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Originally Posted by The Thong
And I completely agree. As I said in an earlier, a more linear approach should have been taken. There’s no way on this earth you’d realistically install a reliable infrastructure in the original 2030 cut off date and 2035 is pushing it. All this self driving electric car dream has gone quiet too. Far too many blue sky promises to try and grab votes. All they’ve managed to do is turn people off the idea.
@andy_g, I agree too. Milk delivery vehicles (they not floats as we remember them) should be electric as should be any round robin motors hat bobble around the locality. Some of those Smokey old Merc’s and Transits are a bigger contributor to localised pollution. If you could just cut back on smokey old heaps that deliver pizzas, parcels etc etc, that would be a start. £50k delivery van? Really? Very very few places to get it fixed and so on… it’ll never happen mate. Until some level of sensibility is achieved, it’ll never gain traction.
If you could design a battery that took 15 mins to charge and give you a sensible range, they’d sell like hot cakes. Until such a time lands, nothing will happen.
TT
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I think 2035 is a pipe dream too. Given that manufacturers are stopping producing EV's due to declining sales and spiraling production costs, its going to take a drastic move in the market for people to actually see that EV is the way forward. What needs to happen for that to take place is EV's need to be more affordable, range has to improve and infrastructure needs major investment.
If there's not enough fuel stations, ICE cars are no good - The same applies to EV's. If there's not enough places to charge them (which there isn't) and the range isn't good enough, plus people can't afford to buy them in the first place... it doesn't take a genius to work out the real issues. Government's are pushing the green agenda, but people ain't buying it.
I simply cannot see how this country will be ready for EV's by 2035, which is when the sale of new petrol and diesel's are banned. Yes, you'll still be able to go out and buy a
used diesel or petrol in 2035 according to Sunak. I think that's a bit of a hint that the change from ICE to EV's by 2035 is a pipe dream and he knows it.
I think 2035 just isn't enough time, regardless of what Sunak says. He won't care, he'll be out of office long before then anyway. In the meantime, more manufacturers will stop making EV's. They will produce what sells and what makes them money, otherwise they go out of business.
There's a future for electric, but its 20-25 years down the line minimum in my opinion. Although, maybe there isn't a future for it. Maybe hydrogen is the way forward and EV's will be a thing of the past. Only time will tell.
Trump wants to halt the EV push. If he wins the election and is actually successful in the rollback, the world will follow. Then 2035 is definitely a pipe dream.