No More Petrol Cars from 2030

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Get with the changes man. Electric cars have far better performance and sports cars will soon be electric. They're also massive environmental benefits, especially not having exhaust fumes all around schools etc.

Travelling long distances is easy enough, you just have to stop every 2 hours, which you should do anyway.

Home charging port for me was free. You can lease a leaf for £240 a month.

Debateable. We currently struggle to power our homes and business without burning fossil fuels. But the point about air quality around schools etc is bang on.

One positive (arguably a negative) of capitalism is that once something becomes profitable the development goes off the scale. The push by governments around the world for electric cars is pushing development of renewables, which is a good thing. But unless we make a ground-breaking advancement in renewable tech soon, we are probably going to be worse off in short-term for the move to electric.

If we ever actually crack fusion, that will, literally, be the saviour of mankind.
 
Dunno what it's like up north but the amount of evs and charging points down here is crazy. The new sainsburys in charlton for example has 4 rows of charging points
Debateable. We currently struggle to power our homes and business without burning fossil fuels. But the point about air quality around schools etc is bang on.

One positive (arguably a negative) of capitalism is that once something becomes profitable the development goes off the scale. The push by governments around the world for electric cars is pushing development of renewables, which is a good thing. But unless we make a ground-breaking advancement in renewable tech soon, we are probably going to be worse off in short-term for the move to electric.

If we ever actually crack fusion, that will, literally, be the saviour of mankind.
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I live in semi detached with a garage and driveway and pod point did an assessment and decided they couldn't put a point in where we live. Can't see the infrastructure being anywhere near ready for everyone to drive electric cars in 10 years.
I live in semi detached with a garage and driveway and pod point did an assessment and decided they could install one, and did so in about an hour.

Why couldn't they do it for you?
 
Dunno what it's like up north but the amount of evs and charging points down here is crazy. The new sainsburys in charlton for example has 4 rows of charging points

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So much for levelling up then :lol:

You'd be lucky to find 4 chargers in a supermarket up here, never mind 4 rows of them
 
Dunno what it's like up north but the amount of evs and charging points down here is crazy. The new sainsburys in charlton for example has 4 rows of charging points

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We went 2 months without burning coal in the middle of a lockdown, kind of re-inforces my point.
 
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So much for levelling up then :lol:

You'd be lucky to find 4 chargers in a supermarket up here, never mind 4 rows of them
Political will. It's in policy that charging needs to be provided. It needs to be adhered to, if they didn't provide those spaces they wouldn't get planning permission. Nothing stopping any local authority in requesting the same.
 
then you can easily get 200 mile charge in 30 mins at supermaket - thats today - so will get better
It's far from easy. It's very rare to have quick chargers at supermarkets in the local area. I know Lidl and Aldi have committed to have them in their stores over the next few years but at the moment I'd say 90%+ are the slow 7kwh ones and over recent months more and more are not useable, not sure if Covid has had an impact on repairs?
There's only really Lidl that have quick chargers, almost all of the others are slow chargers
 
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So much for levelling up then :lol:

You'd be lucky to find 4 chargers in a supermarket up here, never mind 4 rows of them
You’d basically need chargers in every parking space in every public or work car park in the country before you could think about getting rid of petrol
 
It's far from easy. It's very rare to have quick chargers at supermarkets in the local area. I know Lidl and Aldi have committed to have them in their stores over the next few years but at the moment I'd say 90%+ are the slow 7kwh ones and over recent months more and more are not useable, not sure if Covid has had an impact on repairs?
There's only really Lidl that have quick chargers, almost all of the others are slow chargers
think you are confusing what has been implemented so far with what can/will be implemented

In the 80's we used to take the piss out of people with those big phone/suitcases
think you are confusing what has been implemented so far with what can/will be implemented

In the 80's we used to take the piss out of people with those big phone/suitcases

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You’d basically need chargers in every parking space in every public or work car park in the country before you could think about getting rid of petrol

Wouldn't need every space as load can charge at home. But probably need 25% of space to have chargers as a minimum.
Motorway services probably need to be pretty much every space.

Probably more common down south due to higher proportion who live in flats & can't charge at home
 

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