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By Paul Homewood
Sheer madness!
MORE than half of all UK cars should be electric by 2028, according to the Government, as it looks to solidify plans for a Zero Emission Vehicle (ZEV) mandate.
Grant Shapps is looking to set legally binding targets to speed up the shift away from petrol and diesel, and towards the mass adoption of electric vehicles. In its new report, the Department for Transport proposed legally binding annual targets that car manufacturers will be forced to meet before 2035.
In less than eight years, the Government will ban the sales of new petrol and diesel vehicles in the UK.
Just five years later, a similar ban will be introduced to restrict sales of hybrid vehicles.
The proposed scheme would start in 2024, when manufacturers would have to sell all-electric cars, which account for 22 percent of their total sales.
The Government document added: “There is a level of uncertainty based on the form of wider policy measures and future demand, but this modelling assumes that by 2030 a minimum of 80 percent of all new UK car sales are zero emission.
“It assumes a 22 percent mandate in 2024 and 52 percent in 2028.
“Alongside ZEV uptake, it also assumes further efficiency improvements to non ZEVs.”
In 2030, the European Union expects approximately 46 percent of all new car sales to be ZEV across the EU.
The document stated that the UK is a leading ZEV market in Europe, so would expect to be above this average value.
The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders said that new rules “must encourage consumers to purchase, not just compel manufacturers to produce”.
SMMT chief executive Mike Hawes said: “The danger is that consumers will lack the incentive to purchase these new vehicles in the quantities needed, keeping their older, more polluting vehicles for even longer thereby undermining the carbon savings this regulation seeks to deliver.”
If this is not an admission that for most drivers EVs are absolutely useless, I don’t know what is!
It also raises the question of how these quotas will be enforced. After all, car manufacturers cannot force people to buy EVs. And we already know that huge discounts don’t make any difference, because the government has already tried them.
I have read rumours that manufacturers will be fined if they don’t hit the targets, which simply means that these will be added to the price of conventional cars, to the detriment of drivers. If that is the case, people will simply tend to buy imported cars instead, who presumably won’t be affected by the quota.
This whole business is an example of how we are all gradually losing our freedom of choice.
Last time I looked many houses in the UK are terrace houses with no off-street parking and most apartments do not have individual electrical outlets in their parking bays. How are the EVs going to be charged up? Are owners supposed to find a nearby charging station (good luck with that) and walk home from there and then back to pick it up later?
Lamp posts. Lamp posts with EV chargers.
Uber just paid for 700 on street chargers to be rolled out across 3 London boroghs.
Besides given the average weekly mileage of UK cars, most people will only need to charge a couple of times a week. and if there are chargers at commuter rail stations, supermarkets, gyms and some places of work, then that’s covered.
That is probably the most stupid and ridiculous post that I have ever seen on this site. I wonder about your ability to live independently without carers, quite frankly. Consider how many of the Boris bikes were lost or stolen since they were introduced and you’ll see that anything like that will get stripped down and vandalised in short order. Given how quickly cars batteries lose the total amount of power – any EV with a battery over a few months in age doing more than a quick 2 min trip to the shops will have to recharge a damn sight more often than twice a week. As to the first idea – are you mad. I live in a small side street of maybe 30 terraced houses with 30+ cars on it – we have exactly 3, count ’em 3, lamp posts for the entire street – your idea is absolutely bonkers; insanity of the worst kind.
griffffffff has a special talent for stupid and ridiculous.
A year ago I read that an electrical engineering association in the UK had sent a report to the Government pointing out that based on wind turbines to provide the electricity to recharge a fleet of half EV all of Scotland would need to be covered with wind turbines, with back up of course.
One of the obviously diversionary comments often posted by EV enthusiasts is how fast they accelerate from zero to whatever.
In Australia the Highway Patrol and other Police would not be impressed if an EV performed like that from traffic lights.
And how much energy does that performance drain from the batteries?
I recently read a US report about a new EV released there to rival Tesla S and offers a better range. The author was honest and advised that EVs are not best suited to highway driving over long distances because of energy usage increases as the speed increases.
Ask a builder tradesman and the other carpenters on a building site about electric tools and their need for many batteries on charge and charged to work a ten hour shift, each carpenter on site.
My builder son decided after testing on a project site to buy an internal combustion engine powered concrete saw after testing electric and how often battery changes were required.
And the fossil fuel engine model was much cheaper.
I will never buy an electric car. They are dangerous and useless.
Welcome to a new Luddite age. The economy will be destroyed by the force-feeding of the population with a technology that is unwanted and unfit for purpose. Britain is heading toward a total fiasco, collectively driving over the cliff of net-zero.
Even fully electric cars are not zero emission.
The vehicle emission most harmful to human health is vanadium dust from brakes:
https://viewpointvancouver.ca/2020/02/26/london-throat-why-brake-dust-is-bad-for-you/
E-cars are heavier than ICE cars due to the super-massive battery.
So in e-cars the most harmful vehicle emission, vanadium dust, increases due to the higher braking demands resulting from their heavy weight.
Except e-cars can use regenerative braking lessening the demand for conventional brakes.
Someone is determined to destroy the western world which became supreme through cheap fossil fuel energy. Unlike the mass production of cheap Ford and Volkswagen vehicles for the people, electric vehicles are expensive and unaffordable to most citizens.
From the article: “In less than eight years, the Government will ban the sales of new petrol and diesel vehicles in the UK.
Just five years later, a similar ban will be introduced to restrict sales of hybrid vehicles.”
Doubling down on stupid!
This is going to work out about as well as their transition to windmills and solar. They can’t supply enough electricity now to power their economy and warm their homes and now they want to increase that electrical demand.
Idiocracy in action.
And all because they stupidly and wrongly think CO2 needs to be regulated.
A less noted drawback: Making a nation’s existence dependent on one thing is always a bad idea.
You gotta love EV optimism when the UK imports 38.9% of its electricity now-
UK’s energy production fell to lowest level in 50 years last year (msn.com)
Rustle up some more woodchips to replace Russian gas for the boilers I suppose. Perhaps griff has some contacts in the woodchip sustainability game?
Transport in the UK will look like Cuba in the 2040’s – all vintage vehicles.
It seems there’s some sort of collaboration going on between the government and manufacturers to the detriment of consumers. If people are forced to buy EVs, the producers will be able to keep their vehicles overpriced. In addition, if the government offers incentives, those are tax dollars supporting those incentives, so the consumer is being bribed with his own money.
We had this battle between EVs and gas autos 120 years ago. EVs lost. Now governments want to dictate what consumers never wanted.
Time to stock up on good petrol and diesel cars, because they are going to double in price!