Eighty percent of new cars and 70 percent of new vans sold in Great Britain must be zero emission by 2030, increasing to 100 percent by 2035
As usual the headline doesn’t give the full story.
New cars are ludicrously expensive, especially EVs.
The most I can afford to spend on a car is maybe £14K, and that’s under the proviso that about £4K of that is my own money and the rest is a loan to be paid off over about 6 or 7 years.
So yeah, I’m going secondhand ICE with about 50K miles on the clock and praying it doesn’t die before the loan is paid off (and preferably longer still so I can save a bit more towards the next one).
I’m all for EVs, but they’ve got to bring the price down, and they’ve got to get the batteries to last long enough for the secondhand market to be viable.
Battery prices per kWh dropped 87% from 2010 to 2020. It’s likely to be around the same over the next decade–there’s tons of money pouring into research, and we’re far from theoretical limits. This is not going to be a problem by 2030.
I bought my 2yo BMW i3 EV in 2019 for £18k. Granted, they weren’t as popular back then, but cheaper second hand EVs do exist. You just can’t go for the big SUV types.
Just hit 60k miles with my only issue being a broken suspension mount. Damn potholes.
Most people can’t afford to buy electric cars, so… Either they become cheaper with time (they should) or less people will be able to drive a car…
I’m in the market now looking for cars and I was shocked by how expensive the electric ones are in comparison to hybrids or fuel driven ones.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
All new cars and vans bought in the UK must be zero emission by 2035, according to the latest legal mandate updated this week.
The government says this is giving consumers more time to make the switch and deal with the UK’s charging infrastructure.
While the government points to statistics indicating a 41 percent increase in zero-emission vehicles registered for the first time – note, the vast majority of newly registered vehicles still remain conventionally powered – charging infrastructure is an altogether different story.
According to research from RAC, a local roadside assistance business, the government has failed to meet its target of having six or more rapid or ultra-rapid electric vehicle chargers at every motorway service area in England.
EV owners are faced with a bewildering array of charging options, from using a UK three-pin plug through various types and speeds up to the latest and greatest from Tesla.
Finally, the government’s plans also fail to tackle that other challenge faced by EV drivers: finding a public charge point that actually works.
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Guess we are just gonna have to pull a Cuba and maintain them for decades.
