The Government is preparing to outlaw the sale of new petrol-fuelled motorcycles from 2040 as part of their Net Zero emissions drive. The Telegraph has the story.
The move would affect all vehicles classed as “L3” and upwards, including scooters and light, medium and higher-powered motorcycles. There are around 1.3 million motorcycles registered in the U.K.
It is expected to be revealed soon, according to industry sources, although it is not clear whether Downing Street has signed off on the policy yet.
The change would also be accompanied by a plan to ban sales of new petrol-fuelled mopeds earlier, from 2030.
That reflects the already-high numbers of electric mopeds being sold. They accounted for roughly half of U.K. moped registrations last year.
By contrast, the market for electric motorcycles is far less developed and represented less than 2% of total sales in 2023.
They also suffer from some of the same “range anxiety” issues as electric cars, with many e-motorcycles currently limited to ranges of less than 100 miles while not all are compatible by default with electric car charging stations. …
In a consultation published two years ago, the Department for Transport asked companies to comment on either a 2030 or 2035 ban for motorcycles and mopeds. A ban in 2035 would have been in line with the phasing out of sales of new petrol cars.
But while cars and taxis accounted for 57% of the U.K.’s transport-related carbon emissions in 2021, motorcycles and mopeds represented just 0.5%.
The Motorcycle Industry Association had previously warned that phasing out petrol-fuelled motorcycles by 2035 was “unrealistic” and could cause some manufacturers to “review their place in the U.K. market”.
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Rank stupidity.
On Thursday I rode from home to a beautiful scenic route around Wiltshire, 256 miles on my Ducati. One 5 min fuel stop and the evocative purr of my V twin.
By 2040, I’ll be retired from biking, something I took up after a 37 yr break and now achieve at police skill level.
Yet another freedom grabbed.
Time for the great British public to wake up and throw out the Unaparty.
Ducati? Oh mate, I drooled over them in matlock bath!
The ferrari of motor bikes
Not going to happen I’m afraid. The coming labour government will make this lot look like a golden age.
They just might wake up the dumb public that if you vote for a uni-party, don’t expect much change.
Perhaps the next government should be made to feel the same way about the electorate.
All of this Pretend to Save the Planet Politics comes from the school of thought that says “The lifestyles of the affluent middle classes is unsustainable”. ——-The UN in conjunction with all of the western world’s politicians, with the possible exception of Trump have decided that our standard of living is too high. Ofcourse they will never tell you that to your face. It is all shrouded and cloaked in talk of the environment and preventing temperature rises, reducing emissions of dangerous greenhouses gasses de da de da. But it mostly has nothing to do with any of that. Those are simply plausible excuses. It is very easy to convince 90% of the public that the climate is changing for the worse as it is so variable from season to season, year to year, decade to decade and over longer periods of time that it seems to be the truth. ——-Until you look at data that is. But how many of the public go to the trouble of looking at any data? When people are busy with work and family life it is so much easier to just switch on the 6 O’Clock news and believe in all of the global warming stuff. ——-But as we all should know, believing things gets you into a whole lot of bother. Believing things allows you to be very easily manipulated, and right now we are all being manipulated and coerced into a lower standard of living based on endless propaganda about a climate crisis for which no real empirical evidence exists. —————Wakey wakey people.
It comes from the geopolitical consideration that we don’t have oil anymore and can’t get rich from it, so no one else will.
They don’t care enough about the middle classes ro make them poorer or richer. They care about themselves and their power, which is rapidly flowing away from the west to other parts of the world.
Very true. And our lower standard of living will affect economic growth in a negative way, ensuring the country remains a basket case
I love my motorcycles, the petrol engine snarl is a big part of the attraction as well as an aid to being noticed by other road users. ‘Sorry mate I didn’t see you’ is a common excuse after a collision. I want to be heard – within reason; I keep the baffles in the exhaust out of consideration.
I get roughly 120 miles on a tank and my weekend rides can be 200+ miles if I’m exploring. Tanking up is instant, I don’t want to wait for batteries to charge. Nor do I want a whisper quiet machine. I imagine many bikers feel as I do.
The thing is, most bikers take care of their beloved machines. There are many 30+ year old models still going strong. The second hand market is similarly strong. This ban would prop up the secondary market. I plan to keep my bikes in good shape for many years to come, and would consider getting a new one before the ban comes in.
By 2040 I’ll be pretty old, but I’ll be a cantankerous old git if they try and take my bikes away from me.
I saw an episode of Till death Do Us Part last night, we need more Alf Garnets & Victor Meldrew’s. There was an article on DS about the Victor’s of this World and what they would make of post 2020.
Thinking about a Multistrada…. Love my Versys but… N+1 innit
Do it, why wait? Versys is a fine machine, but does it set your heart aflutter?
What’s with the solitary downticker? Is it the same person having a grump on every post? These are innocuous musings on something we enjoy.
Did you not enjoy your sunny Sunday? I did. Does that upset you?
Mine’s the V2S, a swiss army knife. Assuming you’re 6′ ish, you’ll love it.
Here’s a vehicle made for one of those Just Stop Oil protests.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ooiZeYmYjE
Fiat S76 1911 28.4 litre. Start up and driving Sounds.’The Beast’
Why are the ruling classes such a bunch of joyless bug gers? Gradually taking away folk’s simple pleasures piece by spiteful piece …
They will be taking the keys to my Jaguar XJ8 (4 litres, ta very much) and Honda CB600 motorcycle from my cold dead hands. They’ll be coming for my longbow next.
That is one of my favourite cars the Jaguar X300/308. I have had the 3.2 in the past and the six cylinder 4L X300 that was also LPG. Since the cost of Lockdown crisis I have been more sensible with a Toyota 2.2 diesel.
The last of the proper Jaguars for me. Wonderful cars!
”They’ll be coming for my longbow next.”
I would rather hope that your Longbow will be coming for them.
Into my seventies now but I can still just about manage a 60lb pull English longbow and have somehow collected quite a few arrows over the years. I stand ready to protect the homestead against all comers! (Now where did I leave my walking stick?)
They destroy everything they touch.
An order will have to go through Parliament I think. An ideal time for questions about battery fires.
Msny people keep bicycles, mopeds and motor bikes in their house or integral garage. Fires which occur are catastrophic. there are rules about storing petrol and the design of garages to ensure that in the very unlikely circumstance of petrol leaking in a garage it does not enter a home.
where is the equivalent protection for bikes and their batteries. I noticed my son charging his bike battery on his kitchen worktop. Ugggh.
This means that I will have to get one and continue riding until this idiotic decision is struck down.
Chaaaaaaaaaaarge! And I don’t mean plug anything in.
They’ll have to prise my bike out of my dead hands.
But I suspect the ban on manufacture won’t actually happen. There’ll be a lot more serious things for them to focus on by that time, methinks. Like personal security.
And there’s no way on God’s earth it’s happening here in France. School kids ride 50ccs to school every day. And the biking community is strong and organised: they are sticking it to the authorities regarding the recent introduction of a requirement for motorbikes to have MOTs.
The nature of the folks in power is to be deeply suspicious of people on motorbikes.
The whole climate shenanigans are as far from science as you can get barring voodoo.
This sentence for example: “But while cars and taxis accounted for 57% of the U.K.’s transport-related carbon emissions in 2021″
Carbon emissions? I thought Carbon Dioxide was supposed to be the villain, but Carbon?
Here is what Wikipedia has to say about this ‘dreadful’ element:
Carbon is the 15th most abundant element in the Earth’s crust, and the fourth most abundant element in the universe by mass after hydrogen, helium, and oxygen. Carbon’s abundance, its unique diversity of organic compounds, and its unusual ability to form polymers at the temperatures commonly encountered on Earth, enables this element to serve as a common element of all known life. It is the second most abundant element in the human body by mass (about 18.5%) after oxygen.
And Brittanica
…Although widely distributed in nature, carbon is not particularly plentiful—it makes up only about 0.025 percent of Earth’s crust—yet it forms more compounds than all the other elements combined.
… A natural sequence of chemical reactions called the carbon cycle—involving conversion of atmospheric carbon dioxide to carbohydrates by photosynthesis in plants, the consumption of these carbohydrates by animals and oxidation of them through metabolism to produce carbon dioxide and other products, and the return of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere—is one of the most important of all biological processes.
Nearly all governments rave on about Carbon Neutral and Net Zero and de-carbonising the economy, but reading the description of Carbon above what lunatic thinks Carbon is bad. And just in case someone brings up the Greenhouse affect; the Earth’s atmosphere is not encased in glass or any other kind of physical restriction. In addition the atmosphere is not made up of cubes of air as described by computer climate models. And for good measure, below are some graphs showing how atmospheric CO2 is publicised and what a graph with the correct scale looks like.
With correct graphic
They love to mess about with the axes. It’s quite easy to make a tiny blip seem mountainous. And why not crop the time series to hide that inconvenient contradiction of the narrative?
We saw everyone in govt and msm doing this during coof too.
The UK Government also funded a group to come up with the ‘excellent’ aspirations in the graphic below. Pol Pot’s Year Zero comes to mind.
You know, I wouldn’t fight for this country (ie, foe the UK government) if it went to war with another country. I would however definitely fight for my country, and be prepared to die for my country, in a civil war *AGAINST* this government.
The government of this country is the enemy, alongside the quangos, the civil service, the Progressive Left and the rest of The Blob
That is the point I making to these commentators on the telly, never mind about Russia & China when we have a fifth column working to reduce our freedoms at ant given opportunity. If they are (all of a sudden for some reason) so worried about China for security reasons, why don’t they take a closer look at Jeremy Hunt’s Chinese Communist wife FFS!
And why don’t people take a closer look at Donald Drumpf’s Slovenian Communist porn star wife, whose father was in the Communist Party of her native Slovenia.
I would forgive her, she is hot after all!
“Sales of New Petrol Motorcycles Set to Be Banned From 2040”
MY ARSE!
SUZUKI GS 1000 chain drive!
Good god, it stood up on end! Twist!
Coming out of Matlock bath one time, in the early 80s, on my ap50 ,a Martin special came tearing past a police speed trap on the a6 at god knows what speed, and the BMW police bike just wheeled himself back in again!
No chance!, That bike just disappeared!
Determined bunch of psychopaths aren’t they
No need to fight this alone. Time to join the Motorcycle Action Group, who still hold an annual ride in honour of Fred Hill.
I think I can hear the Hell’s Angels reviving up – should be fun.