ireland accelerates the end of the ice age

Ireland has become the latest country to bring forward its plans to ban the sale of petrol vehicles, setting the deadline at 2030.

Meanwhile the UK is also considering bringing that deadline forward in part to do its bit for the environment and to bring it into line with London, which is targeting 2030.

While there remain grey areas as to the definition of said bans, specifically if “fossil-fuel vehicles” stretches to motorbikes, it’s reasonable to assume that the industry will be grouped in with its four-wheel counterparts at some stage, if not immediately.

Here are the current deadlines for nations around the world:

As for cities in the UK, only Oxford – as well as the aforementioned London – has set a target for a ban with an aggressive target of 2020 in the immediate centre before this spreads out further incrementally.