem to be actually talking about a government enforced “ban” on fresh car sales that are not “zero emission vehicles” like electrical vehicles.
The UK recently embarked to think of more initiative to accelerate the deployment of electrical cars, like the possibility to make gas stations install electrical car chargers, which was introduced last month.
There’s already a £4,500 “plug-in grant” suggested as a direct incentive to buy electrified vehicles. It helped the country significantly increase its EV fleet, which now accounts for a record Four.2% share of fresh vehicles registered in the UK.
This fresh initiative that would ban petrol and diesel cars would also include the funding of the plug-in grant and other programs to facilitate the adoption of EVs in prep for the ban.
The total plan is expected to be released in total later this week.
As we previously reported, we think those timelines for the end of fresh gas-powered cars are too conservative. Once all-electric powertrains, due to the falling cost of batteries, reach cost parity with internal combustion engines before accounting for cost of operation (gas and maintenance savings), there will be virtually no reason for buyers to want gas-powered cars over battery-powered cars.
At the rate battery costs are falling, it will happen soon (inbetween two thousand twenty and 2025) and the industry should transition their production capacity over the following ten years.
UK to go after France in banning petrol and diesel cars by two thousand forty – going all electrical, Electrek
UK to go after France in banning petrol and diesel cars by two thousand forty – going all electrical
– Jul. 25th two thousand seventeen 7:05 pm ET
After France announced earlier this month that it plans on banning fresh petrol and diesel cars by 2040, now the British government is about to announce similar measures this week.
The budge is in reaction to increasingly poorer air quality in the country and especially in urban regions – like London.
A government spokesman said via The Guardian:
“Poor air quality is the largest environmental risk to public health in the UK and this government is determined to take strong act in the shortest time possible. That is why we are providing councils with fresh funding to accelerate development of local plans, as part of an ambitious £3bn programme to clean up dirty air around our roads.”
Previous versions of the plan were believed to be too feeble to have any influence, but the government has now reportedly updated it to include the ban by 2040.
It’s later than others’ goals, like Norway aiming for 2025, but those are just goals while France and UK seem to be actually talking about a government enforced “ban” on fresh car sales that are not “zero emission vehicles” like electrical vehicles.
The UK recently began to think of more initiative to accelerate the deployment of electrified cars, like the possibility to make gas stations install electrified car chargers, which was introduced last month.
There’s already a £4,500 “plug-in grant” suggested as a direct incentive to buy electrical vehicles. It helped the country significantly increase its EV fleet, which now accounts for a record Four.2% share of fresh vehicles registered in the UK.
This fresh initiative that would ban petrol and diesel cars would also include the funding of the plug-in grant and other programs to facilitate the adoption of EVs in prep for the ban.
The utter plan is expected to be released in total later this week.
As we previously reported, we think those timelines for the end of fresh gas-powered cars are too conservative. Once all-electric powertrains, due to the falling cost of batteries, reach cost parity with internal combustion engines before accounting for cost of operation (gas and maintenance savings), there will be virtually no reason for buyers to want gas-powered cars over battery-powered cars.
At the rate battery costs are falling, it will happen soon (inbetween two thousand twenty and 2025) and the industry should transition their production capacity over the following ten years.