In line with EU
The United Kingdom is reportedly planning to push back a previously announced end to the sale of cars with combustion engines by five years.
Nowadays the question in almost every country – or in the case of the EU ‘region’ – is: when will the legal sale of new cars with an internal combustion engine on board stop? The United Kingdom is one of the most ambitious players in that category. Here, all new cars must be fully electric from 2030, and that won’t take long.
However, that 2030 agreement does not seem to have been set in stone. According to the BBC, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is considering extending the sales ban on diesel and petrol cars to 2035. This would mean that the measure on ‘the island’ would come into effect at the same time as that in the European Union, because 2035 is also the magical year here. . Sunak is expected to announce this change in a speech sometime in the coming days, so we’ll wait patiently for confirmation.
Shifting the deadline for cars does not mean that the British climate plans as a whole become less ambitious: the country wants to be climate neutral by 2050. However, the road to this end should take a more realistic and pragmatic approach, of which shifting the ‘petrol ban’ is a part.
– Thanks for information from Autoweek.nl