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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Untill the world is running 100% on nuclear fission, this is a waste of tyme.
Producing electricity is just as harmfull, and usually even more harmfull than modern internal combustion engines.
FML…
i’m surprised how china isn’t the one to do this first
as a german i will tell you this will not happen! 100%. Our government has 0, ZERO , Z! E! R! O! balls at all.
Tschüss und Ende
Well its a good thing the only cars I want to own are 2008 and below
Wha…..Why…..
huh???
I need to start building my race car and drift car QUICK
That picture makes me cry :’(
Its very very clear that transportation is not the main problem
And I am pretty sure that they have included all kinds of transport, meaning that air and water transport contribute a lot to these 27%.
That is some heavy duty bullshit these governments are proposing and they know it, banning the sales of all new petrol and diesel cars will not help cut down the emissions at all! Instead they should focus on using more solar and wind energy(stop the thermal power plants using coal) and propose even stricter laws at factories that pollute the air, use better light sources etc etc. And I am pretty sure that those big coal excavators, other heavy duty vehicles and ships(and way more) polute more than thousands cars.
A good step but as long as our long distance transport solutions (trucks/ships/planes/trains/buses) are all using fossil fuels the carbon reductions will hit a plateau very quickly. Ships and planes being the major hurdles - road based vehicles could be all electric/hydrogen etc within 20 years but making ships/planes ‘green’ is a very long way off.
There are already ships with zero emission propulsion systems but you are right there are still a LOT of ships that aren’t and the planes and trains and stuff will also be a problem…