Promoting a future of electric cars, the U.K. will ban sales of new gas and diesel vehicles by 2040. Many European politicians and regulators see electric autos as critical for reducing air pollution.

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The internal combustion engine was dealt another blow on Wednesday when the U.K. pledged to ban the sale of new gasoline and diesel cars by 2040, following a similar move three weeks ago by France.

Britain will ban sales of new gasoline and diesel cars starting in 2040 as part of a bid to clean up the country’s air.

The British government is set to ban new diesel and petrol cars from U.K. roads by 2040—but some critics dismissed the move as a "smokescreen" to distract attention from failure to tackle ...

From 2040 all new vehicle sales must be fully electric cars, reports the Times. Not even hybrid vehicles will be allowed to be sold in the U.K. after 2040. The move comes as the U.K. attempts to ...

The previous 2040 target would have allowed the continued ... Although far smaller than the U.S, the U.K.'s car market is still one of the largest in Europe, with 2.3 million passenger vehicles ...

The U.K. became the latest European country to mark the end of the line for diesel and gasoline fueled cars as automakers ... ban sales of the vehicles by 2040, two weeks after France announced ...

Sign up to receive the Green Daily daily newsletter and follow us @climate. The number of electric cars on Britain’s roads will jump to 30 million in the next 20 ...

Leaders in the U.K. want to make it illegal to drive ... ban the sale of new gas or diesel vehicles by 2040. The plan is to phase out all cars with internal combustion engines by 2050.

“Our modelling shows that 79 percent of new cars could be electric by 2040 in the U.K. even under existing policies, thanks to rapidly falling battery costs,” said Albert Cheung, analyst at ...