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Sounds like a good policy. The ULEZ in London (soft ban on pre-EURO 6 diesels) introduced in 2019 has already made a noticeable difference to air quality.
by Reason077 4y ago
Sounds like a good policy. The ULEZ in London (soft ban on pre-EURO 6 diesels) introduced in 2019 has already made a noticeable difference to air quality.
- lloeki 4y agoYeah, it makes sense, the area is very sensitive to air pollution buildups. Combined with some other changes on peak events it already went from absolutely terrible (like, actual smog) to somewhat poor. That said, the EV infrastructure is heavily underdeveloped, and I have a hard time seeing that change enough in the next 5 years. I mean, it's possible but to scale in time with demand it needs to start happening now... which it doesn't. I mean the proper use of EV is to charge at rest (e.g parking lots), not at gas^Wpower stations. So in the next years there's going to be tension between getting a throwaway hybrid/petrol car or go EV but suffer from contention on charging spots. Now, personally I'm a bit annoyed because my corner case of a car is peculiar: we own two, one rank 1 low emission daily driver and one seldom driven EURO-4 petrol sports car (so, rank 2) that'll be banned in 2028 but wanted to keep as a collector, which happens at 30y, and it'll be "only" 20 by then. To boot there's no exception (yet?) for such (or any actually) collector vehicles, which means they're being made illegal, and should theoretically go to the grinder, or forever be relegated to barns or museums, which is a real shame.