After many years of fighting off electric cars, it seems time has caught up with the oil and gas market and now considering that cars running on oil are reaching their end.
This has become more evident as countries are not only beginning to accept electric cars, and France has announced that it will ban the sale of petrol and diesel vehicles by 2040.
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The announcement was made by the country’s new government, through the Ecology Minister, Nicolas Hulot. In a press conference, the minister said: “We are announcing an end to the sale of petrol and diesel cars by 2040.”
The move which is significant towards checking climate change has brought the country to join countries that have begun moves to end the sale of petrol and diesel cars in the coming years. Among these countries are The Netherlands and Norway (2025), and Germany and India (2030).
Although the map towards achieving this has not been laid out, it is believed that the country will ensure that the cars are no longer sold by 2040. According to BBC News, poorer households may get the support of the government in changing their old cars for cleaner ones.
The new government of the country is pushing this through with the aim of getting the Paris climate agreement properly driven. And as revealed by IFLscience, this is ju8st one of the ways that the country is planning to make the country carbon neutral by 2050.
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Another important step being taken by the country is to end the use of coal in the production of electricity by 2022.
Interestingly enough, while countries are trying to get petrol cars out, car manufacturers are also beginning to fully embrace electric cars or at least in some form. An example of this is Volvo which has announced that all of its cars would partially be electric by 2019.
