The Italian capital has announced plans to ban private diesel vehicles within the historical centre as of 2024. The Roman mayor Virginia Raggi announced the plan in at the Women4Climate conference in Mexico City.
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The silent approach of electric vehicles is seen as a danger by some and so hybrid and electric vehicles must emit artificial noises sounding their approach. The “Quiet Car Rule” was to take effect in the States next year but has now been delayed until 2020.
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The German ministry for the environment (BMUB) has now made its support for the electrification of electric transport official. Bus operators can recover 80 percent of cost when buying more than 5 electric buses, including charging infrastructure.
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Cities in Germany now have the right to ban diesel vehicles within their city limits, according to a new court ruling that had been long expected. Hamburg is the first town to take advantage of the new situation, putting the industry under yet more pressure.
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The EU Commission has approved funding of 70 million euros for Germany to invest in electric and plug-in hybrid buses as well as charging infrastructure until 2021. Proposed measures had been found to be in line with EU state aid rules.
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The German federal administrative court in Leipzig has announced their decision to postpone their decision on a possible diesel prohibition within cities until Tuesday, 27. Central to the discussion is the question whether German cities can afford to ban diesel vehicles in legal terms.
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The Irish government has published its new national development plan ‘Project Ireland 2040’ which outlines the country’s move to a low carbon economy bolstered with 116 billion euros. 22bn have been earmarked for climate protection measures, including electric transport initiatives.
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The Chinese government has made a statement that they want to promote the development of fuel cell technology and vehicles in the country. Beijing has already started to detail the construction of hydrogen filling stations.
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The Balearic government has announced plans to ban vehicles that run on fossil fuels from the streets of Mallorca, as well as from those on the other Balearic Islands by 2035. A diesel-ban is to start even sooner, by 2025.
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The new German government is thinking to make public transport in cities free of charge for everybody in an attempt to clear the air with Brussels. The EU Commission threatens to file a lawsuit against Germany after cities continue to fail to stay within emission limits.
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China’s central government is increasing EV subsidies for electric cars travelling 150 km+ on a single charge but in turn makes this the new threshold EVs have to cross to become eligible for funding. At the same, the grant for long-range EVs from 400 km has been raised.
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In a change of heart, China’s government is pondering to allow provinces to continue with local subsidies for EVs to sustain the rising demand for new energy vehicles in the country, Bloomberg quotes sources close to the matter.
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The U.S. Congress has voted to retroactively extend tax credits for EV charging infrastructure, fuel cell vehicles and electric motorcycles through the end of 2017. Anyone who had invested in such vehicles or installation can qualify for these rebates on their upcoming tax return.
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A draft for a new law in California may force ride-share programs such as Uber and Lyft to switch to all-electric fleet by 2028. The government aims to facilitate the process by offering subsidies valued at a total of 300 million dollars.
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Germany’s grand coalition of CDU and SPD has confirmed the set of measures for electric mobility it had drafted a few days ago. Policies include tax reliefs as well as charging infrastructure and the electrification of fleets.
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The European Commission decided to file a lawsuit against Malta and Romania at the EU’s Court of Justice. Both countries have failed to hand in a national strategy for rolling out infrastructure for electric and alternative fuel vehicles.
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Germany’s leading parties CDU and SPD continue their struggle to form a coalition government. Some progress has been made though on questions of electric transport, according to documents electrive.net has had access to.
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The German state of North Rhine-Westphalia has announced new support and subsidies for electric mobility concepts in the state, which will take effect as of the 5th of February. This will include public charging sites as well as communal support to transform the public transportation system.
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The recently announced subvention program that the South Korean government planned to roll out, has officially taken effect. A total of 12 million Won (11,160 dollars) per person have been allocated to subvention a total of 16 different car models from both local and foreign producers.
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The Irish government is planning to add to its existing subsidy plan in a specific area, taxis. The move is designed to include cab companies into the wider plan to electrify public transport.
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The heart of East London may soon be freed from all diesel or gasoline powered and even older hybrid vehicles if a plan by the boroughs of Hackney, Islington and Tower Hamlets comes to pass. The councils want to mark-off two walking and cycling zones during peak times.
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California looks to ramp up electric car sales. Governor Jerry Brown set a new target of 5 million electric vehicles in California by 2030, up from a prior target of 1.5 million by 2025.
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The Latin American country has put the import tax for electric buses to 0%. Importers and manufacturers can bring in a total of 350 electric buses duty-free over the next three years. But, for each electric bus imported, they must source another one locally.
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The plan for a Europe-wide battery alliance is due next month. EU vice president Maroš Šefčovič is facing opposition from the industry though as executives doubt their investment in a European Gigafactory would pay off.
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Berlin’s legislative approved a package of measures to improve air quality and to prevent driving bans. The package includes 10 immediate actions such as a further expansion of charging infrastructure on semi-public and private ground.
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Since the beginning of the year, the country’s government is no longer granting 14m won (around 10,700 euros) to everybody buying an EV, but contributes 10.7m to 12m won – depending on the EV’s battery capacity.
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The French have cracked two thresholds of e-mobility this year. First, more than 40,000 plug-in vehicles made it into private garages and secondly, PEVs now account for almost 1.5% of all sales.
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It looks like 2040 will be the year that finishes fossil-fuel powered vehicles off for good. Japan has now joined the growing circle of countries to set that deadline. Tokyo though wants to work with substantial incentives rather than penalties.
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With 14 million two-wheelers for its populace of 23 million, Taiwan praises itself to have the highest motorcycle density in the world. Accordingly, its latest law for climate action aims to get their exhaust under control.
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The Golden State has set its course on climate action and the latest proposal requests to put a halt on all sales of gas guzzlers from 2040 onwards. Chances are for the zero-emission legislation to be passed into law.
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