The electric car race
Business Daily
BBC
4.4 • 816 Ratings
🗓️ 30 October 2023
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Countries around the world are racing to achieve targets on the ban of new petrol and diesel cars - but they are hitting stumbling blocks, meaning some are pulling back on their commitments.
Although global sales of electric cars are rising, some countries are struggling to persuade drivers to make the switch. Reasons given include insufficient or unsuitable charging points, and the price tag: criticism is often put to governments that the shift to electric cars is hardest for the least well off.
In this edition of Business Daily, Rick Kelsey looks at one country which is well ahead of the rest: Norway. The country's aim is that all new car sales in 2025 will be of electric vehicles - a plan being supported by financial incentives and policy changes.
He also speaks to business leaders in the car industry, including a man known as "the Godfather of EV", to find out what's needed if countries are to phase out internal combustion engines.
(Picture: An electric car being charged. Credit: PA/John Walton)
Presented and produced by Rick Kelsey
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| 0:00.0 | Sport, but not as you know it. |
| 0:03.1 | Nothing is ever quite as expected. |
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| 0:17.1 | Deadlines across the world are closing in for bans of new petrol and diesel cars. |
| 0:22.8 | They're not being banned overnight. |
| 0:25.4 | No one is going to do that. |
| 0:27.0 | No one has suggested that. |
| 0:28.6 | What it is is you can't buy a new one. |
| 0:30.9 | That's all it's about. |
| 0:32.0 | You cannot buy a new one. |
| 0:34.0 | Today we're in a country that leads the world on electric vehicles, Norway, speaking to the woman leading the charge in a market where four in five new car sales are electric. |
| 0:45.3 | Well, we don't call them petrol stations anymore in Norway. We call them energy stations. |
| 0:49.3 | Oh, right, I see. |
| 0:50.3 | Yeah. And most of them have adopted to this new reality and are themselves putting up chargers |
| 0:57.5 | and changing their way of meeting their customers. |
| 1:01.5 | Across Europe, charging points are increasing. |
| 1:04.7 | But will they be worn close enough to you in a squeeze? |
| 1:07.9 | We struggle to find somewhere to charge it |
| 1:11.5 | and we're having to go to a McDonald's. |
| 1:14.7 | It's the only place that we can seem to get a charge from, |
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