Petrol and diesel cars to be phased out within 20 years?

bigstraight6:

lancpudn:

mac12:

lancpudn:
More battery electric cars were sold in the year 2021 than the period from 2016-2020 combined “190,727 new battery-electric vehicles were registered, along with 114,554 plug-in hybrids, meaning 18.5% of all new cars registered in 2021 can be plugged in” airqualitynews.com/2022/01/06/2 … ev-uptake/

Could that be because they have stopped us buying petrol and diesel cars

Yep upcoming emission mandates like the ETS which will start in 18-24 months time that will bump the prices of petrol/diesel up & the panic scenes at petrol stations last year over “fuel shortages” Weren’t the google stats a week after that fuel shortage debacle around 1500% rise in BEV google searches :open_mouth: Sign of things to come in 5-10 years time?

Really? I’m sure that ‘1500%’ rise in BEV searches (if it exists) would not figure in the vast numbers of working people in this country dependant on AFFORDABLE used ICE vehicles to go to work and contribute to the economy not to mention how they use their vehicles to go shopping, eating out, leisure pursuits to name a few while all the time doing this contributing to the coffers with fuel duty and road fund licence.

How will this continue? How will the enormous drop in revenue be replaced? Care to offer an answer?!

It’s all there on the first pages of Google searches regards the enormous rise(1600%) in BEV searches on the following day after the fuel shortage became common knowledge on the 24th Sept 21. jvne.com/uk-fuel-shortage-leads … 18252.html

Since I’ve been reading this stuff about the decarbonisation of the UK transport system in 2015 the underlying message has always been this.

When the draft environmental bill came out they stated in 2019 that Quote …“we don’t want to swap 40 million ICE cars for 40 million big electric cars” :open_mouth:

Getting people out of private cars to lessen congestion has always been their next priority. The government is going to spend £billions on public transport infrastructure over the next ten years with bus, tram & train all integrated which will allow passengers to connect with all forms of public transport to get where ever they’re going & make it easier to pay through phone apps.
Greater Manchester transport authority will be one of the first to set this in motion greatermanchester-ca.gov.uk … t-network/