Shell CEO To Launch Electric Car September
By Victor Ernest
The CEO of the Royal Dutch Shell, Ben Van Beurden, one of the world’s biggest oil companies, says his next car would be a vehicle that can run without oil or gas but electricity.
It was reported that the Shell boss plans to switch to a plug-in Mercedes-Benz S500e in September from his diesel car.
It was also reported that the Chief Financial Officer of Shell, Jessica Uhl, already drives a BMW i3 electric car.
The craze for electric cars has been more pronounced in the year 2017 following the effect of climatic change of which its impact is being felt across the world.
It is widely believed that fossil fuels such as petrol or diesel contribute largely to the effect, hence the invention of the electric cars.
Electrifying the economy
”The whole move to electrify the economy, electrify mobility in places like northwest Europe, in the U.S., even in China, is a good thing.
”We need to be at a much higher degree of electric vehicle penetration — or hydrogen vehicles or gas vehicles — if we want to stay within the 2-degrees Celsius outcome,” Van Beurden said in an interview on Bloomberg TV.
The U.K. said Monday it will ban sales of diesel- and gasoline-fueled cars by 2040, two weeks after France announced a similar plan to reduce air pollution and meet targets to keep global warming below two degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit). Carmaker Volvo AB said this month it will manufacture only electric or hybrid vehicles from 2019 onwards.
Electric cars will outsell fossil-fuel powered vehicles within two decades as battery prices plunge, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance.