2030 - No new ICE cars to be sold

I doubt there will be enough electricity to run them all anyway. Note to self: buy candles.

Isn't the plan to actually ban the sale of vehicles that ONLY use diesel or petrol ie you'll still be able to buy a hybrid of some sort 🤷‍♂️ It's naïve to believe that there will be enough electric available to charge them and enough charging points for those that only have on street parking. Even those that do have their own drive, will there be enough electrical capacity to charge Mum's, Dad's & the kids cars over night for them all to get to work the following day?

you know you'd only need to buy four ..... 😉

I doubt that they will manage to install enough charging points in 9 years and 1 month as people will need them at home. Who will want to spend the time it takes at a charging point away from home waiting for a charge. Then there is the problem of terraced houses, do the leads go across the pavement making a trip hazard? Claims everywhere. Where do all the charging points go to avoid this, is it the kerbside? That will stop parking on the pavement. 

It is not as though we didn't know this day was coming. It's been talked about for the last twenty years? I appreciate that it means getting a lot of balls in the air to make it work but beyond that point there will be many advantages. The air will be cleaner for a start which should drastically reduce the risk of childhood Asthma and also help with breathing problems in old people. Because we will be producing our own clean energy we won't be as dependent of oil rich countries that have in the past pushed us into recession almost at the turn of a switch. So the risk of being held to ransom by either Russia or Saudi Arabia is diminished. 

The 2030 deadline only refers to the sale of new petrol and diesel cars, they will be around for years to come. Some think it will see the value of such cars fall through the floor but I wonder if the reality will be that prices will hold firm give the price of new EV's? During the transition period electric cars will develop and be as capable, if not more so, than diesel as a choice of towcar. Some might not like the fact that they will have automatic gearboxes. Let's embrace the future.

David

It could be that scarcity situation will see our ICE's go up in value.

So could the fuel & parts needed to keep them on the road🤷🏻‍♂️

Depends on how much they increase the tax on fuel and perhaps a higher rate for ICE if road pricing comes in. That might make any scrapage scheme look attractive. Especially as now we have the MH, the journeys we are doing in our cars are all well within the range of an EV. Wonder if they will let you scrap two ICE for one EV.😀

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At peak periods now in colder times of the year electricity is already on a knife edge and even with HMGs idea? about wind farms ,will not cope with the amount of add housing that is to be built?

We are to have over 12,000 new properties in this aras

With gas for domestic use being stopped?