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Knee-jerk announcement from the Government that has not been through through and has many 'holes' as a policy.
The key phrase was no internal combustion engined vehicle, so Hybrid is likely to be were we're heading initially for 2040.
The infrastructure needs to be designed and implemented first but with fast moving technology that could be a challenge
It's 23 years and many, many Government's away so not worth loosing too much sleep over now......
Who knows what the boffins have up their sleeves...
Im pretty sure by 2040 the vast vast majority of small strimmer hedge trimmers and pedestrian mowers will be battery. Maybe even hybrid ride ons? I have heard of research for trucks and lorries that will be electricly powered but have an onboard diesel generator to charge the battery(as more efficient than an engine directly powering the wheels), possibly the same with vans?
I'm not losing any sleep over it as technology is quickly advancing and costs dropping. Already Volvo is committing to this in some form. We already have generators in some electric vehicles as "range extenders", and battery costs are going down, as can been seen by Tesla's new entry model.
I don't think the big stumbling blocks will be vehicular, but will be infrastructure - vehicle charging needs a serious beefing up of the electricity network in both overall and "last mile" capacity. This will take huge investment and time...someone will have to pay and quickly to get the ball rolling for it to be ready. How long does it take to build a power station???
Or, will someone come clean, open the vaults and bring out the efficient formulae for using water as fuel that has been surpressed ? Only joking (..... I think ...... 0)
Well,when you look at the kind of free energy concepts that Nikola Tesla was working on around a hundred years ago and how he was basically shut out by the establishment it certainly makes you wonder!
There will be some hydrogen powered vehicles, but the technology is a bit behind battery on this, so give that another decade or 2 on top of 2040. Again its the the infrastructure issues that are the hard part.
The British Gas announcement on electricity prices is a reaction to investment requirements, citing green energy taxes. I think also we'll see more pay per usage especially in towns and motorways.
At the end of the day, this is a good thing overall. What is hidden in the fossil fuel debate is the security costs to firm up our import supply chain on a global scale. Going electric diversifies this and puts us more in local control, with wind, solar, nuclear, hydro, tidal etc, with still some from coal, gas and oil.
at the moment we get some of our electric from France
on the local news tonight they are on about demolishing Eggborough power station and ferrybridge has shut although they are building a gas fired one next to it