Re: An interesting item about electric vehicles
Originally Posted by
Baz46
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When I read other items about banning petrol and diesels it really does make me wonder how on earth the country is going to function. The link below to the RAC on this is just one of many, it makes worrying reading when the proposals are only around ten to fifteen years' away:
https://www.rac.co.uk/drive/news/mot...anned-by-2030/
I have long been convinced that our politicians live in Cloud Cuckoo Land, and this appears to confirm it.
So in eleven years electric cars will be compulsory. We shall not be allowed to drive our petrol cars and don't even mention diesel. Charging points will appear every few feet along the sides of all roads where the residents have no drives, and all motorway service stations will boast free electric charging facilities.
Buses and locomotives will all use electricity, of course, and HGVs will each include an additional trailer on the back to contain all the batteries needed to enable them to keep going as far as the next specially-adapted lorry park where they can be recharged overnight. Free accommodation for the drivers provided, of course.
I suppose they are assured that by 2030 we shall have covered our entire land with windmills and solar panels, that the country will have become eternally windy, and that the sun will shine for 24 hours a day with clear skies.
Then, of course, in another five years I fully expect that they will have extended their demands to our relying on electric aircraft too.
Needless to say, India, China and the rest of the world (with the exception of the EU Empire) will continue to use petrol, diesel and other fossil fuels, but at least we can smugly hold up our heads and boast that we are saving the planet.