Diesel petrol and hybrid potentially banned from 2035

[ifindoubtflatout]

BBC report says
“Petrol and diesel cars were already set to be banned from sale in the UK from 2040, but now that ban is being brought forward to 2035. Some hybrid vehicles will also now be included on the banned list. “”

wonder if there will be exemptions for work vehicles ?? I can’t see how that would work if we all had electric.

I was resigned to buying a hybrid for my next car but if they are being phased out too probably won’t.

 

[Farma Parma]

The whole thing is a Massive CON trick !!
Better get things bought up so we can still use ENGINES for those still alive past 2035 of course.
I'll put money on it nothing will be changing in the developing countries who in fact pollute our planet 10 times worse that we are doing
and will be no different in 50years time, 2 stroke Engines belching smoke out.

Look at the Red diesel News on the BBC last night & them folks blatantly using it in there Cars

 

[GeorgeK]

I wouldn't worry, this is a prime example of 'kicking the can down the road'. Nothing will be done, nothing will change, the government is hoping that when the deadline comes round either things will have changed of their own accord or people will have forgotten about it.
Government pledges mean sweet FA, they never have any intention of honouring them!

 

[colhonk]

It cannot and will not happen. Not the ifrastructure to produce enough electric,plus the uk alone would need at least half of the worlds precious metals for the batteries ect, plus, the batteries are uncyleable for the near future. Is Boris going to store the used ones in his front room until whenever?

 

[BoltonDynamite]

This Government loves a good headline to make them look like they're taking action. Keeps them popular, you know?

In the end, they'll change as little as they can to make it look like they successfully took action.

 

[BoltonDynamite]

It cannot and will not happen. Not the ifrastructure to produce enough electric,plus the uk alone would need at least half of the worlds precious metals for the batteries ect, plus, the batteries are uncyleable for the near future. Is Boris going to store the used ones in his front room until whenever?

If I'm not mistaken, there's 32 million passenger cars in the UK (ignoring commercial vehicles), he'll need a hell of a front room haha! Like you say, won't happen. Some other Prime Minister's problem to say 'sorry we couldn't meet this target, but we tried *sad face*'

 

[Highland Mule]

The whole thing is a Massive CON trick !!
Better get things bought up so we can still use ENGINES for those still alive past 2035 of course.
I'll put money on it nothing will be changing in the developing countries who in fact pollute our planet 10 times worse that we are doing
and will be no different in 50years time, 2 stroke Engines belching smoke out.

Look at the Red diesel News on the BBC last night & them folks blatantly using it in there Cars

Agreed with the part I put in bold, but the rest of the sentence is completely wrong - developing countries have far lower pollution levels than developed.

 

[Highland Mule]

It cannot and will not happen. Not the ifrastructure to produce enough electric,plus the uk alone would need at least half of the worlds precious metals for the batteries ect, plus, the batteries are uncyleable for the near future. Is Boris going to store the used ones in his front room until whenever?

Agreed it won’t happen, but not for the reasons you cite (which are mostly wrong).

Energy availability would not be a problem - renewables will help, plus a far reduced demand from refineries.
Batteries don’t use “precious metals” - cobalt may be an issue but technologies already exist to avoid that
Battery recycling is already happening.

 

[Chae1]

How many more power stations are they going to need to power all these electric cars?

The child labour extracting materials for batteries in Zambia will need to do some overtime.

 

[Tomr10]

Already happening most manufacturers have stopped selling new diesel cars

 

[radar]

How is any Government going to replace the duty charged on fuel? Sorry for the pun but this amount fuels the economy!

 

[Gedd]

Hows that going to work for us out in the sticks not properly thought through I don't think

 

[M-J-G]

It will be fine, Boris knows what he's doing

 

[Gedd]

It will be fine, Boris knows what he's doing

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[teslacoils]

You just charge your car at home. We seem to manage ok doing 15k miles a year with no public chargers in an early model leaf.

 

[Yosemite Sam]

It’s all very well telling us we will have to have electric cars, but the biggest problem will be providing enough electricity to charge them all. It’s been mention we will need 3-5 new nuclear power stations or 7-10 coal fired ones, they will never get those built in that time, even without all the greens and climate protesters holding the job up.

 

[Stewart Setter]

This is one of the big cons with electric cars .. it passes the energy burden onto the power stations. So your nice electric car is powered by the energy from a coal powered station? Not to mention the carbon print of the component parts of the car all over the world... It's all a big con.

 

[steveR]

It’s all very well telling us we will have to have electric cars, but the biggest problem will be providing enough electricity to charge them all. It’s been mention we will need 3-5 new nuclear power stations or 7-10 coal fired ones, they will never get those built in that time, even without all the greens and climate protesters holding the job up.

And the Grid infrastructure hasn't a hope of coping either... As farmers we may be OK, shed roofs covered with panels feeding into our electric vehicles and machinery. Maybe!!

 

[Boomerang]

It’s all very well telling us we will have to have electric cars, but the biggest problem will be providing enough electricity to charge them all. It’s been mention we will need 3-5 new nuclear power stations or 7-10 coal fired ones, they will never get those built in that time, even without all the greens and climate protesters holding the job up.

best get the Chinese to run country, they would have a new power station built in no time .
it's all well and good going from internal combustion to electric , but the real need for change is how we generate power, conventional power generation isn't green , renewables can't provide enough , unless every house had it's own solar/wind generation system.
not just that do these new rules also apply to trucks ,tractors ,ships ,planes ? , can't see any electric only battery system providing enough juice to power a tractor at full power all day .
in 25 years time government may move goal posts again and tell us electric s old hat , the as yet to be invented new generation of power generation is the new electric .who knows when the next Einstein ,rudolf diesel wiil appear.

 

[M-J-G]

@Cowabunga any thoughts?