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France is set to ban the sale of any car that uses petrol or diesel fuel by 2040, in what the ecology minister called a "revolution".
Nicolas Hulot announced the planned ban on fossil fuel vehicles as part of a renewed commitment to the Paris climate deal.
He said France planned to become carbon neutral by 2050.
Hybrid cars make up about 3.5% of the French market, with pure electric vehicles accounting for just 1.2%.
It is not yet clear what will happen to existing fossil fuel vehicles still in use in 2040.
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by Unixnut on Friday July 07 2017, @08:14PM
Its only France, ignoring the fact that the French pretty much make it a national sport to ignore as many laws as possible, France alone is not that big in comparison to the whole world. Even if France banned all petrol/diesel cars by 2040, there is still the rest of the world to sell such cars to.
I doubt manufacturers would halt all hybrid R&D because one country out of ~200 in the world decided to ban them.
if the entire EU banned them, then manufacturers would have to notice, but even that is a pretty stagnant market. The big car growth is in Russia and China right now, and they don't seem in a rush to move away from fossil fuels (as the Paris agreements actually allows them to pump out as much CO2 as they want, while they develop to western European standards). I think they is plenty of market left for petrol/diesel engined cars, hybrids or not, for a while.