Lol
Fiat to become electric only brand now before 2030 autocar.co.uk/car-news/elec … dwide-2030 
Get yer leccy cars before they shoot up in price before supply & demand kicks in, G7 says ICE vehicles will be history soon
Feels a bit like the experimental vaccination in some ways, they’re so bloody desperate to get you on board with the eletric car and just like the vaccine i for one ain’t going to be brow beaten cajoled forced blackmailed or bullied into having some battery car just to suit another set of self appointed experts and leaders who want to tell everyone (else) how to live their lives.
Basically the word is NO.
lancpudn:
Fiat to become electric only brand now before 2030 autocar.co.uk/car-news/elec … dwide-2030Get yer leccy cars before they shoot up in price before supply & demand kicks in, G7 says ICE vehicles will be history soon
The G7 who are having a lavish shindig fuelled by Lobster Thermidor and Bollinger as some of Cornwall’s homeless have been turfed out of their Hotel accommodation to accommodate the vast number of Police and security needed for this. I don’t give a fig what they say.
Until electric vehicles can at least match ICE I’m not remotely interested, too expensive, range issues (in reality use) woeful charging infrastructure, the time it takes to charge if you have to use said infrastructure, and the real Elephant in the room being battery life which is the most expensive component in these hateful things. Cars with a 10 year lifespan if you’re lucky, it’s like going back in time…
Caught 5he end of a piece on the one show tonight, company buying up old classics like Rollers and Bentleys, stripping them right back and refurbishing and transplanting electric motors into them. There was no mention of what was happening to the old petrol engines once removed.
Tyneside
tyneside:
Caught 5he end of a piece on the one show tonight, company buying up old classics like Rollers and Bentleys, stripping them right back and refurbishing and transplanting electric motors into them. There was no mention of what was happening to the old petrol engines once removed.Tyneside
“Nice” if you can afford it, But owners of Rollers and Bentleys probably will. Owners of bread and butter classics like my 1964 Ford Zodiac will not, so what will happen to these classics? I was reading an article in practical classics recently about an EV conversation for the original Mini and it was horrendously expensive to ditch the simple A series engine and gearbox for a golf cart running gear, who in their right mind would do this…
bigstraight6:
tyneside:
Caught 5he end of a piece on the one show tonight, company buying up old classics like Rollers and Bentleys, stripping them right back and refurbishing and transplanting electric motors into them. There was no mention of what was happening to the old petrol engines once removed.Tyneside
“Nice” if you can afford it, But owners of Rollers and Bentleys probably will. Owners of bread and butter classics like my 1964 Ford Zodiac will not, so what will happen to these classics? I was reading an article in practical classics recently about an EV conversation for the original Mini and it was horrendously expensive to ditch the simple A series engine and gearbox for a golf cart running gear, who in their right mind would do this…
Talking about Bentley! Jaguar have just announced they will going up market with their prices for their BEV cars to Bentley luxury levels todaynewspost.com/auto-news/jag … et-luxury/
Audi have just announced it will phase out production of its last internal combustion engines (ICE) by 2033, with all new cars being all electric from 2026. todaynewspost.com/auto-news/jag … et-luxury/
ICE vehicles will be gone well before 2030 at this rate. 
lancpudn:
bigstraight6:
tyneside:
Caught 5he end of a piece on the one show tonight, company buying up old classics like Rollers and Bentleys, stripping them right back and refurbishing and transplanting electric motors into them. There was no mention of what was happening to the old petrol engines once removed.Tyneside
“Nice” if you can afford it, But owners of Rollers and Bentleys probably will. Owners of bread and butter classics like my 1964 Ford Zodiac will not, so what will happen to these classics? I was reading an article in practical classics recently about an EV conversation for the original Mini and it was horrendously expensive to ditch the simple A series engine and gearbox for a golf cart running gear, who in their right mind would do this…
Talking about Bentley! Jaguar have just announced they will going up market with their prices for their BEV cars to Bentley luxury levels
Audi have just announced it will phase out production of its last internal combustion engines (ICE) by 2033, with all new cars being all electric from 2026. todaynewspost.com/auto-news/jag … et-luxury/
ICE vehicles will be gone well before 2030 at this rate.
Blimey! If the IPPR get their way they want the ban on new ICE vehicles brought forward from 2030 to 2022 for the public sector & 2025 for large commercial fleets fleetnews.co.uk/news/latest … think-tank
lancpudn:
lancpudn:
bigstraight6:
tyneside:
Caught 5he end of a piece on the one show tonight, company buying up old classics like Rollers and Bentleys, stripping them right back and refurbishing and transplanting electric motors into them. There was no mention of what was happening to the old petrol engines once removed.Tyneside
“Nice” if you can afford it, But owners of Rollers and Bentleys probably will. Owners of bread and butter classics like my 1964 Ford Zodiac will not, so what will happen to these classics? I was reading an article in practical classics recently about an EV conversation for the original Mini and it was horrendously expensive to ditch the simple A series engine and gearbox for a golf cart running gear, who in their right mind would do this…
Talking about Bentley! Jaguar have just announced they will going up market with their prices for their BEV cars to Bentley luxury levels
Audi have just announced it will phase out production of its last internal combustion engines (ICE) by 2033, with all new cars being all electric from 2026. todaynewspost.com/auto-news/jag … et-luxury/
ICE vehicles will be gone well before 2030 at this rate.
Blimey! If the IPPR get their way they want the ban on new ICE vehicles brought forward from 2030 to 2022 for the public sector & 2025 for large commercial fleets
And who the ■■■■ are the IPPR, let alone whoever they are ‘getting their way’. I read the first paragraph with the glaringly obviously spelling mistake and in didn’t get any better after with eye watering amounts of money being spent on vanity projects like cycle lanes and public transport that in reality hardly anyone will want to use.
bigstraight6:
tyneside:
Caught 5he end of a piece on the one show tonight, company buying up old classics like Rollers and Bentleys, stripping them right back and refurbishing and transplanting electric motors into them. There was no mention of what was happening to the old petrol engines once removed.Tyneside
“Nice” if you can afford it, But owners of Rollers and Bentleys probably will. Owners of bread and butter classics like my 1964 Ford Zodiac will not, so what will happen to these classics? I was reading an article in practical classics recently about an EV conversation for the original Mini and it was horrendously expensive to ditch the simple A series engine and gearbox for a golf cart running gear, who in their right mind would do this…
It looks like trouble on the horizon for classic/modern classic cars with car tax changes 
express.co.uk/life-style/ca … ic-vehicle
lancpudn:
bigstraight6:
tyneside:
Caught 5he end of a piece on the one show tonight, company buying up old classics like Rollers and Bentleys, stripping them right back and refurbishing and transplanting electric motors into them. There was no mention of what was happening to the old petrol engines once removed.Tyneside
“Nice” if you can afford it, But owners of Rollers and Bentleys probably will. Owners of bread and butter classics like my 1964 Ford Zodiac will not, so what will happen to these classics? I was reading an article in practical classics recently about an EV conversation for the original Mini and it was horrendously expensive to ditch the simple A series engine and gearbox for a golf cart running gear, who in their right mind would do this…
It looks like trouble on the horizon for classic/modern classic cars with car tax changes
I think the trouble on the horizon will be the increasing number of middle class and well off mugs buying into new EV’s who will be clobbered with new taxes on vehicle usage as this is apparently the future and where all this tax can be generated, not really from a small number of lightly used classics…