http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-40518293
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.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 07 2017, @09:31PM (1 child)
If the USA went all electric cars over a short time frame, I think we'd need all the natural gas, coal, wind, solar and every other kind of electric production that we could get. This is a lot of power we are talking about, current USA usage is over 350 million gallons of petroleum...PER DAY.
https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/?page=us_energy_transportation#tab2 [eia.gov]
Anyone care to convert to the number of large electric generators needed to replace all that (given that electric cars tend to be more efficient, due to regen?)
(Score: 1) by Acabatag on Saturday July 08 2017, @04:31AM
If America went all electric cars in a short timeframe, we'd need to convert a large area of land mass into scrapyards to store the current fleet of vehicles in. It just could never happen, though it's interesting enough to speculate about.
There would be a groundswell of electric-conversion projects, though. There have always been people into tinkering around who would thrive in an economy where people needed a new engine for their old car.