The government has announced plans to ban the sale of all new petrol and diesel cars by 2030, as the report noted that the UK was “on track” to meet this target. Speaking to Express.co.uk, David Joffe, the head of carbon budgets at the CCC, and one of the report’s leaders, said: “We’re really pleased with most of the plans in the road transport sector where electric vehicles seem to have taken up quite a bit. widely now. “We’re optimistic now on the path to every new car being fully electric by 2030, so that’s really positive and the government has policies in place to make sure it’s properly funded. “The latest figures say 12 percent of new car sales are electric and that’s more than we expected at this point and that’s growing at the moment.” He noted that the CCC had also come across a number of surveys which showed that “there is a growing proportion” of Britons who would consider making their next car electric. He said: “It’s not just what’s happened in the last few years, but there’s actually growing hope that things will continue to improve over the next 12 to 20 to 40 years. “What we’ve seen in recent years is the amazing reduction in the cost of batteries that has made electric vehicles quite cheap to buy in the last decade really. “Of course, now they’re still a bit more expensive than petrol and diesel cars, but they’re a lot cheaper to run, and that was before petrol prices were what they are now. READ MORE: UK to be EV ‘leader’ as plans for SECOND gigafactory revealed Mr Joffe continued: “There are a lot of things that are fundamentally driven by the economics of this, which is that it will actually save us money as a country. “Even without the fuel tax, we estimate that this will save us £12 billion as a country by 2040 or 2050. “The finances are great, both for the country and for individual drivers. “It’s great to have such good alignment with what we need to do to net zero, along with saving the country money, removing foreign fossil fuel imports and improving air quality. “Because of the technological cost reductions we’ve seen over the last few decades, in batteries and the electricity to power electric vehicles. It’s really been an amazing transformation.”
