2030 - No new ICE cars to be sold

NutsyH replied on 19/11/2020 10:56

Posted on 19/11/2020 10:56

What is the Club's position on this announcement?

It sounds the death knell for towing anything like a decent size caravan unless reasonably priced electric cars capable of towing over 200 miles without recharge suddenly appear, and the recharging infrastructure expands rapidly. Given the incompetence of most politicians that is unlikely to happen.

Or do we think this is just another of Bojo's announcements that will quietly be forgotten when it becomes clear that there is no chance of this happening by 2030?

Perhaps the Club could enlighten us on whether it is engaging with the Government, as it is abundantly clear that no thought has been given to this issue by the Politicos.

Rocky 2 buckets replied on 23/11/2020 11:58

Posted on 23/11/2020 11:41 by Takethedogalong

Our time will come Rocky. Where else will they choose to locate the ugly recycling plants............👍 under the guise of “job opportunities” of course. 😉 

Posted on 23/11/2020 11:58

Hyde park👍🏻

replied on 23/11/2020 13:10

Posted on 23/11/2020 11:50 by JVB66

t is just what i have posted several times ,with information from a neighbour engineer with national grid ,,he did also say the the massive outage last year in North London was a sign of things to come with the huge increases in power consumption at peak times,without what the greenies  wantsurprised 

Posted on 23/11/2020 13:10

I think that the plan is to use smart chargers at home that don't operate during peak usage times.

EmilysDad replied on 23/11/2020 13:23

Posted on 23/11/2020 13:10 by

I think that the plan is to use smart chargers at home that don't operate during peak usage times.

Posted on 23/11/2020 13:23

and you are the last  to plug in and at the end of the queue for your bucket of electric .... in the morning your car battery is still flat. No idea about your street, but at the week end when most people are at home, there are hundreds of cars around & about locally to me - there are 5 cars at our house alone. If they all needed just an hour on charge, it'll take a very long time to charge them all .... assuming there is the electrical capacity.

replied on 23/11/2020 13:49

Posted on 23/11/2020 13:49

Very unlikely to affect me as long as there are no power outages and I need to buy a generator wink

 

Rocky 2 buckets replied on 23/11/2020 14:42

Posted on 23/11/2020 12:01 by JVB66

You would need a more stable sub soil firstundecided

Posted on 23/11/2020 14:42

Don’t tell me-someone in your family has a degree in Soilology👍🏻

Rocky 2 buckets replied on 23/11/2020 14:47

Posted on 23/11/2020 13:23 by EmilysDad

and you are the last  to plug in and at the end of the queue for your bucket of electric .... in the morning your car battery is still flat. No idea about your street, but at the week end when most people are at home, there are hundreds of cars around & about locally to me - there are 5 cars at our house alone. If they all needed just an hour on charge, it'll take a very long time to charge them all .... assuming there is the electrical capacity.

Posted on 23/11/2020 14:47

There’s a leaked document online(tappingnosewithindexfingerconspiritoriallyemoji) that suggest if tarquin from Sinclair,Thomas & Jones associates, London doesn’t have enough electric for his coffee machine Derbyshire will be unplugged from the Grid. Problem solved👍🏻

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