In the UK, there is significant investment in electrified vehicles to reduce air pollution in major cities. Even the British icon - the London Cab - nowadays has an electrified powertrain. Boris Johnson is willing to pay more than 3 billion euros for it. Money that should be used to install charging stations all over the country and to build giga factories for sustainable batteries.
The United Kingdom may leave the European Union, but Prime Minister Boris Johnson's climate plan is a lot stricter for car emissions than the European variant. An ambitious intention, experts say. Certainly compared to what Europe is currently imposing. Europe is demanding that 2030 percent of new cars be low-emission by 35. According to journalist Koen Baumers of the Nieuwsblad The sale of new diesel and gasoline vehicles is prohibited by 2030.
"That allows us to end sales of new petrol and diesel cars by 2030," Johnson writes in an opinion piece in the Financial Times. “The sale of hybrid cars that can travel a significant distance without producing CO2 comes out of the exhaust, we allow until 2035. ”
The car manufacturers themselves are not afraid of what is to come. According to the Belgian federation Febiac is the Automotive industry ready to make the switch to be fully electric by 2030. According to ZERauto.nl The United Kingdom currently has approximately 24.000 charging points at 9.000 locations. Not nearly enough to charge the growing number of PHEVs and EVs. The British government is therefore investing nearly 50 million euros in start-ups developing a new charging infrastructure.
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