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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Better plan: ban all VW diesels. Will work 9001% sure
Lmafo im dying
Dead meme. Not funny. Kys.
We should register CT as an organisation representing minorities’ views and accuse governments on discriminating petrolheads by publishing such laws.
Instead, they should ban all non-carguys from buying petrol and diesel cars today. Those who want to get a licence to buy combustion-engined cars will have to pass a ‘car knowledge and passion’ test. Those who passed can buy and drive any cars (even with 7-litre naturally-aspirated V8s or whatever) without any restrictions.
I doubt they’ll ban only select people from buying petrol and diesel cars, but we need to take action.
That would be discrimination, tbh.
Well, I wish them luck beefing up their electrical power system through the countries so they can actually handle the crazy amount of electricity that will be needed…
The end is near!
It seems to me I was born just at the “last minute” of the period when petrolheads are allowed to enjoy their passion, publicly and with widely available cars. I’m so happy we have the freedom to buy +- anything we want and drive it wherever we want but I am afraid our freedom will be taken away from us and our children.
In my opinion, governments have no right to influence our lifestyle so much and I still hope people will not let them to do that.
BTW german government is kind of insane when it comes to electric cars. Do you remember when A. Merkel said there will be million of them in 2020? In fact, Germany is not even close (not even a little bit) to achieving that.
they must have developed a car which runs on sausages and beer
The end is coming.
And all that electricity is coming from a “green” power plant
F*ck
Bye Germany….
This is like the EPA thing it would change everything if it was passed but it’s not gonna it’s just absurd