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Originally Posted by Osem
Nah. This is being driven first and foremost by Govt. environmental policy and having led us all up the garden path with regard to diesel, they're no doing the same thing with electric. If they could, the car companies would carry on churning out diesels equipped with cheat devices.
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Many companies already announced the move to electric years before the government introduced this 2040 goal. Volvo had even said they've got an end-date for their petrol engines before 2030. Nissan, Toyota, Ford, Peugeot and BMW amongst others are all at various points in this transition. It's why as I said at the start of the thread that the 2040 announcement is rather unambitious.
Not to say it's imminent. The vast majority of cars sold are still petrol and will be so for the next few years but it seems electric is only going to go in one direction as it makes up more and more of those sales. The question is when will we get to 50%....