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While some countries are busy buying cars and buses to run on their roads, some countries are setting the timeline to ban petrol and diesel cars from their highways in 11 years time.

The city council of Amsterdam has concluded plans to ban petrol and diesel cars and motorbikes from its streets from 2030, The Guardian reports.

The capital city of the Netherlands is looking to reduce air pollution, which local authorities claim shortens the life expectancy of local residents by as much as one year.

Starting in 2020, diesel cars 15 years or older will be banned from going within the A10 ring road around Amsterdam while from 2022, no public buses or coaches powered by petrol or diesel will be allowed in the city center. In 2025, the ban will be extended to includes pleasure crafts on its canals as well as mopeds and light mopeds. The Clean Air Action plan then calls for all traffic within the city to be emission-free by 2030.

In a bid to encourage locals to make the switch to electric and hydrogen vehicles, the city wants to offer charging stations to every buyer of an emission-free vehicle. Estimates predict the city will need between 16,000 and 23,000 charging stations by 2025 for the project to be viable.

The plan hasn’t pleased everyone and according to a spokesman from the Rai Association, an automotive industry lobby group, many people won’t be able to afford EVs.

“Many tens of thousands of families who have no money for an electric car will soon be left out in the cold. That makes Amsterdam a city of the rich. In 2030, about one-third of the cars will be electric, we expect. But there will also be a lot of people who won’t be able to afford that by then,” the spokesman said.

Source:
https://www.autoreportng.com/2019/05/amsterdam-to-ban-petrol-and-diesel-cars.html

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Naija... How far?

Good one very informative Article, Their Power plant would still get powered by our LNG from borny and Niger delta, Their Plane turbine jet engine would still get powered by our Jet1 fuel, All their Cargo ship would still need our deisel. and the outrageous cost of Battery cells wouldnt let our Crude oil customer dada Asian, and African 3rd world Countries .. leave us anytime soon.

Just as Solar renewable energy had been predicted decades ago to be the energy game changer of the world, reality is that Battery cell litthieum based or acid based is still out of reach of many

AutoReportNG:
Naija... How far?

Good share.

We've still got a long way if we are still faced with electricity power supply for household use.

iammo:



Good one, Their Power plant would still get powered by our LNG from borny and Niger delta, Their Plane turbine jet engine would still get powered by our Jet1 fuel, All their Cargo ship would still need our deisel. and the outrageous cost of Battery cells wouldnt let our Crude oil customer dada Asian, and African 3rd world Countries .. leave us anytime soon

Definitely. Petroleum products wouldn't be phased out entirely. Since there's no all-sufficient power source currently. Petroleum would still hold great significance in the energy mix.
Most machinery require fossil fuels to power them.

Sherlock5577:
Definitely. Petroleum products wouldn't be phased out entirely. Since there's no all-sufficient power source currently. Petroleum would still hold great significance in the energy mix.
Most machinery require fossil fuels to power them.

yeah especially heavy duty Vehichles for farming , Construction and Military. but Electric vehicles are futuristic no point ruling that out.. Just dont want people to hit the panic button as we really heavily on Crude oil sales allocation

iammo:
yeah especially heavy duty Vehichles for farming , Construction and Military. but Electric vehicles are futuristic no point ruling that out.. Just dont want people to hit the panic button as we really heavily on Crude oil sales allocation

You've just hit the nail on the head. Till current research in electricity powered technology can improve so much that their output equals or exceeds current technology powered by petroleum, fossil fuel will still find a significant place in the energy mix (especially Liquefied Natural Gas).
As you have said, definitely there's a gradual transition. The rate of this trend would differ around the world especially with the current divide in proactivity between the developed and developing countries.