£5000 subsidy for electric cars.

[G'kar]

From 2011.

Further promises include that every man woman and child will receive a helicopter made of jelly, their own tardis, bionic toes and a tap dancing unicorn.

[marsred]

All of which can be charged simply by plugging them into fairy breath driven windmills.

[sleep envy]

this unicorn, does it come with it's own song book?

[john_p]

The £5000 subsidy will be paid by ... let's just guess ...

changes to VED and new registration fees for "GAS-GUZZLERS"

[G'kar]

sleep envy said:

this unicorn, does it come with it's own song book?

Gordon Brown said:

fk it, we'll never have to deliver. It will come with it's own iPod.

[Mclovin]

correct me but do we actually make any electric vehicles....this subsidy isnt even goin to benefit our economy...i think the peewizz is like 5000 imagine hell on earth...

[Bing o]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8001254.stm

fking mongs running this government - expect to see another 2p on petrol as well no doubt.

[dazren]

john_p said:

The £5000 subsidy will be paid by ... let's just guess ...

changes to VED and new registration fees for "GAS-GUZZLERS"

Should help Land Rover, Jaguar and Aston.

These clowns in Whitehall really don't know what the other hand is doing. Stop people buying the cars whilst lending the companies money as the jobs they provide are essential. WTF? Make your damn mind up.

[chris watton]

What was that car on Top Gear, that used a water based fuel, surely that's the way forward?

[Benny Saltstein]

This is part of the pre-budget build up, same every year. Release some snippets of news to take the edge off whatever the Brown/Badger face puppeteer combo comes out with this year.

£5k grants will have negligable impact on the public purse right now because there's a very limited choice of electric vehicles around and no-one wants them because they're st.

[mattviatura]

Well that's the motor industry saved then. Good work Gordon.

You fking wker

[Hyperion]

Will this be just another grant that strangely enough, I don't quite qualify for

[Einion Yrth]

Hyperion said:

Will this be just another grant that strangely enough, I don't quite qualify for

Winky Mcfknut scheme to start in 2011? I rather hope it doesn't happen at all for obvious reasons. Although Gideon and CMD appear to be of similar feckwittedness when it comes to this 'green' claptrap.

[thinfourth2]

dazren said:

john_p said:

The £5000 subsidy will be paid by ... let's just guess ...

changes to VED and new registration fees for "GAS-GUZZLERS"

Should help Land Rover, Jaguar and Aston.

These clowns in Whitehall really don't know what the other hand is doing. Stop people buying the cars whilst lending the companies money as the jobs they provide are essential. WTF? Make your damn mind up.

Well they didn't actually expect us to stop buying cars now did they when they told us to stop buying cars.

When they said "Stop buying cars" what they actually meant is "Please keep buying cars and paying us loads and loads of dosh so we can give it to people who have never had a real job"

[Jasandjules]

Can Winky please explain where the electricity comes from to power these "Eco" cars.......

Then of course he can clarify why it's more environmentally friendly to buy a new car (and all the "carbon emissions" in producing it and transporting it) contrasted with keeping a resource which has already been produced.

[elster]

chris watton said:

What was that car on Top Gear, that used a water based fuel, surely that's the way forward?

Don't remember. But merc made one about 10 years ago.

The fact is the process of getting hydrogen is so inefficient will burn so much energy it is just not worth it.

[otolith]

This Times article claims that the subsidy will apply to hybrids as well - that's just nuts, given that there are non-hybrids of comparable or better CO2 ratings which don't qualify.

Winky's lost the plot.

[Groober]

reading all the news stories really infuriates me. The only concerns they seem to think the public have is affordability. At the end of the day I dont want an electric car wether it costs 50k or 50p. I love my petrol powered cars, the noise, the smell on a cold winter morning. I dont really need a car but I have one because I love motoring. The dawn of the electric car will suck big time and looks to spell the end for petrolheads like you and me.

What will become of our dear old friend the engine?

[peterperkins]

Groober said:

reading all the news stories really infuriates me. The only concerns they seem to think the public have is affordability. At the end of the day I dont want an electric car wether it costs 50k or 50p. I love my petrol powered cars, the noise, the smell on a cold winter morning. I dont really need a car but I have one because I love motoring. The dawn of the electric car will suck big time and looks to spell the end for petrolheads like you and me.

What will become of our dear old friend the engine?

Sorry Groober time and the march of technology waits for no man.

Like the zillions of things that have come and gone in history the IC car, the hybrid and battery EV will come and go as something else "better" takes it's place. The IC has had a good innings but it's time to move on.

I'm not saying all old IC cars should be rounded up and crushed, they will just fade away as they become less desirable due to tax breaks, impossibly priced fuel, accidents etc.

Their numbers will be slowly whittled down but they will linger on with enthusiasts and collectors like you and me perhaps, brought out for a special trip at weekends.

They will fade away into obscurity becoming the objects of curiosity at some 22nd century nostalgia museum.

[turbobloke]

Jasandjules said:

Can Winky please explain where the electricity comes from to power these "Eco" cars.......

Then of course he can clarify why it's more environmentally friendly to buy a new car (and all the "carbon emissions" in producing it and transporting it) contrasted with keeping a resource which has already been produced.

Quite. And with pathetic percent of power generation from windymills, all they're doing is transferring the emissions (not that they're problematic in modern cars) from the tailpipe to the fossil fuel burning power stations supplying the charge. Ten years to the next generation of nukes.