Volvo's claim is a bit of a cop out all their cars will have a measly 48v system, meaning it's a worse hybrid than what current manufactures do. So it's a bit of a headline grabbing pley by then.
Sale of petrol and diesel cars to be banned by 2040
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Lol, no, this is where the industry is heading. Charging is a stop gap and is completely unfeasible in the future.
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Well seeing as Hinkley Point C's first reactor isn't due until 2025, and is arguably only going to replace the ageing reactor and fossil fuel output we have today you may be waiting a while. Big fan of nuclear, but government rules, safety and cost really frustrate the process. I think we're looking medium term at renewables plus 'cleaner' fossil fuel burning (inverted commas definitely required) .
Please back this up. Seeing as your claim goes against everything everywhere.
I did say ideally, if we lived in an ideal world then Blair would never have cancelled the nuclear program, we would have built the pumped storage network and we would already have shut down the last fossil fuel plant.
Which of these seem like the one people/industry will go for?
Future A: Thousands of people sit around a motorway service station the size of Chester waiting for their car/coach/truck to finish recharging or their turn to hook up their car/coach/truck.
Future B: People drive in, their power cell is replaced and minutes later are back on their journey.
A, as that is allready being built and you only need it on long journeys. Research continues to produce faster recharging times, with the ccs chargers have a maximum 350kw rate, although no cars can use that rate at the moment.
There on the other hand is Zero plans to standaise anything be it government or industry led. There are zero plans to build swapping stations.
I have been waiting this, so that i can make a more informed decision wether to go petrol or diesel.
I have been saying this for years, we don't have the infrastructure to cope with the demand when everyone plugs in a car, as someone else has mention the grid is already strained just from the putting the kettle on at half time. They need to be planning and building new power stations to be able to cope with the demand in the future. From that you will have all the green lets save the earth people saying the power stations are killing the earth, thanks to our dependence of electricity. As much as i like renewable energy, i don't see it plugging the hole for the demand we will require.
But saying that it is 23 years away, maybe the government can get it act together by then i would hope.........
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All tho im against this as im a petrol head the Best thing about this is all the oil rich arabs will start to see thier fortunes dwindling and hopefully slowly fall apart
Altho what will we go to war over if everyone stops caring about oil so much due to lower demand
Altho what will we go to war over if everyone stops caring about oil so much due to lower demand
Compared to tidal they're pretty poor. You need it to be sunny. You need it to be windy. The tide is always moving.
The grid is not always strained. In fact 1 million ev's cars with timed charging over night, would actually improving the national grid,and that's with zero improvements to it. Currently there's just over 100,000 and that includes the tiny range plugins.I have been saying this for years, we don't have the infrastructure to cope with the demand when everyone plugs in a car, as someone else has mention the grid is already strained just from the putting the kettle on at half time. They need to planning and build new power stations to be able to cope with the demand in the future. From that you have all the green lets save the earth people saying the power stations are killing the earth, thanks to our dependence of electricity. As much as i like renewable energy, i don't see it plugging the hole for the demand we will require.
But saying that it is 23 years away, maybe the government can get it act together by then i would hope.........
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To be fair, what are all the petrol stations going to do in the future?
It's not completely implausible.
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Will still need oil.... It will just be at the plants generating electricity instead of petrol at the petrol station.
England is way behind on renewables....
On another note....
How many miles would a electric car do compared to an equal petrol car.
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Yep, Oil is used to make a lot of things including plastic.
I'm glad this has come in - it needs legislation to push things along - otherwise we will be taking the easy route and not the right one. With this happening in the UK and France and others will no doubt join - watch the car suppliers invest in new tech rather than hoping electric will take off and offering token electric cars. I'm looking forward to it - burning fossil fuels is old school
Shops/cafes while you charge and of course some will close down.
Battery swap will not happen for cars.
If the conspiracy theory that we really go to war over oil is true then lower demand would see oil wars increase not decrease, the point of the wars is allegedly to damage the supply keeping prices high relative to demand.
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I know oil is used for a multitude of things other than petrol/diseasel but demand will surely drop when theres no more new cars to use it