Internal Combustion Engines In The Crosshairs, Paris To BAN Anything But EVs By 2030 — WHICH City Is Next?

Paris will step up its crackdown on polluting vehicles by banning all petrol-fuelled cars from the city’s streets by 2030, the mayor’s office has said.

That promise comes in the wake of Mayor Anne Hidalgo's recently announced plan to ban all diesel cars from the French capital by 2024, the year when Paris will host the Summer Olympics.

Only electric-powered cars will be allowed in the world’s most visited city if the latest measures on petrol-fuelled vehicles - which have yet to be formally approved - are enforced...

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TheSteve - 10/13/2017 4:01:09 AM

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I'm not sure which to anticipate with greater interest: The Second Coming or The Banning of ICE.

I'm an "ICEr" and I'm not sweating it, much to the chagrin of sensationalized and panicked copy-writers. I'm taking a "wait and see" approach, rather than running out and buying an EV today, just in case my ICE car is banned tomorrow ;-)

MDarringer - 10/13/2017 8:05:29 AM

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Given that you don't know among those two choices, you atheist heart should go with banning ICE. :)

HenryN - 10/13/2017 9:27:04 AM

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I'd say Bakersfield is next. It's the worst polluted city in the US.

And for those true ICE believers, stick to your diesels and Mustangs until you go extinct with them. With global warming, ICE is going away for good.

Vette71 - 10/13/2017 9:43:27 AM

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Even Elon Musk is an ICER! He has admitted that his favorite car that he owns is a Jaguar XKE!

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/billionaire-tesla-ceo-elon-musk-reveals-he-owns-two-gas-cars-and-one-is-his-%E2%80%98first-love%E2%80%99/ar-AAtnbQi?li=BBnbfcN

HenryN - 10/13/2017 10:03:11 AM

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No one is perfect. The goal is to REDUCE GHG emission collectively. Remember we humans emit CO2 just by our mere existence.

MDarringer - 10/14/2017 9:08:15 PM

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@HenryN The considerable air pollution in Bakersfield has very little to do with cars and very much to do with agriculture, oil production, and wind patterns that funnel pollution from Fresno down the valley to us.

Nice try at a stab, but you--one again--showed your lack of coherent thought.

CANADIANCOMMENTS - 10/13/2017 5:34:21 PM

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If beef from a Petrie dish ever can scale to compete with cows AND ice vehicles and coal plants are banned, the planet may just have a chance after all.