Reply to post: Re: Not a chance !

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson pledges £12bn green economy package

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Re: Not a chance !

valid concerns. But to be contrary

1: Its not replace everything by Jan 1st 2030. Its no more petrol/diesel from 2030. Vehicle sales annually (ignoring Covid ) re about 3 million, there are 30 odd million cars on the road so it will be at least 2040 before the transition is ended. Plus you assume that it will all be electric - some might be synthetic fuels, hydrogen ammonia, fuel cells etc. Same for businesses. Its not replace everything by 2030, it's from 2030.

The issue of small houses having too many cars is sort of valid, but really why do we need those cars? So we can commute 50 miles to a box in an industrial park and commute back? Maybe we should reform where we work and live and not build dormitory towns? Work from home? Bicycle. Move work to where people live and vice versa. Reduce barriers to housing mobility?

Fast charging argument is only true if you constrain yourself to what we do today. Slow charging (again assuming no hybrids/fuel cells/hydrogen etc) is a pain if you are driving up and down motorways all day in your rep-mobile. But journeys of over 50 miles are a vanishingly small percentage of actual car use.Maybe we will have to get used to using trains a bit more?

and lawn mowers? Well lord snotty can reinvest in cart horses to pull his mower - he rest of us can manage fine with an electric one.

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