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A consultation has been launched on the phasing-out of new petrol and diesel cars by 2030. The government says this will "restore clarity" for vehicle manufacturers and the charging industry.
By March, Volvo Cars announced that by 2030 it "intends to only sell fully electric cars and phase out any car in its global portfolio with an internal combustion engine, including hybrids". [170] In April 2021, Honda announced that it will stop selling gas-powered vehicles by 2040. [ 171 ]
The sale of new petrol and diesel cars will be ... showing that car production in the UK fell for the ... Boris Johnson to gradually phase out petrol and diesel-burning cars. That government said ...
Some top car makers as well as governments of some key markets like China, the US and Germany, are missing from the list of signatories. Six major car makers to phase out petrol and diesel cars by ...
Fossil-fuel phase-out is the largest part of limiting global warming as fossil fuels account for over 70% of greenhouse gas emissions. [49] In 2020, the International Energy Agency said that to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement, the phase-out of fossil fuels would need to "move four times faster". [50]
On 1 January 2012, the Nigerian government headed by president Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, tried to cease the subsidy on petrol and deregulate the oil prices by announcing the new price for petrol as US$0.88/litre from the old subsidised price of US$0.406/litre (LAGOS), which in areas distant from Lagos petrol was priced at US$1.25/litre.
This must include a phase-out date for the sale of new petrol and diesel cars and vans in the EU, to support the shift to zero-emission vehicles, the countries said.
The vehicle scrappage scheme (also vehicle discount scheme and car scrappage scheme) is a government incentive scheme that was introduced in the 2009 United Kingdom Budget to encourage British motorists to purchase a new, more environmentally-friendly car or van and scrap an older, more polluting one that they have owned for more than twelve ...