No More New Gas-Powered Cars by 2050, Say Eight States and Five Countries
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No More New Gas-Powered Cars by 2050, Say Eight States and Five Countries
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I'm glad I'll most likely be dead by then.
Beyond irrelevance on a global scale, what do Rhode Island and the Netherlands have in common? Both have governments that want to ban sales of new gas- and diesel-powered cars within 35 years. And they’re not alone.
Rhode Island and seven other U.S. states that follow California’s zero-emissions vehicle (ZEV) mandate (California, Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, Oregon, and Vermont), along with a global ZEV alliance that includes Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Norway, and Quebec, say they’ll allow automakers to sell only those vehicles by 2050. Total global vehicle emissions will be cut 40 percent, sea levels and temperatures will drop, extreme weather will be tempered, and we’ll all live longer, healthier, safer lives because our brave politicians care about our planet.
Global sales of plug-ins reached a cumulative one million only this past September, with a projected 400,000 within the U.S. by the year’s end. That’s less than some political leaders had hoped: President Obama, four years ago, said we’d have one million by now. The actual U.S. market penetration for such cars is less than one percent.
The ZEV announcement was made against the backdrop of the United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP21) taking place in Paris. It’s not clear whether the ZEV alliance, which was established only last August, has the legal authority to impose such a mandate—particularly one with such a draconian impact on the automobile market.
Rhode Island and seven other U.S. states that follow California’s zero-emissions vehicle (ZEV) mandate (California, Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, Oregon, and Vermont), along with a global ZEV alliance that includes Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Norway, and Quebec, say they’ll allow automakers to sell only those vehicles by 2050. Total global vehicle emissions will be cut 40 percent, sea levels and temperatures will drop, extreme weather will be tempered, and we’ll all live longer, healthier, safer lives because our brave politicians care about our planet.
Global sales of plug-ins reached a cumulative one million only this past September, with a projected 400,000 within the U.S. by the year’s end. That’s less than some political leaders had hoped: President Obama, four years ago, said we’d have one million by now. The actual U.S. market penetration for such cars is less than one percent.
The ZEV announcement was made against the backdrop of the United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP21) taking place in Paris. It’s not clear whether the ZEV alliance, which was established only last August, has the legal authority to impose such a mandate—particularly one with such a draconian impact on the automobile market.
I'm glad I'll most likely be dead by then.
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All of the fastest cars will be electric probably far before that time anyways. The only thing holding this back is the current energy density of batteries, but that's improving and a few technologies in development could potentially eliminate this issue.
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If someone is able to resurrect (I believe it was saab that was developing it) the research to turn the body panels into a flat solid state battery, then we'll be closer than ever. That really was cool sh*t.
I will never get rid of my cars. They can outlaw all they want, but I will continue to drive my dino-burners until the day I die.
I will never get rid of my cars. They can outlaw all they want, but I will continue to drive my dino-burners until the day I die.
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i think with companies like tesla doing well, electric cars will be the norm by 2050. but to still driving gas guzzlers until the day i die.