Right up until 2030 when they push it back to 2045.
2030 would be an election year as were 2035 I don’t think they’d want to push it back on an election year.
Anyway by the time 2035 rolls around a lot of cars will probably be electric already and it’ll be less of an issue.
Depends on whether or not there is a snap election this year…
I’m fairly sure that even if there’s a snap election this year the election after that will be in 2030. Doing it early will just hand the new government a few extra months of power, it doesn’t calculate forward from the last election it’s just every 5 years regardless of what else is going on.
A parliament has a maximum term of 5 years. Any change to the date of the next election will have a direct impact on the latest date of the next election.
https://www.parliament.uk/about/how/elections-and-voting/general/
Not sure I agree. Drivers are a significant voting bloc in any election. It’ll always pay off to placate them.
But this is a future election that won’t occur for over a decade, and remember this will potentially have occurred after 10 years of left wing politics. Combine that with the fact that people are quite sensitive about environmental issues already, and that’s going to only increase over the next 11 years.
2030 is only six years away. Watch drivers lose all sensitivity about the environment when they are required to buy a more expensive car that doesn’t go as far as their old one and is way less convenient on long distances. I believe you’re a bit optimistic about people’s willingness to change. Everyone is all for saving the environment until they have to personally chip in.
Plus, you know, lobbies. Executives might lose money. Money!! Absolutely can’t have that.
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.
It probably doesn’t hold true for england, but I got a used bolt with 40k mi on it for $14k. Used EVs are out there.
Whoever thinks EVs are zero emission should be slapped with tires and brake dust.
Maintaining personal transportation infrastructure aint free too.
Nope, same goes with public transport. Trams are actually pretty bad in terms of particular matter
Whoops someone realised they’d likely still be in their position when 2030 comes rolling by and would have to make an effort
This is being pushed back from 2030, so it’s not good news. Just a delay on the law.
Guess we are just gonna have to pull a Cuba and maintain them for decades.
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.
