Internal Combustion: If You Can’t Beat ’Em… Ban ’Em!
https://spectator.org/internal-combustion-if-you-cant-beat-em-ban-em/September 14, 2017
...There are IC engine No Go Zones in Germany and France. The Brits have just decreed a ban on the sale of internal combustion-engined vehicles period, beginning in 2040.
This sounds like a long time from now but isn’t — because car companies begin designing cars about ten years before they see the light of production and so the fatwa means the car companies are on notice that the current generation of cars they are selling is either the last or the second-to-last generation of cars they will be selling… at least insofar as they are powered by internal combustion.
And so, they won’t be wasting resources to design and build the next generation.
It’s not just Britain, either.
If it were, the madness could be contained. Instead, the madness metastasizes.
India — well, the government of India — wants all IC engined cars off the road — or retrofitted with electric drivetrains — by 2030, which is only about ten years away and so just over the horizon as far as product planning cycles go.
And now the commissars in China have announced they are all in… or out — depending on your point of view. The world’s largest market for cars and the world’s largest manufacturer of cars.
Same 2030 extinction-by-decree date....