Caporegime
You realise it's just the sale of NEW cars right? ICE cars won't just disappear for a very long time.
You realise it's just the sale of NEW cars right? ICE cars won't just disappear for a very long time.
I wouldn't be surprised if the tax on fuel goes up though as an incentive to change over, plus I doubt whatever system they bring in to replace the VED bands when too many cars are exempt from the current emissions based pricing will be all that friendly on combustion engines.
Still it took 12 years or so for leaded petrol to be banned so hopefully petrol cars will hang around for a while to come.
You realise it's just the sale of NEW cars right? ICE cars won't just disappear for a very long time.
Yes I understand that and we'll have ICE cars for a long while, but I'm thinking about new cars, HGVs motorhomes etc.
Also the is ban is for new cars in the UK but no mention of buying overseas and bringing them over?
No mention of making your own either. Kit cars and low volume production cars already have exceptions for things.
There will probably end up being loads of loopholes. Usually is with this kind of thing.
Exactly, and what would constitute as 'building' your own car etc. Good luck to whoever has the job for getting this all sorted, 14 years 9 months to go!
I can imagine the opinion towards ICE cars turning quite hostile though.
I can’t imagine there will be many ICE cars being made by that point, let alone that anyone would want one? How many people want VHS players or ‘dumb’ mobile phones nowadays?
I can’t imagine there will be many ICE cars being made by that point, let alone that anyone would want one? How many people want VHS players or ‘dumb’ mobile phones nowadays?
That's a bad comparison. ICEs are fun and sound good. VHS and old mobiles don't do anything that modern tech doesn't do significantly better.
For anyone who enjoys driving for the sake of it, older cars have a lot of appeal. I think the sweet spot was probably around 10-15 years ago, before manual gearboxes and NA engines became a rarity (although there have been some great turbo cars over the years, of course).
One of the problems here is that everybody seems to be thinking in terms of people who are wanting (Able) to buy new cars.
There are very large numbers of people who spend their whole lives buying 15 year old cars for £500 and running them for another couple of years.
ICE cars are fine for this sort of thing. I doubt if EV's will be.
Most people do not buy new, Most people do not even buy "Second Hand"
How is the EV revolution going to provide for them?
I wouldn't say there are "very large" numbers of people buying £500 cars. EVs are already down to £5k on the used market, and that's with a very limited supply of new cars produced, very early in the days of the technology. They will eventually get down to the sub £2k/£1k level.
Obviously the combustion engine is going to be on the roads for a long time, but it will get gradually supplanted even on the used market as the years go by.