The proposed ban on the sale of new petrol/diesel cars in 2030.

[Normb666]

This "let's go electric to save the planet" is all very noble, but the cars themselves have gotta get much much much much cheaper!! Great if you've got the money, but you can't preach at the masses and try and force them to buy something they can't afford....or walk or whatever. Yeah, right. This is the 21st century, people are SUPPOSED to have personal mobility solutions, not be told to go back to the horse and cart or walk or ride a bicycle! Jeez.

the other thing that makes me uncomfortable with BEVs is the weight. I simply don't like the idea of carting round an extra half ton of batteries. All the extra energy to do so (even if, at the moment, it's cheaper than petrol), and the knock-on effects on bigger tyres, brakes, bushes, and the pollution you get from particles from those as they wear...it's all a lot more complicated than "buy an electric car, be green". As I said in my previous post, I'm cynical. I don't believe what I'm told simply on face value....

[NoCorseChris]

All good points Norm, part of the problem is simply an extension of the trend for ever bigger cars anyway. There’s no problem making compact relatively light BEV but people seem to insist on driving tanks. Another is an insistence on having a large range. The stats support the position that the average journey is 20 miles, so why does everyone demand a range of at least 10 times that? Mostly it’s just mindset and habit, and yes, I appreciate it’s the hardest thing to change.

Price of BEV vs ICE, well, that’s getting better too. Not everyone can afford a £100k Tesla S but then not everyone can afford an Aston either. There are already a number of relatively cheap BEVs on the market. Not as cheap as the cheapest ICE yet for sure, but getting there and it’ll only get better as more manufacturers get onboard. VW are in now. Yes, they have a serious PR problem to solve and no doubt this will help them, but they aren’t alone in seeing the writing on the wall, whether it's based on science or dogma matters not in the end, it’s policy now.