UK to ban the sale of new petrol & diesel cars by 2030

AMG Power · 8th April 2025, 07:37

Prime Minister Keir Starmer yesterday confirmed that from 2030, new sales of petrol and diesel cars will be banned, delivering on Labour's pre-election pledge to reinstate the original deadline at the end of the decade.

However, under the new rules, manufacturers will be able to sell full hybrid and plug-in hybrid vehicles until 2035, at which point only new zero emission vehicles will be sold.

The new rules follow a consultation which ended in February which looked into whether the Government should reinstate the 2030 deadline, as well as asking manufacturers and key players whether "regulatory flexibilities" should be introduced

The Government is backing the British automotive sector by announcing new changes to the Zero Emission Vehicle mandate.

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PetrolHead2272 · 8th April 2025, 10:55

Is this why Jaguar went all-electric

lemedico · 10th April 2025, 09:17

All this forced electrification makes me sad. We are expected to drive "devices" rather than machines.
Will this page be known as TeamKWh in the future?

Sensible_Speed · 10th April 2025, 09:54

I think manufacturers are approaching EVs wrong. They've forcefully made them into devices instead of driving machines, just because they can. I read a very interesting customer perspective on Autocar UK magazine, where they basically said, "Automakers may be better off, building the cars from a driveability perspective instead of a platform as a tech demonstrator."

Manufacturers often rabbit-hole themselves into certain design habits while trying to preempt external hypotheticals that may not ever occur. Such as the race to semiconductor integration and forced application of software to maintain relevance on the supplier end. They're not only marketing cars to consumers, but to suppliers too at a platform level. Business models need to change to become more consumer facing again.

Added to the top of this is the government's policy of forced compliance that pushes them further to explore these non-consumer facing enclaves in search of profits and long-term benefits, ruining the experience for the entire industry and all stakeholders involved. The future looks bleak in the short term, but things may pick up if consumers reject the current approach. Look at Volvo's massive fall in recent times. They built an appliance with the capabilities of a supercomputer, but customers found it insufferable to live with. This led to the firing of the CEO who ushered in this big tech push.

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Sensible_Speed BHPian Join Date: Jun 2023 Location: Bengaluru Posts: 287 Thanked: 761 Times	Re: UK to ban the sale of new petrol & diesel cars by 2030 I think manufacturers are approaching EVs wrong. They've forcefully made them into devices instead of driving machines, just because they can. I read a very interesting customer perspective on Autocar UK magazine, where they basically said, "Automakers may be better off, building the cars from a driveability perspective instead of a platform as a tech demonstrator." Manufacturers often rabbit-hole themselves into certain design habits while trying to preempt external hypotheticals that may not ever occur. Such as the race to semiconductor integration and forced application of software to maintain relevance on the supplier end. They're not only marketing cars to consumers, but to suppliers too at a platform level. Business models need to change to become more consumer facing again. Added to the top of this is the government's policy of forced compliance that pushes them further to explore these non-consumer facing enclaves in search of profits and long-term benefits, ruining the experience for the entire industry and all stakeholders involved. The future looks bleak in the short term, but things may pick up if consumers reject the current approach. Look at Volvo's massive fall in recent times. They built an appliance with the capabilities of a supercomputer, but customers found it insufferable to live with. This led to the firing of the CEO who ushered in this big tech push.
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