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New diesel and petrol vehicles to be banned from 2040 in UK

Cars and vans only. Trucks and coaches haven't yet seen much development in this field. Not sure how far away the electric truck is.....how to haul 40 tonnes across the continent with just electric is problematic.

Harry - from 2 years ago - BMW's 40-tonne electric truck hits public roads

Tesla will unveil electric lorry in September

Interesting skinny.....I didn't know they had already started. 62 mile range only at that time, so will be interesting to see how that aspect has developed.

A selection taken from some of the Readers' letters in todays Telegraph on the subject of the electrification of domestic and commercial vehicles by 2040 follow. Of course, by then we will have sussed out how to generate electricity 'for free' with Fusion Reactors - see HERE:

SIR – I hate to burst the bubble of the future being electric cars, but to charge a car in a reasonably short time would require quite a high amperage.

If my household has, say, three such cars, all used for the daily commute, the load on the normally designed wiring of my house would be more than it could accept. Circuit breakers would pop or wiring would melt.

So would that mean that by, say, 2030, all houses and the grid feeding them would have to be re-wired?

Richard Rhodes
Christchurch, Dorset

SIR – Richard Grant (Letters, July 19) is right to flag up the challenges of powering electric vehicles.

But that’s the least of our problems. Under the Climate Change Act, Britain is legally bound by 2050 to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 80 per cent from 1990 levels. This applies to all energy, not just electricity.

This legal obligation will mean building at least 50 new nuclear power stations and the electrification of almost all transport, heating, cooking and industry in the next 32 years.

David Pattison
Longworth, Oxfordshire

SIR – An item on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme on Monday proclaimed the benefits of an integrated “smart” electric power system with computers to control our domestic appliances to manage peak demand. A few minutes later, an item announced that many large British companies were vulnerable to computer hacking and had been the victims of cyber-attacks affecting their operations and data.

The second consideration removed any confidence in the first.

Paul Spare
Davenham, Cheshire

SIR – All the talk of widespread electric cars, encouraged by government policy, raises the question of the necessary provision of infrastructure.

How long before owners, unable to charge their cars because of a lack of power infrastructure, resort to buying diesel generators to fill the gap?

Ian Mackenzie
Preston, Lancashire

SIR – The answer to our future electric power problems is now said to be batteries. As the hole that green and renewable people dig for themselves gets deeper, the more crackpot are the “answers” they create for their problems.

Malcolm Parkin
Kinnesswood, Kinross

SIR – The notion that the direct-current low voltage generated by solar panels (or stored in future batteries) can be converted into alternating current (without considerable losses), then transformed up to mains voltage and dragged into the frequency and the phase it is connected to, so that it leads and not lags that phase at a zero power factor, is an attempt to reinvent laws of physics.

It's likely similar things were said when the internal combustion engine made it's appearance. I wonder if in 100 years fossil fuels will be banned completely? Aircraft running on solar power....road vehicles on electricity....ships on solar....trains (already) electric....central heating systems on dual solar/electric....etc..
Makes you wonder what will happen to all of the companies associated with the oil industry. Presumably diversify or go under.

Exec - it is inevitable.

A very interesting and useful discussion on R5 now about Electric cars, generation etc..

I was juss finkin....

Even if we can get a fusion reactor going and get limitless energy and free electricity....

Currently, the only way we have of making any use of it is via the National Grid and it won't be fit for purpose. It is going to cost an absolute fortune building a new Grid all over the world.

Hmmm?

I suppose one solution is to build individual and portable fusion reactors.

I bags Foggy for a red one.

By 2040....

2140

2140

Hmmm?

So....? What do we get then? Not that I'll be getting it, anyway, as I intend to opt for cryo-freezing until 2240.

kidA - 2140?

ExecLine,

Whatever the German cartel deem us fit to receive; probably some bodged solar battery and diesel hybrid - the case will say battery but will also contain a diesel plant. On being found out, they will claim it carbon neutral because the 50% battery cancels the 50% diesel.

skinny - a government plan, 2140 is being optimistic.

Cheers,
KidA

The government plan is for 2040.

What happens when a different government get in?

That will just determine which sh*t is used as fuel in post 441!

skinny,

The current plan is for 2040. :)

Cheers,
KidA

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