No new Petrol or Diesel cars after 2035

Maybe they could build a high speed rail line.........

 

You will have a special electricity point for car charging, or you will share one with a personal energy contract. In order to get your car charged you will book a slot for 100kWH of fast charge. Tough if you are late for your slot as the local infrastructure will only charge so many cars at a time. Same on arrival at a public charging point. Your car will slow down to arrive at the slot.
Then you will pay say £100 for the energy, being 75% duty...


Alternatively you will vote for politicians who let you keep buying petrol cars provided you stick to 50MPG or more efficient than an electric car...

 

I agree with all that’s been said. Ban all new cars tomorrow! Job done!

 

They dont teach even joined up writing. Boom boom !

Joined up thinking belongs to a kind of person who would not have done a degree that leads into politics.

They would have done something smarter with their lives.

 

I drive the 22 miles to work in my Bay because it was cheaper to get it insured than travelling by train (and its a lot quicker). I was pondering the infrastructure issue/public transport the other day whilst driving along a stretch of the M27 being turned into a smart motorway mainly to allow even more cars to use it, given the view on climate issues it seems odd that we are still spending to assist those using old technology, whilst that happens nothing will change.

 

Speed awareness course?
You weren't in your bay then!

 

A return of the pump attendant, but driving a huge charger unit, rather than manning a pump. That's what they'll have to do at people's workplaces, leave your car charger socket unlocked and they'll charge your car whilst your sat at your desk.

 

What do you mean...start...!

 

We have no public transport where we live so have to drive....or walk. Is driving electric any better for the environment or not..I don't think so. All the electric we will need will be provided by a polluting gas or coal fired power station ( wind power does not provide enough). Say I drive from my house to pick up my daughter 200miles away I can turn around and drive home again....in an electric car I can drive there and then how long do I have to wait before I can drive home again...they say the world is getting faster but in fact everything is slowing it down..put a round about here, traffic lights here, speed bumps here and now go somewhere stop for hours just so you can drive back.....Armageddon is here

 

I had a Electric outlander for a while , took 5 hrs to charge and would get me 26 miles and that’s if I didn’t put the heater on !


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Down hill foot to the floor

 

I don’t work for a distribution company but I do manage a private network and I’m aware that there’s absolute mega bucks involved in upgrading the network never mind generation! There’s also a mahoosive shortage of engineers and technical operatives ... it’s gonna be a challenge and I’m not sure our betters really understand the numbers involved in upgrading and replacing significant chunks of the distribution system to cope with not only the demand but incorporating the resilience needed as there’s also a need to move away from fossil fuels for heating etc. It’s all gonna go electric at some point not too far off and there will be competition between the need for energy for transport and the need for heating , lighting etc. As we all get appliances that are more efficient, improved and better insulated housing stock with efficient electric heating then that will be helpful but it’s not free and infrastructure has been overlooked and underfunded for a very long time.

Social change and new ways of working will be needed to even out the electrical demands for sure! An integrated plan to manage energy generation, storage and usage is feasible but I wouldn’t trust anyone in govt to plan for that. It’s all about the next 5 years and keeping your job at the next election. Long term planning.... well HS2 springs to mind. How long will that take and that’s not a big project by comparison.

 

As for generation! We’re just leaving the EU.... what’s the long term future of our interconnections with Europe that top up our grid! Expect a Chinese nuke station somewhere near you. Cos that’s not worrying is it!

 

They'll have to be a hell of a lot more efficient before they'll be any use out here.
My diesel Landcruiser is more economical and much more efficient and suitable for the job.

 

A huge proportion of people won’t own cars.

The next generation lease them right now, so your phone will share when and what for you need one but it won’t be yours to own...so they won’t be replacing everyone’s cars, there will be far fewer needed.

This is all new cars, they won’t immediately bin old ones....they'll make up-lost revenue by charging more for fossil fuels.

The great AI god will do all the work, so we’ll all get good at fortnite etc.


The Matrix was pretty prescient I’d say...

 

Reckon its worth us old school electricians dusting down our tool boxes then? Must be thousands of us that have moved out of the trade that could step back in?