Ban ICE Cars As Soon As EVs Become Cheaper, Say Experts
A formal advisory committee has told the UK government to bring its 2040 ban on the sale of new internal combustion-powered cars forward by 10 years.
The Committee on Climate Change, an independent body formed in 2008 to help guide government policy on emissions, wants the ban to coincide with the 2030 date at which it predicts that EVs will be cheaper to buy than equivalent petrol- and diesel-engined cars.
In a report presented to the government this week, the CCC says that to meet targets to make all cars zero-emission by 2050, new car sales must be electric-only by no later than 2035, but preferably 2030.
The new recommendations implicitly include all types of hybrid in the proposed 2030 ban, as opposed to the existing 2040 ban, which excludes all hybrids classed as ‘ultra-low-emissions vehicles,’ which basically means plug-in hybrids only.
However, the CCC report also notes the UK’s woefully inadequate public charging infrastructure. It estimates than a tenfold increase in the current 21,000 chargers will be needed by 2030 to support the switch to EVs, plus 3500 of the very fastest types of chargers for motorway-based charging stations.
The government doesn’t have to base policy on the report but is likely to take it seriously. Other suggestions covered emissions reductions in home-heating, the aviation and farming industries, and domestic waste disposal.
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Never said it banned the sale of used ICE cars
Pretty sure that these “experts” have no idea how science works and are only make claims based on the battery progress.
Any news of oil being discovered on Mars? I’d like to move there instead.
Will they buy one for me then?
Tbh I’d be ok with this if it reduced the amount of green house gases in the atmosphere. Apparently we got 11 years before there’s no turning back with climate change
I am a big free market fan, and if by 2030 electric vehicles are cheaper than ICE cars, then they will already sell significantly higher than ICE cars. Thus a ban isn’t really necessary. All that the ban will do is prevent the sales of drivers cars because those will be the ones that will still be better as ICE cars. That is a pretty small part of the market, so why bother. Just let the free market do its thing
EV’s won’t prevail, Hydrogen powered cars are the future
Looks like I’m buying something retro
They should invent portable chargers for evs
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These so-called experts are clearly out of touch with reality. If all new cars were EV’s, eventually the cheap used car will cease to be a thing, as they’d barely last 10 years. And then people who don’t have the disposable income to spend on a new car will be without transport.