ban on uk cars

[genpk]

I see Borris has brought forward a ban on sales of all petrol, diesel and even hybrid cars to 2035.
This will be interesting to see!!

[steve-45]

Thats "NEW CARS", and as they have an expected life of approx 10 to 15 years ICE powered vehicles will be around for a long time yet.

[BoroRover]

With massive new infrastructure required, at least 25 million roadside charging points required, ( that's 4,000 a day if we start installing them today), more than a third of Britons commute by car, all arriving home after work, and plugging their cars in.

Another20 gigawatts required...that's double what we currently use.

The plan to rip put all gas powered central heating in domestic homes...and replace with electric...then the problem of being unable to source all the lithium needed for the electric cars that replace petrol/diesel cars... the need to use rare-earth metals such as neodymium to make magnets that make electric motors run, China controls 80% of the global market for rare-earth metals.

Can anyone see any problems in the future ???

[COLVERT]

Originally Posted by BoroRover

With massive new infrastructure required, at least 25 million roadside charging points required, ( that's 4,000 a day if we start installing them today), more than a third of Britons commute by car, all arriving home after work, and plugging their cars in.

Another20 gigawatts required...that's double what we currently use.

The plan to rip put all gas powered central heating in domestic homes...and replace with electric...then the problem of being unable to source all the lithium needed for the electric cars that replace petrol/diesel cars... the need to use rare-earth metals such as neodymium to make magnets that make electric motors run, China controls 80% of the global market for rare-earth metals.

Can anyone see any problems in the future ???

Charging posts won't be required as all the batteries will be plug in.

Drive into a garage and an automatic battery changer will unplug and plug in a new battery in less than a minute.

Discharged battery drops down and moves aside while a new battery raises up and plugs and locks in automatically.

As quick as filling up with petrol or diesel.

Garages, instead of having under ground tanks will just have a large storage shed with automatic turn around on the batteries.

[COLVERT]

Forgot.

Further to above post, battery charging will take place 24 hours a day with no sudden load on the countries electricity supplies.

Will take all those fuel tankers off the road as electricity can be supplied almost anywhere at instant notice. ( Running at 186,000 miles per second. )----

[bl52krz]

I have to laugh at all these predictions about elecktrickery cars.Just two question I ask myself. (1) where is all the electric going to come from? (2) How are they going to generate it.?Please tell me someone. No fairy stories please. Oh, and by the way, we already have to buy electrickery from the French. So that’s not going to stay the same price in the future is it. Just imagine when everyone goes away for the main holidays in July August. Best of luck you optimistic people. Happy motoring. Ha, ha.

[COLVERT]

Take a look at the progress this lot are making.---


Electric Cars, Solar Panels & Clean Energy Storage | Tesla

[COLVERT]

Petrol and diesel drivers have to find a garage to fill their tanks.---Drivers of electric cars will also have to do the same.
Ranges of the electric cars are improving quite rapidly plus there will be the added advantage of topping up at home. Something you can't do with petrol or diesel.---


The future is ELECTRIC.----------Shocking for some.---

[genpk]

I would be interested to see where and who will change my battery when traveling in our outback or going from one side of our country to the other
(3,000km ish)
Might be fine for small counties with population and towns close to each other but not sure if it will work over vast remote areas.
You will need an energy source that is mobile and transportable.
As for lithium, we have tons of the stuff here in australia and i believe we are just about start up a few rare earth mines as the Usa wants to reduce its dependence on china.

[myfirstrover]

Don't worry about it , most of us old codgers will be dead by then