WOW! China to Ban Sale of Fossil Fuel Cars in Electric Vehicle Push

[kpete]

China will set a deadline for automakers to end sales of fossil-fuel powered vehicles, a move aimed at pushing companies to speed efforts in developing electric vehicles for the world’s biggest auto market.

Xin Guobin, the vice minister of industry and information technology, said the government is working with other regulators on a timetable to end production and sales. The move will have a profound impact on the environment and growth of China’s auto industry, Xin said at an auto forum in Tianjin on Saturday.

A ban on combustion-engine vehicles will help push both local and global automakers to shift toward electric vehicles, a carrot-and-stick approach that could boost sales of energy-efficient cars and trucks and reduce air pollution while serving the strategic goal of cutting oil imports. The government offers generous subsidies to makers of new-energy vehicles. It also plans to require automakers to earn enough credits or buy them from competitors with a surplus under a new cap-and-trade program for fuel economy and emissions.



https://www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/articles/2017-09-09/china-to-ban-sale-of-fossil-fuel-cars-in-electric-vehicle-push

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[msongs]

1. meanwhile in the USA - no action needed nt

[Corvo Bianco]

6. Meanwhile in the USA we put Exxon in charge

[mitch96]

15. Probably B/C they are not owned by the oil companies n/t

[JDC]

2. They will still make them I'll bet

[lunasun]

4. If you read it says working to end production . They are moving forward with ending sales and

production also

[JDC]

7. Shame on me for posting w/o reading. Thank you

Will read

[JDC]

8. So I read it. I was referring to their making cars for the US

This leads me to believe they are referring to cars for their own market. Are they telling GM to make their US bound cars somewhere else?

[mitch96]

16. But not use them..

Like a drug pusher.. you don't rely on your own supply....
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[procon]

3. Soon, we will have coal fired, steam driven horseless carriages. I want a blue one. nt

[Equinox Moon]

5. Radical RW in America is slowing down American progress.

We used to lead. We are trailing more and more because of billionaire greed.

[RainCaster]

9. The real issue is one billionaire and his "Bubbas"

Who will be able to repair those electric cars? We need to keep making gas cars!

[ananda]

10. About time!

But this should have been done by every country
way before this.

Climate change is an escalating process, and we're
only seeing the beginning regardless.

Still, I guess it's good to do something.

[BigmanPigman]

11. Exactly! It is almost too little, too late.

But CO2 isn't the only problem. The permanent frost is currently melting and releasing tons of Methane which is just as damaging. Since this is relatively unknown territory for scientists it is very difficult to predict anything. Last night on Bill Maher he had a guest return to his show and they mentioned how our diet (eating meat which causes methane to be released into the atmosphere) is just about as important a factor in climate change as cars, factories, pollution, etc. We are not going to be able to turn this around...it is too late but at least SOME COUNTRIES are making an effort!

[airplaneman]

12. Not only not eating meat but ending modern oil driven farming (the Green revolution).

Just switching to organic farming could make a huge difference.
-Airplane

[BigmanPigman]

13. Jefferson Airplane?

[airplaneman]

14. I like them too. n/t.

[NickB79]

17. They haven't decided when yet. My bet is 2040

Kick the can down the road one more generation.