It wants to accelerate the current 2040 prohibition of gasoline and diesel cars to 2035, or earlier if feasible and add hybrids as well.
While it’s on track to meet its third carbon budget, it needs to find more CO2 savings to meet its fourth and fifth budgets. The sixth carbon budget, which will be set in December will be even stricter as it will be the first to take in the net-zero emissions goal set in 2019.
In another report Arthur D Little consultants looked at future demand for buses and concluded that the diesel versions will be killed off and electric models will not only replace them but must be introduced as the world increasingly expands urban areas and adds billions of people to the populations of them.