UK to ban combustion engine cars by 2035

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Britain will ban the sale of petrol and diesel engine cars by 2035 in an effort to reduce pollution,a step which accelerates a shift toward electric cars.

This is viewed as a threat to jobs because electric cars take less time to build and combustion cars have more components.The average combustion engine takes 3.5 hours to make,an electric car takes 1 hour to assemble.

Most of the jobs at risk are in Germany,about 410,000 total jobs is estimated to be at risk.

REUTERS

By virtue of technology combustion engine cars should not even exist by 2035.

Except there is a problem regarding classic cars when it comes to a ban.

Does it reduce pollution?

The electricity likely comes from burning fossil fuels.

It will reduce pollution in one regard--the electric auto does not leak oil or antifreeze onto the road, where it can drain into the water supply.

However, will the battery packs be recycled properly, or will they be broken up by child labor in Ghana as per usual?

I wish England would remember the bicycle.

Sensible transition. I hope Australia follows suite.

If things proceed as excepted, I don't think anyone would actually want to buy an internal combustion engine car in 2035 anymore. I have no idea whether or not one could legally market, say, steam cars nowadays, but the biggest hurdle for that would be that they wouldn't sell.

The UK government have said that they will ban the sale of new petrol, diesel and hybrid cars by 2035. It has not said we are not allowed to buy secondhand cars of these types, neither has it said that we are not allowed to use them after this date.
There is nothing to say that no one is not allowed to buy a steam driven car running off coal so at least we will still have this choice.

Inline-six Plymouths, Toyota Corollas, VW Bugs, Morris Minors, Ford Model T's all right? OK, I'm good then.

Back to steammpowered cars and horse and carts foe us then, as from the looks of it, we will not have even half the power stations we need.
If we had a few nuclear power stations being built we will be fine.

I hope there is a resurgence of homebuilt cars.

2035 seems very optimistic. I do see EV adoption in the UK has recently improved: In January 2020, Plug-In EV Car Sales In The UK Increased By 145%

The pollution from mining e-car batteries is an issue <Canada/S.America/China/Etc>. Mining equipment will never be electrical <torque/power/output>. Electrical parts are hazardous/poisonous in manufacturing and have poisoned rivers in Washington (pcb/dioxins), Mississippi, New York, etc. Nuclear power cheerleaders don't understand the massive amount of envronmental devastation to mine and post-use contamination of super long-term waste that this produces. Or if something goes wrong like Chernobyl, Fukushima being the most recent. More superfund sites...

Interesting.

Seems wildly optimistic to abolish all diesel and gas cars that soon. But maybe that's an upside to Brexit. Britain can tell its Sixty million folks what to drive more easily than it can influence Brussels to tell the 500 million folks in all of Europe what to drive. And if it causes unemployment its German unemployment, and not British unemployment.

More power to them (no pun intended) if they can do it.