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China Planning Gas and Diesel Car Ban

posted by Fnord666 on Monday September 11 2017, @01:18PM   Printer-friendly
from the too-little-too-late? dept.

takyon writes:

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-41218243

China, the world's biggest car market, plans to ban the production and sale of diesel and petrol cars and vans.

The country's vice minister of industry said it had started "relevant research" but that it had not yet decided when the ban would come into force. "Those measures will certainly bring profound changes for our car industry's development," Xin Guobin told Xinhua, China's official news agency China made 28 million cars last year, almost a third of the global total.

Both the UK and France have already announced plans to ban new diesel and petrol vehicles by 2040, as part of efforts to reduce pollution and carbon emissions.

Chinese-owned carmaker Volvo said in July that all its new car models would have an electric motor from 2019.

Previously: France to Ban Petrol and Diesel Vehicles by 2040
France Plans to End Oil and Gas Production by 2040

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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 11 2017, @04:39PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 11 2017, @04:39PM (#566268)

    Apart from cities, trains, solar panels, islands and aircraft carriers, tell me ONE THING that China is doing to build infrastructure!?

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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 11 2017, @04:48PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 11 2017, @04:48PM (#566272)

    They are building a Great Firewall 2.0.

  • (Score: 3, Informative) by bob_super on Monday September 11 2017, @05:14PM

    by bob_super (1357) on Monday September 11 2017, @05:14PM (#566278)

    Dams, nukes and wind turbines, to power all of the above, and the new electric cars, cleanly.
    That's THREE! Got you!

  • (Score: 2) by PiMuNu on Tuesday September 12 2017, @11:05AM

    by PiMuNu (3823) on Tuesday September 12 2017, @11:05AM (#566673)

    Don't forget the electron-positron collider (bigger and better than LEP, CERN's effort)