Come 2030, the sale of petrol and diesel vehicles will be banned in the UK, a good 10 years ahead of schedule. This announcement was made by Prime Minister Boris Johnson as part of a 10-point plan for a \u201cgreen industrial revolution”. To aid the transition, the UK government will spend about \u00a32.4 billion on providing charge-points along roads and at homes, push people to shift to electric vehicles (EVs), and set up battery-making units.<\/p>\n
That a developed country is planning to switch almost entirely away from fossil fuels for transport in a decade speaks of the rising confidence in EVs as a green option. Even if a little overambitious, and perhaps timed suspiciously with a change in US leadership, the UK\u2019s plan signals how quickly motoring might go electric, globally. India ought to take note. Our challenges are much more daunting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Come 2030, the sale of petrol and diesel vehicles will be banned in the UK, a good 10 years ahead of schedule. This announcement was made by Prime Minister Boris Johnson as part of a 10-point plan for a \u201cgreen industrial revolution”. To aid the transition, the UK government will spend about \u00a32.4 billion on providing charge-points along roads and at homes, push people to shift to electric vehicles (EVs), and set up battery-making units. That a developed country is planning to switch almost entirely away from fossil fuels for transport in a decade speaks of the rising confidence in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,130,187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-384926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}