[Updated] New petrol & diesel car sales banned from 2030
30-07-2017, 09:04
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Re: Petrol & diesel vehicles ban.
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but sadly they have not
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Technology progresses.
Today, you can do more on a smartphone than you could on a laptop 20 years ago (and it has a longer battery life), and it's a fraction of the size.
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30-07-2017, 09:06
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Re: Petrol & diesel vehicles ban.
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Technology progresses.
Today, you can do more on a smartphone than you could on a laptop 20 years ago (and it has a longer battery life), and it's a fraction of the size.
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but don't you miss the old petrol laptop
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30-07-2017, 09:07
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Re: Petrol & diesel vehicles ban.
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but don't you miss the old petrol laptop
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No, as lugging one around caused me to need shoulder (rotator cuff) surgery.
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30-07-2017, 15:46
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Re: Petrol & diesel vehicles ban.
It's interesting how the motor industry is going. Outright ownership today seems to have become unpopular with young people and the days when people pay for electric cars and bikes like mobile phones and Netflix aren't far away. Here's one take on it looking at it through the lens of self-driving vehicles be they cars or buses: https://www.bdo.co.uk/en-gb/insights...iption-service
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30-07-2017, 17:30
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Re: Petrol & diesel vehicles ban.
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Outright ownership today seems to have become unpopular with young people and the days when people pay for electric cars and bikes like mobile phones and Netflix aren't far away.
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Many older people do it this way as well Ive leased my cars for the last 15 years.
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30-07-2017, 18:13
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Many older people do it this way as well Ive leased my cars for the last 15 years.
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Yep.
I've leased my wife for the the last 31 years - initial deposit (the wedding), recurring monthly payments that went up every year, and apparently she's made arrangements for a final balloon payment from me before I'm traded in for a newer model...
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30-07-2017, 19:26
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Re: Petrol & diesel vehicles ban.
I predict the following
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31-07-2017, 07:54
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Re: Petrol & diesel vehicles ban.
FUELLED UP Three in four oppose Government’s ban on sale of new petrol and diesel cars from 2040
As little as four per cent of Brits plan to make their next car an electric vehicle
LIVID motorists turned on “tax grabbing” Michael Gove last night – as over 75 per cent opposed his 2040 car ban plan.
Nearly eight in ten Brits disagreed with the Environment Secretary’s move to outlaw sales of new petrol and diesel motors in 23 years’ time.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/413340...ars-from-2040/
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31-07-2017, 08:59
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Re: Petrol & diesel vehicles ban.
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FUELLED UP Three in four oppose Government’s ban on sale of new petrol and diesel cars from 2040
As little as four per cent of Brits plan to make their next car an electric vehicle
LIVID motorists turned on “tax grabbing” Michael Gove last night – as over 75 per cent opposed his 2040 car ban plan.
Nearly eight in ten Brits disagreed with the Environment Secretary’s move to outlaw sales of new petrol and diesel motors in 23 years’ time.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/413340...ars-from-2040/
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l don't often agree with what most of the public often say but on this l concur wholeheartedly.
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31-07-2017, 10:55
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Re: Petrol & diesel vehicles ban.
There is nothing yet to compare to petrol/diesel really? Some folk can use electric but many(most?) it would not be practical.
That said having a date for some phase out may focus minds on getting a working alternative. There is probably some little lab somewhere that has some great ideas but no-one is really interested (yet). There have been conspiracies for ages that alternatives have been "silenced" by the big oil concerns maybe bought out so that when fossil fuels are run down they can control the alternatives and keep making more profit in the newer, cleaner era of motoring.
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31-07-2017, 11:02
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Re: Petrol & diesel vehicles ban.
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FUELLED UP Three in four oppose Government’s ban on sale of new petrol and diesel cars from 2040
As little as four per cent of Brits plan to make their next car an electric vehicle
LIVID motorists turned on “tax grabbing” Michael Gove last night – as over 75 per cent opposed his 2040 car ban plan.
Nearly eight in ten Brits disagreed with the Environment Secretary’s move to outlaw sales of new petrol and diesel motors in 23 years’ time.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/413340...ars-from-2040/
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I wonder if these would have been the sort of people that claimed the air would be sucked out of your lungs once a train went over (was it) 20 mph?? or demanded someone walk in front of a car carrying a red flag??
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31-07-2017, 11:10
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Re: Petrol & diesel vehicles ban.
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I wonder if these would have been the sort of people that claimed the air would be sucked out of your lungs once a train went over (was it) 20 mph?? or demanded someone walk in front of a car carrying a red flag??
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they need a donor card if they walk in front of a car these days
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31-07-2017, 12:49
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31-07-2017, 13:03
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.... starting at only 35,000 USD
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(about £29,000)
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31-07-2017, 14:22
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Re: Petrol & diesel vehicles ban.
Let's face it, this all all subservience to EU Green ideas and plans, that only have to be ideas and plans to placate those demanding them.
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