2030 - No new ICE cars to be sold

Posted on 20/11/2020 08:29 by

Cuba has managed to keep American  cars on the road for fifty years without makers spares.

Posted on 19/11/2020 21:28 by DavidKlyne

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

Posted on 20/11/2020 08:34 by JVB66

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?