Israel Aims To Ban Gasoline, Diesel Vehicles By 2030 (cleantechnica.com)

An anonymous reader quotes a report from CleanTechnica: 2030 seems like a long way off, but it's really just around the corner. And when the bell tolls at midnight on December 31, 2030, you may not be able to buy a gasoline- or diesel-powered vehicle in Israel. After that date, all passenger cars will be electric and all trucks will be powered by electricity or compressed natural gas, if a proposal currently under consideration gets approved by the government. A final decision is expected by the end of this year. Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz [told Reuters last month] the biggest challenge will be creating a "critical mass" of electric and CNG powered vehicles before the deadline arrives. "We are already encouraging [the transition] by funding ... more than 2,000 new charging stations around the country," he says. The plan was set in motion one day after the United Nations issued its latest climate assessment that finds nations must do far more than they are currently doing in order to stave off warmer global average temperatures that will put the environment at risk. In order to reach the goal, the Israeli government will "reduce taxation on electric cars to almost zero, so they are going to be much cheaper," Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz said. He expects there will be about 177,000 electric cars on Israeli roads around 2025. By 2030, the expectation is that there will be nearly 1.5 million EVs in the country. The country has a ways to go though, as there are less than 100 electric cars on the roads today.

Comments

Go Israel!

[b0s0z0ku]

Way to stick it to the Saudis and Iranians. Be on the forefront of making their primary product worthless while helping your own environment...

Re:Go Israel!

[drinkypoo]

"Fossil fuels are going nowhere unless we get a major attitude shift towards nuclear reactors or by some miracle fusion becomes viable."

Such a stupid thing to say. Renewables are cheaper than nukes, so nukes won't help more than they will. The obvious solution is to put solar panels over parking lots. It's cheap to put them there, and doing so actually extends the life of the paving surface. This would work especially well in Israel, where there is plenty of insolation. And you don't need storage to go with it, because the cars are the storage.

Re:Go Israel!

[K. S. Kyosuke]

Personal automotive EV transportation will never go mainstream.

There's a lot of "X will never happen" quotes that became famous for the wrong(ness) reason, but it really takes a special person to make such a comment just as that X in question is slowly happening.

This is the *MOST STUPID* article, ever !!

[Anonymous Coward]

Are you telling us that the Israelis going to turn all their military vehicles, including tanks, trucks, and bulldozers, into EV?

Are you going to tell us that the Israelis gonna convert their fleet of fighters into solar planes?

Are you going to tell us that the Israeli missiles going to be propelled by electricity?

This is STUPID !!

Re:The poor get screwed

[MightyMartian]

Shocking story but powertrains in vehicles fail to. And most EVs seem to have warranties on batteries of 10 years

Re:The poor get screwed

[Ichijo]

If they can't afford to get to work, who's going to clean toilets and flip burgers? Will toilets go uncleaned and burgers unflipped, or will employers be forced to pay more for low wage jobs?

Re:Switching to EVs does very little good if

[shilly]

All you're doing is shifting the CO2 emissions from the tailpipe to the smokestack.

Think about that "all" for a bit. Also the "CO2" in front of "emissions".
You get to shift 100% of tailpipe emissions of all types, not just CO2, out of city centres and suburbs to large scale powerplants that can run at maximum efficiency with much more effective scrubbers. That's a set of major gains right there.

Re:Trump

[Joce640k]

I wanted to see someone from outside the system take the reins for a while and shake things up.

How's that going? Is the swamp drained yet?

Re: Switching to EVs does very little good if

[mrvan]

Theres no getting in the car with the fuel light on. For most people and most usage cases a daily range of 450km is more than enough. It doesnt really matter if it takes 6 hrs to charge if youre asleep.

The only time charge time matters is when you exceed 450km in a day.

Also remember this article is about Israel. Haifa to Eilat is 450km, and there's pretty much nothing longer you could drive. Any two places excluding the Negev desert you can do round trip, including e.g. Haifa to Beersheba. The borders to Lebanon and Syria are closed. Theoretically you can drive to Jordan and Egypt, but almost no one ever does. So, while in the US 300 miles might not be all one ever drives in a day, in Israel I'm pretty sure it covers most use cases :)

Re:Trump

[drinkypoo]

I am a EE and I also have a JD ( law degree, patent law ) and I voted for Trump. Not all who voted for Trump were idiots,

True. Some were merely morally corrupt shitbags who figured he'd make them richer, and who didn't give a crap anyone anyone but themselves. Every single person who decided to support Trump is also supporting racism and rape, and there's literally no way around that simple fact.

I voted for Trump because I wanted to see someone from outside the system take the reins for a while and shake things up.

And it was okay with you if they were a racist rapist who even before they became president cost the USA millions of dollars in court costs through deliberately manipulative and fraudulent business practices.