The German Government Wants To Ban The Sale Of All New Petrol And Diesel Cars By 2030
In as little as 15 years, the car landscape could look very different across Europe. We heard only a couple of weeks ago that Norway wants all new cars sold in the country by 2025 to be zero emissions, and now it’s emerged Germany’s government wants to do the same just five years later.
Autocar reports that German Deputy Economy Minister Rainer Baake has said this is the only way the country can hit its target of an 80 per cent reduction in C02 emissions by 2050. Speaking to a forum hosted by German publication Tagesspiegel, Baake explained: “The fact is, there’s been no reduction at all in CO2 emissions by transport since 1990.”
What’s interesting about this - apart from the fact the country is responsible for a lot of our favourite fast cars - is that unlike Norway, electric cars aren’t that popular in Germany. While 25 per cent of new cars sales in Norway are made up of EVs, Autocar reports that just 25,000 ‘zero emissions’ vehicles are registered in Germany right now.
It’s early days of course, and it’ll be a while before comments made by a minster will translate into an actual law, if they ever do. But with drastic, car-banning emissions reduction methods becoming more common, this certainly something to watch with interest.
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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That’s fine, as long as they keep exporting their cars to the rest of us :)
haha….the car companies have wayyy to much power to let that happen. And well I guess if this comes to discussion in parliament this will be thrown out of the window. We get better actually. Numbers of Climate Kyoto Protokoll are from 1990 BRD without DDR, Now Germany has one quarter bigger and still has same emissions. I guess we are rock solid on target course.
As long as they produce cars with manual gearbox, no problem 😆
Except most EVs typically only have a single gear
Well bye bye BMW, Mercedes, Audi, Opel, Porsche and Volkswagen
And hello to electric M, AMG, RS, OPC, GT and R ))
Any gouverment who doesn’t want to ban them?
Polish government, but they are sort of weird…
Seriously Y U DU DIS
1st of April?
No these emissions are a real problem these days
faints
As a german I have to say: this isn’t the right way to reduce co2 emissions
We are doing all right with reducing. We could do better, but this is no way to achieve that target. I could live with an EV as a daily, but I want a nice ride on my weekends with a linear Powerband freakin fast and makes me enjoy every second. An EV is boring (just drove an Leaf to be fair, Tesla might be different story).
In fact in transport emissions did not reduce because of EU Traffic over German Autobahn….Those Id!ots should look out for explanations which are actually pretty easy to find. Overall reduction of CO2 is way beyond Kyoto Protocol and that is something Germany has achieved very well!
The problem seems to be that our politicians are looking for what they perceive as an easy fix, rather than addressing some other sources of large CO2 emissions. The automotive industry has already made huge concessions toward this concept with reductions in displacement and/or forced induction.
Why not look toward creating aircraft with better emissions, or even devising ways to use the methane from agriculture (which in itself is large contributor).
It would be enough to ban TDi chip tuning ;D
My last name comes from there.
The goals for cut down in emissions are so ridiculously high, that they are impossible to reach, regardless which measures they take. The people need to start realising that the emissions problem can’t be overcome by just radically cutting down the usage of motor vehicles or other machinery that uses combustion engines. Those machines are an irreplacable part of our lives, which means we should DEVELOPE them further to meet our expectations, and not ban them. The austrian Government will soon do the same, because they accepted almost the same criteria that germany did. I’m not saying the environment isn’t worth saving, BUT, we should save it systematically, and not like this ..
THIS. I second it.
I’m sorry but you’re wrong. Being a car enthusiast and an Engineering Physics major I have come to realize there is ABSOLUTELY no way that we can keep using petrol engines. And it kills me to say that because mashing it in my n/a Audi is one of the greatest feelings and sounds in the world but the nature of how petrol is burned is so horribly inefficient. About ~1% of the TcpE (total chemical potential Energy) is actually transferred to the road on average in a road vehicle. You want to know how bad each car is for the environment for yourself because you don’t believe me? Go put your car in a garage and start it. Within ten minutes the whole space becomes uninhabitable. Moving to electric is the only way, and it must be done so soon. But the car future doesn’t have to be bleak. We can make electric cars just as fun as petrol cars and soon enough someone will hook up and giant ass dc motor to a six speed box and we will all be alright. Sorry my friend but petroleum days are numbered
Omg and Germany out of all countries. It’s literally called AutoLand, I can’t fathom how such a project would ever pass. All of it is just so wrong, the amount of emissions in Germany is mostly due to coal energy gaining, which is pretty much the filthiest way to produce electricity ; they should stop doing that instead of reaching back to pointless measures. And let’s not even mention the fact that the automobile industry is probably way too powerful to allow that.