CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -European Union lawmakers and member countries reached a deal to ban the sale of new gasoline and diesel cars and vans by 2035.

Detailed explanation-2: -Like the UK, Germany, Ireland and the Netherlands are also intending to ban petrol and diesel cars by 2030. Norway however, has an even more ambitious target than the UK. It hopes to have banned petrol and diesel cars by 2025.

Detailed explanation-3: -All new conventional petrol and diesel cars and vans are set to be banned from sale in the UK in 2030. New hybrids will be given a stay of execution until 2035, on the condition they are capable of covering a “significant distance” in zero-emission mode - a term which the Government has yet to define.

Detailed explanation-4: -Denmark, for example, has proposed a phase-out of new diesel and petrol car sales in 2030. And Norway, long recognized as a world leader in the adoption of electric vehicles, wants all new light vans and passenger cars sold to be zero emission by the year 2025.