What You Need to Know About the 2035 Petrol Ban
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Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ll know that one of the UK’s most testing environmental objectives is to ban the sale of new conventional petrol and diesel cars by 2030, while hybrids will be allowed to stay until 2035. After 2035, the only vehicles that will be allowed to be sold will be fully electric vehicles such as those made by Tesla and more affordable models such as the Nissan Leaf.
What do things look like at the moment?
As it stands at the moment, there are roughly 32 million cars on the UK roads. Of these, around 19 million are petrol vehicles, 12 million are diesel vehicles and half a million are hybrid vehicles. Just 120,000 or so vehicles make up the total number of pure electric vehicles on the roads today.
As you can see, if we are going to hit the 2030 target, we have a lot of work to do in the next 10 years!
What is being done to help the transition?
In order to help us meet the target, huge investments are being spread across different areas. £1.3 billion is going to be invested in the installation of electric vehicle charging points throughout the UK, including homes, streets and motorways. £582 million is going to be set aside for grants to ensure that people throughout the UK will be able to afford an electric vehicle. There will also be an investment of £500 million in battery development and £525 million will be set aside for nuclear power plants to help meet the growing demands of production.
How does this feed into the UK’s climate objectives?
The 2030 ban on petrol and diesel vehicles is just one part of Boris Johnson’s Ten Point Plan to build a greener future for the UK, which looks like this:
- Focus on offshore wind power for homes
- Invest in hydrogen as a clean alternative to other heating gases
- Push nuclear power as a clean energy source
- Ban the sale of new petrol and diesel vehicles by 2030
- Make cycling and walking an easier and more attractive mode of travel
- Support research for zero-emission planes and ships
- Make homes, schools and hospitals more energy efficient
- Develop technology that can capture and store harmful emissions away from our atmosphere
- Protect and restore the natural environment
- Make London the global capital of green finance
What does this mean for the automotive industry?
One of the main benefits that Boris Johnson has tried to communicate about his Ten Point Plan is the number of jobs that it will create. Across battery development, carbon capture and green energy, we can expect over 250,000 new jobs to be available once the “Green Industrial Revolution” has fully gotten underway.
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