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All that petrol and diesel which is being used. that s one of the reasons why the government has announced that there will be no more sales of new petrol and diesel cars after the end of this decade. it also means there needs to be a rapid increase in the production and use of electric vehicles ? a process which is already under way. at the end of 2020 there were 432,000 ultra low emission vehicles on uk roads, most of them electric cars ? that s not much more than 1% of the overall total, but there were none just over a decade ago. and worldwide, global sales of electric cars rose by nearly 50% last year ? with well over three million sales taking place during the pandemic. 0ne estimate is that one in five new cars sold will be electric by 2025. so, car companies are making massive investments in electric car production, with plans to phase out the use of the internal combustion engine. the new nissan battery factory in sunderland, announced yesterday, is just one example.
GovernmentOneProcessCarsProductionPetrolIncreaseDieselSalesReasonsVehiclesWay0ur reality check correspondent chris morris has more. the uk is connected by law to get the net zero carbon emissions no later than 2015. than 2050, to limit the rise in global temperatures. now that might sound like a long time in the future ? but to get to net zero, action has to start now, and accelerate quickly. and transport is one of the big challenges. it is currently responsible for 27% of all uk emissions of the greenhouse gases that cause global warming. and cars account for more than half of that amount, as you can see on this chart. all that petrol and diesel which is being used. that s one of the reasons why the government has announced that there will be no more sales of new petrol and diesel cars after the end of this decade. it also means there needs to be a rapid increase in the production and use of electric vehicles ? a process which is already under way. at the end of 2020 there were 432,000 ultra low emission vehicles on uk roads,
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