Ethiopia already banned petrol cars earlier this year.
Holy shit. I wonder if this is just on paper, though, given the way countries in the region work and the questionable practicality of that before full electrification.
Ill believe it when I see it.
Glad to see the west coast and Canada banning ICE, but 2035 is late. We should be massively pushing ebikes in cities along with public transit. Get fewer car trips ASAP, even if we can’t get off ICE overnight.
Canada’s plan is for the exact same amount of people to be driving, but just with lithium instead of gasoline. No change to our urban planning, transit infrastructure, or car dependency. We’re screwed.
I wouldn’t say that’s entirely true. Vancouver, Vancouver island, and Montreal have some interesting bike infrastructure. Calgary has at least some infrastructure, too. Shifter is a canadian youtube channel that covers many of the canadian cities and discusses them in relation to other bike-centric cities around North America and Europe.
But yes, Canadian and American cities could use much more investment and a Parisian-style revision in road and plaza use, dedicating more places to bikes and foot traffic. Subsidizing ebikes will also help get people off cars.
Even if bans like this pass it will take several decades after those bans for ICE vehicles to actually disappear. The vast majority of cars sold here are used and buying one that’s 2 decades old is not uncommon. Until battery replacements become affordable the people who are buying used aren’t going to use EVs because those replacements cost more than a used ICE car.
Kinda surprised China doesn’t have a shade in this… They have been mass producing cheap little evs like no one else.
And then exported them…
I see Uruguay there… My country has no plans to phase out gasoline cars sales by 2025. We barely have the infrastructure for the current ones really. What we have is a plan to start giving benefits and tax cuts that starts on 2025 is called “subite” translates roughly to “get on”.
Edit it’s 2040 but still that plan is not voted at all.Australia…
