The 2040 ban on petrol vehicles

[K2-K6]

Avgas from the local airport,  those little planes won't go far on a big chunky battery pack.

[Trigger]

Don't get me started

[K2-K6]

It's funny that they've published a plan to, I assume use electric vehicles, when right now they don't seem to have any cohesive plan to make the electricity!

[mike the bike]

I think they plan to go ahead with it when they invent nuclear fusion or antimatter warp drive.

[MrDavo]

Good luck with delivering absolutely everything without diesel trucks.

[royhall]

Good luck with delivering absolutely everything without diesel trucks.

It only covers cars and light commercial (apparently). Trucks are still allowed to pollute. Cant have the fat cats not getting the pigs to market can we.

[Rob62]

Apparently a vehicle with start-stop technology counts as a hybrid as far as the proposed legislation is concerned...... so i dont expect to see drastic changes overnight.... Electric vehicles are coming for sure but the car manufacturers need to solve things yet like batteries, there isn't enough cobalt in the world to satisfy the potential need for batteries 🤔

[paul G]

Not a cat in hells chance of this happening.
Who is going to build all the new power stations needed for this when we all plug our cars in every night.
If you live in London which all these fuckwits do who is going to build all the power points needed as most of the place is high rise.
Short rant but I could go on forever

[JamesH]

The issue won't be the input capacity of the grid. It'll be the local grid / sub-station infrastructure required to simultaneously fast-charge an electric vehicle fleet.

[Seabeowner]

Rob, not sure where you get the idea that start/stop is considered hybrid.
Also Scotland's regional govt has promised to stop sales by 2032, which is strange as we are still one country! But mainly it's a headline grabber and smokescreen to cover inaction on urban air pollution. We promise that some government in the future will do something drastic about it. But the ICE is certainly extremely inefficient and unsuitable for urban areas and expect bans in major cities within 10 years.