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 :)
As long as they produce cars with manual gearbox, no problem 😆
Well bye bye BMW, Mercedes, Audi, Opel, Porsche and Volkswagen
Any gouverment who doesn’t want to ban them?
Seriously Y U DU DIS
1st of April?
faints
As a german I have to say: this isn’t the right way to reduce co2 emissions
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 ..
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.