A ban on new petrol, diesel and hybrid cars
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do you mean in place of the current car tax or additionally to it?
you could make a nominal charge maybe payable to the local council for road upkeep etc , but have you thought of where the government will get the tax revenue currently collected on petrol/diesel when we have gone electric, no doubt increase the price of electricity
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Apparently they can break promises as Mr Johnson has proved. I believe he was taken to court & it was thrown out🤷🏻♂️. Manifestos mean nothing🙄☹️
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Good gracious, I've met some very switched on younger adults, many who never went to uni or did a degree, some who ignored the 'advice' of older generations and have done particularly well for themselves and others.
This whole topic, the OP, is long term and needs fresh, innovative thought. Yes, we should learn from the past, often probably how not to do things.
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How many outlets and or charging stations are there to be? there are 180 mostly terraced houses in our road alone .,and the majority have at least one car and several have 4 or more
The majority have to park with one side wheels on the now very damaged grass verges as if parked with all wheels on the road there would not be enough width for other traffic to get by
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so local councils would pay for motorways? And a nominal charge would cover 2000+ miles of motorways
I have not thought about as when that happens I doubt I will care either way, but again if you think the current system is unfair then increasing electricity prices for all to pay for those that drive appears equally unfair?
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No difference to metered Electric, you take responsibility for your own actions. The polluters pay more as in the more you use the more you pay whichever fuel it is👍🏻
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There is an article in today's Telegraph that reports a study carried out on the plug in hybrid variety (515 over 6 months) Returned figures 2.5 to 3 times worse in real world driving than the official ones. So only 42 mpg as against 137 mpg for BMW. Other manufactures returned similar figures. In fact as they were often driven with the battery depleted they returned worse figures than the corresponding non hybrid, due to their extra weight. One concern in the case of those used by company drivers, is that they might not bother to fill the battery at home, preferring to put fuel in on the company card.
Perhaps explains why they are being treated in the same way as pure ICE vehicles.
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Nah, when everybody leaves work the charging stations will be too busy. You go online and book a slot. The NPR cameras will let you charge provided you arrive at the right time. You will pay by the minute for parking in your slot whether you use the full time that you paid for or not. After your allocated time slot power delivery will stop.
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Help!!! i am stuck in traffic, my battery is running low and i cant get to my charging point on time,
great idea and i am sure there are thousands of people out there doing their own blue sky thinking , but i cant help thinking in trying to save the planet we will only make things worse.0 -
I think you are probably right David. Transported to a site once and left there, I think the club are already doing this, Experience Freedom, they call it!
It would appear that this is one of their solutions to the dilemma we face regarding removal of ICE cars. Future proofing!
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That would take millions of cars/vans off the roads then,and a big hole in the chancellors income,?
might help with getting pitches on sites as well
It was on the news this morning that the government is going to put £150 million pounds into bus services with Cornwall getting a chunk to get better rural services and £50 million to a city (to be anounced) to convert to all electric bus services in the city,but it will need ICE vehicles for out of city and hilly areas as batt power is not feasable for those routes
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That would take millions of cars/vans off the roads then,and a big hole in the chancellors income,?
Could help stop traffic jams, lower pollution levels, get on yer bike more, fitness levels go up, less trips to the Doctor, and yes more choice in pitches
. It's time to say "sorry but you do not qualify for vehicle ownership", to stop playing with kid gloves and be more authoritarian 
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Recent years, history! Things are moving, technologies evolving and decisions being made. Faster than some wish, not fast enough for others but all in the right direction.
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We were, at that point, talking about what those living in terraced property where you often have to take whatever space is left would do. I said a charging station.
But I wonder what call there is at present for Dedicated Electric Recovery rather than a low loader.
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