I can think of many. The list should start with coal power plants (hello, green Germany), then two-stroke engines (both mopeds and leaf blowers / lawn mowers), then diesel engines, especially diesel buses and trucks. None of that is in place.

Modern gasoline and hybrid cars are fine, banning them at this point in time would mean a drop in quality of life for negligible gain.

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Dylan16807 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

Diesel transport trucks and busses are getting a lot of work done per gallon. How much worse are their emissions?

Hybrid cars might be good enough, but banning pure combustion cars from cities sounds perfectly reasonable to me. No real quality of life impact.

	▲	boesboes 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		And how are we going to charge all those EV's? the grid is already overloaded in many places. Here we are requested to not charge our cars during certain times to reduce load. And how will all the people that are buying 500€ second hand cars afford electric? Don't get me wrong, I think there is merit in a ICE free future, especially in urban areas, but the practicalities.. And I am not convinced the long term impacts of EV are fully appreciated necessarily.

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pjc50 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Realistically this is what's happening in the UK with "low emission zones", the worst of the emitters are banned. Although public buses of course get an exemption until they can manage a changeover.

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Symbiote 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Meant German cities have electric or natural gas buses. Electric local delivery vans are becoming more common.