China plans to ban petrol/diesel vehicles

The Chinese car-maker BYD is the world's largest producer of EVs.  This is the BYD Qin EV300.
Picture source: Green Car Reports 

Though no date has been set, China has announced that it is working towards a total ban on the sales and production of fossil-fuelled vehicles.  I've mentioned China's tight targets here and here.   China is doing this because of its horrendous air pollution.  But it's also doing it because it wants to dominate the developing electric car industry.  It produces and buys a third of the world's car output.  No car maker will be able to ignore this policy.  China is too big a market,  especially since India has now said it will ban petrol car sales by 2030.  It is all too likely that China will use its domestic push towards EVs to drive down unit costs and increase its car sales globally.  Car makers have been dragging their feet about EVs.  But the disaster of the diesel scandal, the extraordinary success of Tesla, and now more and more bans of fossil-fuelled car sales within 15 years around the world must be provoking some serious rethinking in auto boardrooms.

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