Dec 28, 2020<\/p>\n
Japan has announced plans to halt the sale of vehicles relying solely on internal combustion engines after 2035.<\/p>\n
The move means the Asian nation will join a growing list of countries planning to phase out vehicles powered by gas or diesel, including both the United Kingdom and Norway. A number of other countries, including France and Germany, are considering similar bans.<\/p>\n
Vehicles with internal combustion engines won\u2019t be banned entirely. Automakers will still be able to market hybrids in Japan, regulators ruled. Even so, the plan released on Christmas Day was a significant victory for Japanese environmentalists considering it was strongly opposed by key industry leaders, including Toyota President Akio Toyoda who warned earlier this month that a broad shift to electric vehicles could cause the auto industry\u2019s traditional business model [gasoline] \u201cto collapse.\u201d<\/p>\n
In October, shortly after assuming his post, Japan\u2019s new Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga had pledged to cut Japan\u2019s carbon dioxide emissions to net zero by 2050 while indicating he supported a shift to battery-powered vehicles.<\/p>\n
While Japanese automakers were pioneers with their early push to bring hybrids to market, \u201cJapan is very far behind\u201d in terms of developing more advanced products relying solely on battery power, Masayoshi Arai, an official with the country\u2019s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, said last week.<\/p>\n
Nissan is one of a few Japanese automakers dedicating resources to a move to EVs.<\/p>\n
With the Christmas Day announcement, Japan becomes the second member of the Group of Seven, or G7, to lay out specific plans to ban non-electrified vehicles.<\/p>\n
The UK originally had planned to do so by 2040 but now has pushed that target date up to 2030. Like Japan, its ban will continue to permit the sale of hybrids \u2013 but only through 2035, at which point only pure, zero-emissions vehicles will be able to be sold in Great Britain. That will include both BEVs and hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles.<\/p>\n
A handful of other countries, including Norway, have also laid out ZEV transition plans. So have some states and regions \u2013 including California and the Canadian province of British Columbia. A number of cities, such as London, Paris, Berlin and Mexico City, plan to bar vehicles not running in zero-emissions mode, meanwhile. China, meanwhile, has laid out plans to have \u201cNew Energy Vehicles,\u201d plug-based models, reach 20% of the market by 2025. It is considering a total ban at a later date.<\/p>\n
China, is expected to again top 1 million plug-based models for all of 2020.<\/p>\n
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