yeah... sadly there's more headlines in banning something than in - in this instance - steady work to make all cars much much cleaner. There's some stats kicking about in a UK Gov paper that suggest the car industry has got a whole lot less-polluting over the past 20-30 years, in spite of there being many more cars on the road.
Politicians are at their best when they legislate for standards. If the technology can meet the standard it can be sold.
Manufacturers are already obliged to clean up the whole lifecycle of their products, at inception, in use and end of life.
There's work ongoing to reduce the
pollution from tyres and brakes which exceed exhaust pollutions on cars, be they IC, Hybrid or EV - but proclamations to ban things get headlines, not quiet, purposeful progress.
Will
