The impact of low temperature on flow batteries

Nowadays, we often see the word impact being used as a verb. My question is, should it be always followed by the preposition on? Oxford Dictionaries gives the following …

This change has no impact in the system''s current behaviour. Is the preposition in grammatical here? I think we should have used on instead: This change has no impact on the …

Is there a grammarians'' consensus as to the usage of impact (as a verb)? Should it always take the preposition on or is it a matter of personal preference?

As a note, I would find the transitive use, "The court ruling will impact the education of minority students," to be perfectly clear, but the intransitive use, "The court ruling …