UK plans to ban the sale of new thermal cars as early as 2030
- The UK plans to ban the sale of new thermal cars as early as 2030, five years ahead of the previously put forward date in March 2020. This ban will affect gasoline and diesel cars, followed by hybrids and plug-in hybrids five years later, in 2035.
- The British vehicle park is currently composed of 31.8 million cars, of which 18.8 million run on gasoline and 12.3 million on diesel. The remainder (685,000 units) is made up of 515,000 hybrids (HEVs), 80,000 plug-in hybrids (PHEVs) and 90 000 battery electric vehicles (BEVs).
- The UK car market over the ten months of 2020 is made up as follows: 1,384,601 cars including 100,160 HEVs, 44,046 PHEVs and 75,325 BEVs, representing a share of 16% of xEVs and 84% of thermal cars (1,165 070 units). British car production (780,000 cars in 10 months of 2020), produced only 125,000 HEVs and BEVs, representing 16% of all car production in the country. We can see that the proportion of cars with thermal engines is largely the majority in the country and that it will not be easy to replace all these cars with BEVs in ten or fifteen years, in terms of sales or production.
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