UK to ban sale of petrol and diesel cars from 2040
The UK is set to ban the sale of all diesel and petrol vehicles from 2040, following in the footsteps of France.
The ban forms part of the UK Plan for Tackling Roadside Nitrogen Dioxide Concentrations, the government's £3 billion vision for improving the nation's air quality.
The document, published today, says the aim is to ban the sale of all electric and petrol vehicles from 2040, in an effort to make "almost every car and van on the roads" zero-emission by 2050.
France made a similar pledge earlier this month, and has also set a deadline of 2040.
The UK's plan includes an investment of £600 million in the development, manufacture and use of zero-emissions vehicles by 2020, including £100 million towards building and retrofitting low-emission buses. "The shift to ultra-low and zero-emission vehicles is well under way, and will continue to gather pace over the coming years as we move towards 2040, by which point the government will end the sale of all new conventional petrol and diesel cars," reads the document.
"This shift will resolve our air-quality problem as combustion engines gradually disappear from the streets of our towns and cities, some as soon as the early 2020s."
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An earlier version of the document was released in May, but judges ordered it to be revised because it failed to meet EU pollution li...
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