{"id":188117,"date":"2017-07-26T10:48:32","date_gmt":"2017-07-26T08:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=188117"},"modified":"2017-07-26T11:01:39","modified_gmt":"2017-07-26T09:01:39","slug":"uk-to-ban-sale-of-petrol-and-diesel-cars-by-2040","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/motoring\/188117\/uk-to-ban-sale-of-petrol-and-diesel-cars-by-2040\/","title":{"rendered":"UK to ban sale of petrol and diesel cars by 2040"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Britain has announced that it will ban sales of all new gasoline and diesel cars by 2040.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-40723581\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BBC<\/a>, environment secretary Michael Gove confirmed the decision was part of the government&#8217;s push to embrace new technology and address growing concerns of air pollution in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Gove said the government would give more than \u00a3200 million to local authorities to draw up plans to tackle particular roads with high pollution.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What we&#8217;re saying to local authorities is come up with an imaginative solution to these proposals,&#8221; he told the BBC&#8217;s Today programme.<\/p>\n<p>Asked if there could be taxes for drivers of certain vehicles he said: &#8220;I don&#8217;t believe that it is necessary to bring in charging, but we will work with local authorities in order to determine what the best approach is.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year newly-appointed French president\u00a0Emmanuel Macron gave the same 2040 deadline to make the switch to cleaner motoring technology.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/energy\/188093\/how-much-more-you-can-expect-to-pay-for-petrol-next-week\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How much more you can expect to pay for petrol next week<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britain has announced that it will ban sales of all new gasoline and diesel cars by 2040, as part of its ongoing commitments to combat pollution and climate change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":188145,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11119],"tags":[2158],"class_list":["post-188117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-motoring","tag-bbc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188117"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188143,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188117\/revisions\/188143"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}