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UK to ban most hybrid cars, including Prius, from 2040
Hybrid cars that rely on traditional engines, such as the Toyota Prius, would be banned by 2040 under plans being drawn up by the UK government that would outlaw up to 98 per cent of the vehicles currently on the road.
Vehicles such as the Prius — the best-selling hybrid car in Britain — will no longer be classified as “environmentally friendly” enough to be sold, according to three people briefed on the government’s plans to tackle emissions and air quality.
The exact wording is still under consultation between several government departments, with the transport, environment and business departments all feeding into the final document.
The plans are backed by Michael Gove, environment secretary, and Greg Clark, business secretary. But Chris Grayling, transport secretary, who has Toyota’s UK headquarters in his constituency, has resisted the plans.
A spokesman for the Department for Transport said: “It is categorically untrue that government is planning to ban the sale of hybrid cars in the UK by 2040.”
Last July, the government outlined plans to ban the sale of “conventional” cars from 2040.
The vague wording caused considerable confusion among carmakers, because it was unclear whether cars that use both batteries and traditional engines would be permitted.
The new document aims to clarify the government’s position, and outline how it intends to grow public demand for electric vehicles in the interim years.
Three people involved in the decision said only vehicles that can travel at least 50 miles using only electric power will be permitted under the new rules.
The change in rules will outlaw more than 98 per cent of the vehicles currently sold in Britain and will require manufacturers to switch to vehicles predominantly driven by batteries, though they may have petrol engines for back-up or support.
Plug-in cars that have both large batteries and a traditional engine will also be permitted, although the exact wording is yet to be clarified, according to four people briefed on the government’s plans.
There are several types of hybrid vehicles, from Toyota Prius cars, which use electric power and petrol simultaneously, to plug-in vehicles that can travel for significant distances on battery power alone.
New car sales in Britain have fallen 8.8 per cent so far this year, a decline that has led to hundreds of job cuts at Jaguar Land Rover and Nissan, as well as lost work for hundreds of dealerships.
The industry lays the blame for the decline in part on public confusion over the government’s policy around future vehicle bans.
Mike Hawes, chief executive of industry body the SMMT, said: “We cannot support ambition levels which do not appreciate how industry, the consumer or the market operate and which are based neither on fact nor substance.
“Unrealistic targets and misleading messaging on bans will only undermine our efforts to realise this future, confusing consumers and wreaking havoc on the new car market and the thousands of jobs it supports.”
He added: “Vehicle manufacturers will increasingly offer electrified versions of their vehicles giving consumers ever more choice but industry cannot dictate the pace of change nor levels of consumer demand.
“If government wants the UK to be a global leader in zero emission transport it must provide a world class package of incentives and support to make this a credible policy.”
154 Comments on "UK to ban most hybrid cars, including Prius, from 2040"
joe on Sat, 5th May 2018 2:00 pm
In the UK we suffered very badly from oil shortages in the 1950s, the Abdan crisis which led to the UK joining forces to depose the democratically elected leader of Iran is a prelude to the power struggle that will come between those who have oil reserves and those who do not when oil becomes more scarce. The troubles of North Korea and Iranian nuclear deal will be peanuts compared to the savage games that will be playing out.
Boat on Sat, 5th May 2018 2:08 pm
Mm
Nascar is high tech. The top teams have their own wind tunnel to squeeze out speed. So many things for for you to learn. Even the pit crews have trainers and nutrition experts to cut split seconds off tire changes.
MASTERMIND on Sat, 5th May 2018 2:18 pm
Children are being arrested today at the Anti Putin rally in Russia
https://i.imgur.com/2eL4OaL.jpg
Vlad the bad shows no mercy!
MASTERMIND on Sat, 5th May 2018 2:20 pm
ALL we need to do is make it official across the world.
Goto the UN and say: “Russia is a Dictatorship. We need to add it to the list of Dictatorships in the world. All in favor,” a huge “AYE.” throughout the crowd. “All opposed” squeaky voice of Syria, “me!”
Boat on Sat, 5th May 2018 2:20 pm
The point is mm your chart does not reflect changes in proved reserves. That chart keeps going up. Those numbers reflect price and all the oil.
We have not even talked about estiments of undiscovered oil. I was being kind so a concept like that wouldn’t blow your brain. Lol
Cloggie on Sat, 5th May 2018 2:23 pm
Navalny defied orders from authorities and demonstrated in the center of Moscow and got temporarily arrested.boohoo.
Putin was elected with 77% and nobody in the West doubted the outcome.
Navalny is a bad loser, just like Clinton.
Cloggie on Sat, 5th May 2018 2:29 pm
“Goto the UN and say: “Russia is a Dictatorship. We need to add it to the list of Dictatorships in the world. All in favor,” a huge “AYE.” throughout the crowd. “All opposed” squeaky voice of Syria, “me!””
There is no doubt that Putin was democratically elected.
America in contrast is a fake democracy as even Princeton admits in a no doubt peer-reviewed study:
http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-echochambers-27074746
The world needs to liberate poor oppressed European Americans from evil (((oligarchs))) who need to be carted off to Nuremberg.
MASTERMIND on Sat, 5th May 2018 2:33 pm
A school’s mural depicts Trump’s severed head on a spear
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/education/wp/2018/05/05/a-schools-mural-depicts-trumps-severed-head-on-a-spear/?utm_term=.164fd7a57de7
MASTERMIND on Sat, 5th May 2018 2:36 pm
BP 1.7 Trillion barrels proven oil reserves NOT so proven
http://crudeoilpeak.info/oil-reserves-and-resources-as-function-of-oil-price
Cloggie on Sat, 5th May 2018 2:43 pm
Millimind alternates between posting peak oil baloney and anti-Trump and anti-Putin agitation, the real reason why he is here. The goal of his tribe to instigate a social revolution in America to finally subjugate white America.
fmr-paultard on Sat, 5th May 2018 2:56 pm
i’m take temorary retirement. the world falling apart
superatrd believe in “electrrrrric universe”
the other into permacutism
brillan flashes at night can’t sleep next 2 years
dictator putin admired by closets homosexuals
these things weighs too much in my brain riht now
MASTERMIND on Sat, 5th May 2018 3:01 pm
clogg
that Russian elected was faked. Ballot stuffing like always. Even Snowden said it was fake..And Snowden can tell no lie…And fuck off Putin doesn’t give a shit about your stupid neckbeard populist movement. You think your neckbeard movement can really defeat the worlds most powerful people? I think not…
MASTERMIND on Sat, 5th May 2018 3:02 pm
Clogg
Your populist movement only has elections to brag about. the European youth is dropping religions like flies and turning to the radical left. Your movement is mostly old and crusty boomers. Anarchy is coming! Well see how tough you are!
MASTERMIND on Sat, 5th May 2018 3:07 pm
Look at these dumb white people ! LOL There days are numbered! So dumb and obese!
https://i.redd.it/7lo8hpuatzv01.jpg
Natural selection will soon take care of them. Good they can’t dance or jump either..totally flat footed.
MASTERMIND on Sat, 5th May 2018 3:18 pm
Anti-Putin leader Alexei Navalny one of 1,600 arrested
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2018/05/05/Anti-Putin-leader-Alexei-Navalny-one-of-1600-arrested/7921525547297/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
No free speech! Vlad the bad is turning into another Hitler! He must be stopped for this thing gets out of control again.
Cloggie on Sat, 5th May 2018 3:25 pm
“Look at these dumb white people ! LOL There days are numbered! So dumb and obese!”
Most telling is the total lack of response from white Americans on this forum against the open announcement of their own demise at the hands of millikike’s tribe.
MASTERMIND on Sat, 5th May 2018 3:55 pm
Clogg
Kick rocks you dumb neckbeard! I told you ole tubby whitey’s days are numbered! They don’t stand up because they know its true..The future is a mixed world.
Cloggie on Sat, 5th May 2018 4:15 pm
“The future is a mixed world.”
Owned by your tribe.
Eurasia is not interested.
Why don’t you finish off white America first and next conquer the world with your darkies.ROFL
Seriously, you assholes lost the USSR by 1953. Likewise you are going to lose America. You already lost the presidency. The whole world has enough of America and Europeans are notoriously good at dealing with your tribe.
Your century is over.
https://www.amazon.com/Jewish-Century-Yuri-Slezkine/dp/0691127603/ref=sr_1_1
CW2 is next.
MASTERMIND on Sat, 5th May 2018 4:19 pm
Clog
This isn’t the 18th century….You live in a fantasy land…Once the oil starts to run out (and it will run out soon)..Its going to be uprising on the elites. Americans will unite
MASTERMIND on Sat, 5th May 2018 4:21 pm
Karl Marx hometown unveils huge statue on the Communist Manifesto author’s 200th birth anniversary
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/karl-marx-hometown-unveils-huge-statue-200th-birth-anniversary-article-1.3972875?utm_content=buffer95122&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=NYDailyNewsTw
Cloggie on Sat, 5th May 2018 4:30 pm
“Americans will unite”
They won’t, they will go at each others throat.
The real mood in the country:
https://youtu.be/fdAKkd8ryG0
Mixed world?
Works great in that Israel of yours, eh?
LOL
The beginning of CW2 will coincide with the end of DJT.
And the entire world will intervene in order to finally get rid of the Great Satan.
Cloggie on Sat, 5th May 2018 4:32 pm
“Karl Marx hometown unveils huge statue on the Communist Manifesto author’s 200th birth anniversary”
Was an embarrassing gift from China.lol
Difficult to refuse.
Will someday quietly disappear, like general Lee.
MASTERMIND on Sat, 5th May 2018 4:32 pm
In China, President Xi Jinping hailed Karl Marx as “the greatest thinker of modern times.”
JuanP on Sat, 5th May 2018 4:35 pm
Russia is the BIGGEST country in the world!
Cloggie on Sat, 5th May 2018 4:39 pm
“In China, President Xi Jinping hailed Karl Marx as “the greatest thinker of modern times.”
Quite a statement from the largest capitalist country in the world.lol
Cloggie on Sat, 5th May 2018 4:58 pm
About the cancer called Marxism:
https://twitter.com/DanielJHannan/status/992706429164359680
MASTERMIND on Sat, 5th May 2018 5:18 pm
CLogg
It wasn’t Marxism that kill those people it was totalitarian governments. And look at the person you shared. what a fascist looking weasel. The only people who came close to pure communism was the Indians. You are just uneducated and easily duped by right wing propaganda.
MASTERMIND on Sat, 5th May 2018 5:32 pm
Clogg
That reporters twitter he was so triggered by Marx celebrations…LOL He doesn’t even know what Marxism even is. He just thinks it means sharing and that can’t be allowed for the status quo. You are a globalist clogg. You love global capitalism. You are a fake
Cloggie on Sat, 5th May 2018 5:38 pm
“It wasn’t Marxism that kill those people it was totalitarian governments.”
…who embraced that ideology.
And why the whining about “totalitarian governments”? Hadn’t they great Karl Kike himself dreamed about “dictatorship of the proles”? Well then, what you called is what you got.
But I read you very well… “this time we are going to do communism properly”, right?
Please go ahead, try it out in Greater Baltimore and leave the rest alone. Perhaps we’ll drop by, as tourists and have a good laugh.
MASTERMIND on Sat, 5th May 2018 5:48 pm
How could one man start a revolution? with one simple act of protest.
Tarek al-Tayeb Mohamed Bouazizi was a Tunisian street vendor who set himself on fire on 17 December 2010, in protest of the confiscation of his wares and the harassment and humiliation that he reported was inflicted on him by a municipal official and her aides. His act became a catalyst for the Tunisian Revolution and the wider Arab Spring, inciting demonstrations and riots throughout Tunisia in protest of social and political issues in the country. Source: Wikipedia – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohamed_Bouazizi
The answer is that the region was already at a tipping point. It just needed a spark or trigger.
MASTERMIND on Sat, 5th May 2018 5:57 pm
Clogg
You globalist cuck! Fuck globalism! And fuck you
MASTERMIND on Sat, 5th May 2018 5:59 pm
Clogg
8 people own half the worlds wealth? WTF is wrong with you? This is exactly what Marx predicted would happen. He nailed! Well guess what globalism is going to collapse when the oil crisis hits! Its game over! And then we seize the fucking means!
MASTERMIND on Sat, 5th May 2018 6:03 pm
CLogg
Like I said the youth isn’t on your populist side! You will get your ass blasted by antifa…The pigs can’t protect you fascist forever! You can keep your stupid election victories that change nothing and the crusty old boomers.
onlooker on Sat, 5th May 2018 6:08 pm
MM, Clog is an anti Globalist but it seems very much on the Capitalist bandwagon
Absolutely, Capitalists cannot see beyond profit making. That is why nothing was done to avert the coming Collapse. And why those 8 people have so much money and the rest of the world is left with a scam social media/renewables/debt Economy
MASTERMIND on Sat, 5th May 2018 6:09 pm
Children are being arrested at the Anti Putin rally today in Russia….
https://i.imgur.com/2eL4OaL.jpg
Vlad The Impaler locking up children for free speech….He is ruthless..And must be stopped! And he will be…soon…And then his oil and gas reserves are ours! Give him the Gadifi treatment!
makati1 on Sat, 5th May 2018 6:16 pm
MM, “seize the means”? Do you think that much will change when the SHTF? Oh, it will change for the middle class, what is left of it, because it will be the lower class. Think Venezuela. No overnight switch to any other form of government or manufacturing is going to happen in the Us. Do you have a good stock of toilet paper? lol
Americans cannot even get together to clean out DC. Why do you assume that they will unite under one form of control or financial system? I don’t see that happening in the land of the dumbed down and drugged up. I see anarchy and chaos and, maybe, a country divided into many, a North American Europe, when the dust settles and there are maybe 100 million serfs left out of the ~325 million now. We shall see.
makati1 on Sat, 5th May 2018 6:20 pm
MM: “The Kent State shootings (also known as the May 4 massacre or the Kent State massacre) were the shootings on May 4, 1970 of unarmed college students by members of the Ohio National Guard at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio during a mass protest against the bombing of Cambodia by United States military forces. Twenty-eight guardsmen fired approximately 67 rounds over a period of 13 seconds, killing four students and wounding nine others, one of whom suffered permanent paralysis.” WIKI
And you think Putin is bad? Think President Nixon. LMAO
MASTERMIND on Sat, 5th May 2018 6:43 pm
Madkat
I know and your generation did nothing to stop the US government from growing into the monster they are today! And now you flee and wag your finger! You are not good, you just know how to hide….
makati1 on Sat, 5th May 2018 7:29 pm
Mm, I’m not hiding. The Us gov’t knows exactly where I am. I was intelligent enough to get out of Dodge before the gunfight. I was brainwashed just as you are, but I didn’t have the internet and outside news to open my eyes. When I knew what was happening, I left. what’s your excuse?
Davy on Sat, 5th May 2018 7:36 pm
BS, 3rd world, you left because your US life was a failure. Divorce, kicked out of the Mormon Church, and who knows what else. You ran away from a failed life. The whole bullshit story about how bad the US is, on and on, is just a cover. In our own little worlds people don’t make such decisions to leave a life and big family because the government is bad. You are a fake and a fraud parading as some kind of anti-American activist when the real story is you are hiding from your failures with your Filipino boyfriend.
MASTERMIND on Sat, 5th May 2018 8:34 pm
Davy
Damn…that was savage….So true…Madkat is such a do gooder, too bad he couldn’t do good at marriage!
makati1 on Sat, 5th May 2018 8:43 pm
Davy. look in the mirror. YOU are the failure. Living off the family and shoveling bullshit on the internet 24/7/365. All you claim to be is a lie. You are an enabler of the baby killing government you support with you taxes and your verbal diarrhea here. You have no rebuttal so you go into the gutter for your replies. So sik, Davy. So sick.
Keep trying to convince others that you have the true picture of the Us, me, or even life. You are a ‘yuge’ loser, Davy. No future. You are not even in the parking lot, let alone in the ball park. You will never see 74 years. Not even close.
You are a perfect example of why and how the Us is disintegrating You and MM are poster boys for delusion and insanity. The Us is going down and the rest of the world is cheering it on. LMAO
makati1 on Sat, 5th May 2018 8:45 pm
MM, too bad you will never experience the pleasure and responsibility of marriage. It’s difficult to find a woman who want a loser. You never will.
Boat on Sat, 5th May 2018 8:58 pm
Mak
We export billions of gallons of water from our grains. Life giving food. We should turn those exports into biofuels in an attempt to slow overpopulation in countries like yours.
MASTERMIND on Sat, 5th May 2018 9:49 pm
Giuliani: Trump is ‘committed to’ regime change in Iran
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/05/05/giuliani-trump-iran-regime-change-570744
Trump is turning into a raging globalist neo con hammering for more middle east regime change! Tax cuts for the wealthy and wall street and more endless wars for the deep state. Trump is the deep states biggest wet dream come true…
makati1 on Sat, 5th May 2018 10:38 pm
Boat, the stuff that the US imports doesn’t take water? Steel? Aluminum? Rare Earths, etc? And the US imports 25% of it’s food. No water import? LMAO
Boat on Sat, 5th May 2018 11:02 pm
Mak
Ending imports works for me. It would be better for the eath as well.
MASTERMIND on Sat, 5th May 2018 11:11 pm
How Wall Street Enabled the Fracking ‘Revolution’ That’s Losing Billions
“The U.S. shale oil industry hailed as a “revolution” has burned through a quarter trillion dollars more than it has brought in over the last decade. It has been a money-losing endeavor of epic proportions.”
https://www.desmogblog.com/2018/05/04/wall-street-shale-oil-fracking-revolution-losing-billions-continental-resources
MASTERMIND on Sat, 5th May 2018 11:14 pm
Hedge fund star David Einhorn calls fracking companies a joke
http://money.cnn.com/2015/05/04/investing/david-einhorn-oil-fracking-terrible-investment/index.html
Cloggie on Sun, 6th May 2018 1:50 am
Trump is turning into a raging globalist neo con hammering for more middle east regime change! Tax cuts for the wealthy and wall street and more endless wars for the deep state. Trump is the deep states biggest wet dream come true…
And yours. How many times did you incite “bomb, bomb, bomb, Iran”?
Interestingly, deep stater John Kerry still defends the Iran Deal:
https://www.siasat.com/news/john-kerry-defends-iran-nuclear-deal-1350208/
Are you sure that you read Trump correctly?
If I were a closet white nationalist and happened to be the president of the US and were committed to the long-term interests of my “fellow-whites”, meaning preventing them to become a minority in “their own lands” and let “darkies” write their laws… now what would I do with the presidency in order to advance said interests?
Answer: blow up the country into several pieces, breaking the “Stockholm-relationsship” between white America and ZOG-Washington.
Maneuvering America into a war against Iran, meaning against the entire world, is the best guarantee to ensure that America will lose that war and provoke internal insurrections.
Trump is fooling you, millimind:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HH0AvaG3SqQ
Who again is DJT?
https://documents1940.wordpress.com/2018/04/23/donald-trump-understands-the-problem/
Here you have a typical example of a deplorable Trump supporter (first 13 minutes):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBOTk00eMT4
That blond guy is articulating what the majority of white America meanwhile really thinks:
“this is not my country, I couldn’t care less about this country… I want to see this country split up into hundreds of pieces”.
Now, “hundreds of pieces” are a little too difficult to manage from a continental European perspective, but we in Europe love America so much, that we would like to see at least 5 America’s.
Trump is going to deliver, probably intentional.