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Click the thumbs up >Sales of new petrol and diesel cars and vans will stop in the UK from 2030, as part of the Government’s “green industrial revolution”.
The new date is 10 years before the original deadline of 2040. The impact will be huge for drivers across the country. But how will it affect Europe’s largest privately-owned dealer group, Arnold Clark?
AM contributor, Jim McGill, spoke to Arnold Clark chief executive and group managing director, Eddie Hawthorne, to find out.
“I think, genuinely, given the versatility of the motor trade and motor manufacturers, meeting the Government’s new 2030 deadline for stopping the sales of new petrol and diesel cars and vans in the UK is achievable,” said Eddie Hawthorne, Arnold Clark chief executive and group managing director.
“This is where the next wave of the industrial revolution is lying – the green transition.”
John is a professor at Queen’s University – and a green economy expert – and has fairly frank views when it comes to what we all need to be doing here in terms of a cleaner energy future – across industry and domestic life.
“The reality is this is the future,” he says. “It’s bright and it’s green – it’s up there with death and taxes.”
There’s long been a call for Northern Ireland to ensure it’s at the forefront of a greener economy – from green electricity production through the use of wind farms, more energy efficient homes, to a greater focus on public transport, and green public transport, and the proper development of an electric car network here.
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Measures to encourage car buyers to opt for electric models ahead of the Government’s planned 2030 ban on the sale of new petrol and diesel cars are expected to be introduced ahead of the cut-off date.
Dealers should expect restricted supply of ICE models in the lead up to 2030, with Government intervention likely to include punitive taxation on higher-emitting models.
Speaking at the Westminster Energy, Environment & Transport Forum policy conference for low emission vehicles in December, Katie Black, joint head of the Office for Low Emission Vehicles (OLEV) at the Department for Transport (DfT), indicated that the Government wants to avoid a situation where car makers are “selling the maximum amount of petrol and diesel cars right up to the 2030 milestone”.
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