In Europe, there will be no petrol or diesel vehicles in a few years.
The EU has pushed back the ICE ban from 2030 to 2035 coutesy of Gemany, Italy and around 6 other countries whils’t they look at E-fuels. Given we get the majority of our cars from the EU, the UK will have little choice to follow suit, regardless what the Con’s want.
The UK governments plan of charging manufacturers hefty fines from 2024, which will increase ear on year untill the ban date, if they don’t sell governments set quota of EV’s during that year and they are unable to buy carbon credits from another manufacturer who has exceeded the set quota is suicide. There lies a big risk of the few manufacturers we have here will relocate to other countries, probably the EU where they have no quota’s to meet and are guaranteed till at least 2035 of producing ICE.
I am not so sure of that China is working on Ammonia powered combustion engine and as we know BMW and Toyota on Hydrogen as they have seen that Electric people are not wanting and there is the toxic batteries as well.
China’s Toyota partner GAC has produce a combustion engine powered by Ammonia” The engine in question is a 2 ltre 161bhp with a higher than normal cylinder pressure to prevent most of the excess Nitrogen from being an issue. The 2 litre I-4 engine has a 90% reduction in in carbon emissions compared tp coventional fuels. The engine itself is more of an experiment and produced for its annual technology showcase. Its highly unlikely to catch on as it produces more than Nitrogen. Its also hard to use and it slow burning. China like the rest of the world is concentrating more on battery and fuel cell and e-fuel powered cars.
However GAC is not the first Ammonia (somewhat toxic fertilizer) as a combustible fuel, it would be the first to use it outside the shipping and trucking industries which use “green” Ammonia…
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmech.2022.944201/full
It just highlights how misleading Youtube video’s can be!