France Wants To Ban The Sale Of All Petrol And Diesel Cars By 2040
If you buy a new car in France in 23 year’s time, it’s highly likely you won’t have the option of anything with an internal combustion engine. Why? Because the French government announced on Thursday that it’s to ban the sale of all petrol and diesel cars by 2040.
The move is part of the country’s wide ranging plans to help meet targets set out by the Paris climate accord. In addition to the 2040 ban, owners of diesel cars made before 1997 and petrols build before 2001 will soon be offered financial incentives to scrap their cars.
The French government will provide financial support to private companies to help meet its aims, and has also announced its intention to stop using coal-fired power stations by 2022.
The declaration came a day after [Volvo said(https://www.carthrottle.com/post/every-all-new-volvo-will-be-hybrid-or-electric-from-2019/)] that by 2019 all of its new cars will be hybrid or electric, and follows similar calls from Norway and the Netherlands to have new petrol and diesel cars taken off sale by 2025. Last year there were also suggestions from senior German politicians for a 2030 ban in the country.
Our own UK government meanwhile pledged to ban petrol and diesel cars entirely by 2050 in the 2017 Conservative Party election manifesto, with exceptions expected to be made for classic cars.
Growing up on a diet of World Rally Championship highlights and lengthy Gran Turismo 2 sessions, a life in cars was as good as inevitable for Matt.
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And I want a Focus RS
However there is a big diffrence between wanting and getting something
Remember that the definition of “classic” will be very different in 2050. All our favourite Japanese cars will be classics in the same way that a 60s muscle car is a classic today. And today’s hypercars will be treated like Countachs.
WHAT?!
Don’t worry France, put a Disklok on your car so the government can’t take it away.
The French are an optimistic lot, aren’t they?
Why can’t they do something about aviation? It’s far more polluting and no one’s picky about what fuel it runs on. And electric turbines are a thing (Jaguar CX-75 concept)
Lol, the French and British are removing coal power stations and mines, where as here in good ole straya we are still creating new coal power stations and mines😂
Hard to realise tho, france will need to immiediatly start placing more charging points then so not all cars will just be stationary on the roads because they got such a small range. Not mentioning charging times
If they manage to pull this off, then GG. I personally do very much think that electric cars are the future, in 2040 we will have many great electric cars in all price categories and of course a ban of petrol and diesel cars in some countries will significantly accelerate development. I love the combustion engine. But it’s something that we have to leave behind.
I don’t understand how a whole government don’t know that during the production of the batteries for an electric vehicle, 150 to 200 kilograms of CO2 will be permitted to the atmosphere. If you drive an average gasoline powered car it takes over 8 years to emit that much CO2!
Further more you have to replace the batteries of an electric car every 100.000 km or so. Which means you can only cross the “8-year-border” if you drive less than 100.000 km in 8 years.
Electric cars just aren’t ready for big production numbers yet.
Once they are, I would buy one too…