2、hension(30miutes)PartIIIReadingMany European countries have been making the shift to electric vehicles and Germany has juststated that they plan to ban the sale of vehicles using gasoline and diesel as fuel by 2030. Thecountry is also planning to reduce its carbon footprint by 80-9
3、5% by 2050, 26 a shift to greenenergy in the country. Effectively, the ban will include the registration of new cars in the countryas they will not allow any gasoline 27 vehicle to be registered after 2030.Part of the reason this ban is being discussed and 28 is because energy offi
4、cials see that theywill not reach their emissions goals by 2050 if they do not 29 a large portion of vehicleemissions. The country is still 30 that it will meet its emissions goals, like reducing emissions by 40% by 2020, but the 31 of electric cars in the country has not occurred
5、as fast as ejected.Other efforts to increase the use of electric vehicles include plans to build over 1 million hybridand electric car battery changing stations across the country. By 2030, Germany plans onhaving over 6 million charging stations 32 . According to the International
6、Business Times, electric car sales are expected to increase as Volkswagen is still recovering from its emissionsscandal.There are 33 around 155,000 registered hybrid and electric vehicles on German roads, dwarfedby the 45 million gasoline and diesel cars driving there now. As count
7、ries continue settinggoals of reducing emissions, greater steps need to be taken to have a 34 effect on thesurrounding environment. While the efforts are certainly not 35 , the results of such bans willlikely only start to be seen by generations down the line, bettering the world f
