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.
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Yah… Nein.
I don’t believe you. The Big Car manufacturers have bought many many politicians.
Well, if Italy follows suit we are all doomed!!!!
Hell naw to the naw naw naw
communist europe
I hope this never comes to the U.S any time soon.
don’t they understand that the world has a larger population since 1990? And there is no way that the government will allow the infrastructure and production of vehicles to wane in their country, that’ll kill jobs.
Then we can all stand outside the offices around burning oil barrels yelling “THEY TUK ER JERBS!”
The answer doesn’t lie in banning ICE cars. If they’re going to be drastic and extreme, why don’t they crack down on dirty energy sources and factories?
Car companies will find a way around this surely. Imagine a world where we purchase a BMW (or other German made car) in another country and then have it imported. They haven’t said we can’t have them there, it’s just we can’t purchase them there!
I think they’re getting ahead of themselves tbh, sure by then we could have electric cars that are just like our current cars with much longer range, super quick charge times, and ofc lower prices, not everyone can afford an electric car atm, but until then they shouldnt try and put a date on it, because what if it never happens.
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