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Originally Posted by Damien
Many companies already announced the move to electric years before the government introduced this 2040 goal. Volvo had even said they've got an end-date for their petrol engines before 2030. Nissan, Toyota, Ford, Peugeot and BMW amongst others are all at various points in this transition. It's why as I said at the start of the thread that the 2040 announcement is rather unambitious.
Not to say it's imminent. The vast majority of cars sold are still petrol and will be so for the next few years but it seems electric is only going to go in one direction as it makes up more and more of those sales. The question is when will we get to 50%....
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Being relatively young I'm sure 2040 seems like a lifetime away for you but it really isn't much time to get stuff done and it's no good praying that there'll be some timely revolution in technology which will obviate the need for hugely costly national charging infrastructure to be put in place to keep all our vehicles on the move. Who's going to pay for that do you think and what effect will that have on the real cost to us of electric vehicles? Right now the national grid almost creaks when people put their kettles during popular TV events how much worse will it be when we're all trying to charge our vehicles? A lot's going to have to be done to prevent this whole thing from turning out very costly indeed, both in terms of cash and our freedom of movement.