Re: Electric cars by 2030
Banning petrol and diesel cars in ten years' time is absolutely ridiculous for several different reasons. I'm not stating anything new here. These are all things that have been widely discussed before.
Firstly, where is the generating infrastructure to provide all the necessary additional electricity? How many nuclear power stations can we build in ten years, and don't talk to me about windmills!
Then there is the little problem of where many car owners, perhaps the majority, will charge their cars overnight. It's OK if you have your own garage or at least a drive, but what about all those people living in terraced houses or multi-storey flats who presently leave their cars on the roadside. Will they be able to run charging cables across the pavement to their cars, hoping that no-one trips over them or nicks them?
The government have a pie in the sky idea of saving the planet by banning IC engines, but surely that would include those biggest polluters of all, HGVs. I wonder just how far they would travel on a single charge and that would be exacerbated by the far heavier loads that they carry. Many of these travel the length and breadth of the country - on one charge?
I could go on (as I'm sure you all know well enough), but that's enough for this post. I'm sure others will add several other reasons why this half-baked idea will not work, certainly not in ten years' time.