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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
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 11 2017, @06:39PM (2 children)
China bans don't seem to work the same as we are used to in "western" countries. I would guess the ban has little effect.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday September 12 2017, @03:12AM (1 child)
Suuure thing that!
The same like like... umm... their "second child" policy, it had little effect as well, right?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 12 2017, @11:43AM
I don't know much about it, but from this description I would say yea (its effects seem arbitrary and dubious):
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-child_policy [wikipedia.org]
Apparently it was designed to limit China's population to 700 million...