Although the ban will not come into force for another 15 years, the change will affect decision-making sooner as carmakers decide on investments long before a vehicle first rolls off a production line with a model life cycle lasting around seven years.
FILE PHOTO: Electric cars are charged at Source power points in London, Britain, October 19, 2018. REUTERS/Simon Dawson Johnson’s launch of COP26 was marred by a stinging attack on the prime minister by the summit’s former head Clare O’Neill who was sacked from the post last week.
What next? Clockwork cars?
Yeah but he lies. The bigger the better. VileRegime
Ffs the national grid does not have the infrastructure to cope with charging these cars Aswell as the lithium demand,really wish ppl would research shit,rather than writing a letter to Father Xmas getreal there is a reason the combustion engine has survived 150 yrs dontsayoil
It was actually petrol cars, not gasoline. No such thing in the U.K.
18 yrs after Gordon Brown promoted diesel cars to protect the environment. Twats.
Nice idea and about time. However just killed any hybrid car production outright and left car makers who had tooled up for them in a pickle
No reason why this shouldn't be 2025
How does the Conservative party over there believe in science but ours doesn’t?
Joke
Price of rare earths just jumped. Congrats China.
We are proud of you Britain!
All you will get from that is loads and loads of rebuilt cars. You cannot ban vehicle parts as it would put a lot of jobs at risk. As an EV and desiel car owner I would say better offering a carrot than a beating with a stick.
SamCarvalho We need a dramatic reduction of VAT on electric cars, no more excuses that the EU will not allow us.
dmbayly That's why I've gone and stocked up on cars. Can't have too many of them, as we say around here. Winning
Air quality deaths are a bigger issue than knife crime in London
Cars can run on methane or LPG..
Would love it but it won’t happen. european car manufacturers, including Britain, Germany, exotics ferrari/lamborghini/Bugatti can’t go full out electric. american car market is huge, they’re car crazy especially european premium-they’ll dictate fuel. Plus new government in 2035.
Not to worry 21million will have died by 2035 based on standard 3500/100000 of population so need to worry
One has to wonder what that will do to the order books of the super car manufacturers Who’s going to bother placing an order for a new astonmartin if by the time they get round to receiving it, they won’t be able to drive it or it’s resale value is ZERO. Expensive lawn ornament?
wont happen until the price of battery cars fall to sub £20K or we get the US $ car prices in the UK !!, any Goverment that drives the working class off the roads wouldn't be in office long.
And ....
The best way to adapt to ecological causes is to make them economically viable. Scientists do a lot more for the environment than environmentalists.
Morning
This Boris Johnson knows that he will die long before 2035.
Meanwhile trump dilutes the epa to allow corporates to undertake more pollution. The whole of Europe trying to save the world from pending disaster while Trump and the GOP couldn’t care less
Ofc they will Inb4 4 year election cycles
No we won't, thee is no infrastructure to supply the power for anything else and will not be within that time span...
Can't happen soon enough. Let's go, the rest of the world!
They banned dental plans a long time ago, what’s it matter?
Or BorisJohnson ...get big oil to roll out hydrogen! People are always saying they have the money...so let them pay for a zeroemission future...then the government doesn't have to! None of the battery problems either!
Funny, who can afford such vehicles ?
They'll be broke before that happens. Bans are made to be broken.
looks like it's shanks pony in the future
Yeah love to see whats going to happen in traffic jams snow storms etc... I suppose drones will fly around with chargers and heaters...
So the whole of Europe will have complete coverage for electric car charging ... excellent
It's an illusion for political purposes. You need fossil fuels to power 'electric' cars. The batteries are a very bad environmental hazard that, up to now, has been ignored. The gasoline engine is easily the most efficient power source for transportation.
15 years is a long time away.
..or in other words. 'The UK will mine billions of tons of earth in another continent, outsourcing the pollution to the 3rd world.'
Sure, for diesels exhaust fumes is carcinogenic but makes you wonder, car manufactures perhaps know the same about petrol fumes.. so methane cars will be ok?
Quoting yota_berlin 'The biggest flaw in climate policy is the assumption that CO2 emissions have an impact on the climate.'
Poor people don't really need cars anyway right ...
The air in the UK will be like Nordic Nirvana, whilst China, India and the USA continue to crank up their huge fossil resources. Totally ridiculous until all Countries are on the same Agenda🙉🙈🙊
Wishful thinking. Watch when the time comes the extensions start rolling out lol
Gotta love Aston Martin said didn't wanna make ev till financially stable 😂🤣 in about 10 years.. Good luck with that now 🤣😂👍
Glad I already got one that goes like shit off a shovel then!
Boris is a fool
Wtf BorisJohnson
Good initiatives by then he is already out of office , who's going to apply the ban ?
net11e Wow he won't be PM to long then
Good! The wheel of justice needs to move quicker.
Definitely a step in the right direction.
It won't happen. 15 years is too soon.
That's......awesome.
This is what a advanced responsible country means -setting good example rather than purely on economic gain.
An awfully long time in technology years.
Still too late.
🖕
People will forget this statement by Thursday. So will the government
Riiiiight
Huh. We should do that, too.
How will this work? Will there be a scrapage scheme for people with no choice but to purchase these cars now/next 5 years because electric still unattainable and not currently practicable. What is their plan to increase charging points?
A half decent eruption from an Icelandic volcano produces more CO2 than a lifetime of driving in the UK but go ahead, if it makes you feel better. 🤪
And that’s the conservative government that proposed this? Wow, taken decades to get a fraction of America Conservatives to even believe in climate change, lol.
And in China or India? 😂😂😂
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