New diesel and petrol cars banned from UK roads by 2030
Discussion
ecsrobin said:
I just don’t see how as a country we can go completely electric. I’m inner city with on street parking. If I had a charging cable in my car overnight I guarantee someone pissed from a pub would unplug the whole street as they walk along, as I know that’s what I would do 
Who knows what the next 20 plus years will bring. I can imagine babies born tomorrow not learning to drive themselves in the sense you and I did. "Click" and an autonomous "vehicle" arrives at their chosen location at a pre-arranged time and shuttles them to their destination before heading off to its next client...I don't imagine in 2040 we will approach vehicle ownership in the way we do now to anything like the same extent. My vehicle is stationary for, what, 95% of the time?
scenario8 said:
Who knows what the next 20 plus years will bring. I can imagine babies born tomorrow not learning to drive themselves in the sense you and I did. "Click" and an autonomous "vehicle" arrives at their chosen location at a pre-arranged time and shuttles them to their destination before heading off to its next client...
I don't imagine in 2040 we will approach vehicle ownership in the way we do now to anything like the same extent. My vehicle is stationary for, what, 95% of the time?
Perhaps true in the big conurbations, cant see it working elsewhere.I don't imagine in 2040 we will approach vehicle ownership in the way we do now to anything like the same extent. My vehicle is stationary for, what, 95% of the time?
ecsrobin said:
I just don’t see how as a country we can go completely electric. I’m inner city with on street parking. If I had a charging cable in my car overnight I guarantee someone pissed from a pub would unplug the whole street as they walk along, as I know that’s what I would do
Worse than that, they plan to use your battery car to keep the grid up, so you get up in the morning to drive to work, only to find they've drained your batteries via your smart meter, because the windmills produced no energy yet AGAIN.Of the metered 12GW of windmills, it's currently producing 0.24GW (0.8% of very low demand) , between about July 3rd and 13th - all those massively expensive subsidised uneconomic windmills generated hardly anything worthwhile at all.
ATEOTD all these ambitions re. renewables and EV cars will hit the buffers and reality will prevail, but not before it's half destroyed the economy and cost us all a fortune.
The loons are currently in charge.
It doesn't say ALL banned anyway, it says from some areas.
scenario8 said:
Who knows what the next 20 plus years will bring. I can imagine babies born tomorrow not learning to drive themselves in the sense you and I did. "Click" and an autonomous "vehicle" arrives at their chosen location at a pre-arranged time and shuttles them to their destination before heading off to its next client...
I don't imagine in 2040 we will approach vehicle ownership in the way we do now to anything like the same extent. My vehicle is stationary for, what, 95% of the time?
But I thought we were meant to be eating food pills by now and building bungalows on the moon.I don't imagine in 2040 we will approach vehicle ownership in the way we do now to anything like the same extent. My vehicle is stationary for, what, 95% of the time?
bloomen said:
Seems fair enough to me. The tech had better get its skates on though, let alone our capacity to generate enough power.
Why? New petrol cars aren't that bad on pollution, granted we shouldn't rely on finite sources of energy, but can't just bully drivers.And what will happen to electricity? It will get taxed through the roof to make up for lost revenue on petrol. And that will hit us in the house not just for the car!
This is such a hairbrained scheme, hopefully manufacturers lobby it!
SydneyBridge said:
I am assuming this is solely diesel and petrol powered cars, some kind of hybrid wil be ok
Volvo have the right idea
Possibly.Volvo have the right idea
I'd be in my 50s at 2040, and wouldn't mind a Tesla. By then I am sure that electric cars will have come a long way, but the gov't will still be clueless. Hate the whine from electric cars though!
It's a great idea, nothing stops pollution from cars like pollution from Electricity generation. Unless renewable generation goes through a seismic shift towards the better, we go on a france-level nuclear power program or millions of people die and theres no real need for driving i don't see it working.
Also, hate to get all tinfoil but "Banning" Cars, the horse isn't banned from the road as a leisure pursuit.
To add to this, will there be a "Red Cymbal Act" limiting EV's to driving behind a marching band to alert people that they're just around that blind bend?
Also, hate to get all tinfoil but "Banning" Cars, the horse isn't banned from the road as a leisure pursuit.
To add to this, will there be a "Red Cymbal Act" limiting EV's to driving behind a marching band to alert people that they're just around that blind bend?
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