Great Britain: Petrol car ban postponed
In a major shift on green policies, Great Britain postponed the ban on new petrol and diesel cars. The ban was supposed to come into force in 2035 and was a part of the measures to achieve net zero by 2050.
According to the announcement of the British Prime Minister Sunak, there will be a five-year delay in the ban on the sale of new petrol and diesel cars, which means that the requirement for all new cars to be “zero emission” will come into force in 2040 at the earliest.
The decision has angered carmakers who warned the move would undermine the industry’s efforts to switch to electric vehicles.
This back and forth strongly reminds the British approach to the UKCA product compliance marking. It was supposed to replace the EU CE marking starting in 2024. After 3 years of legislative chaos and uncertainty, the UK announced that the CE mark would be accepted infinitely after all.
Again, those meticulous manufacturers who started preparations early, are now ‘punished’ and they efforts seem to have been made in vain. The same applies to manufacturers of electric vehicles now.