Road to nowhere? Green groups call for EV rollout to be accelerated

Waiting for a recharge

When are people going to notice that making electric cars compulsory would/will limit them to travelling relatively short distances from home without a break, assuming they can afford one at all?

Green groups have urged the government to demonstrate its commitment to clean growth by accelerating the proposed ban on diesel and petrol engine cars and vans, reports Utility Week.

In a new report published today (25 August), the Green Alliance of environmental charities and groups has called on ministers to require all new cars and vans to be zero emission by 2030.

In its air quality plan, published last month, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs set a target that petrol and diesel should be banned by 2040.

Its report, Why the UK needs an ambitious clean growth plan now, estimates that bringing forward the ban to 2030 could reduce UK foreign oil imports by more than 50 per cent by 2035.

The report also says the government should not delay any longer the publication of the clean growth plan, which climate change minister Claire Perry has said will appear following Parliament’s return from summer recess in September.

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