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Message posted by Colin2126/10/2021 at 12:01pm
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A lot will be down to money. There are a lot of variables. Many of those who would like a BEV cannot afford one, and many of those who could afford one would have nowhere to charge it at home. Flat dwellers, those with only on-street parking etc, and that applies to a lot of people who live in urban areas. I will have to stick to my diesel for as long as I possibly can, even though I could easily use a BEV for most of my day to day driving and could easily charge one at home, simply because there is no way I could afford one which would be suitable for me. I am by no means alone, in fact there are probably many hundreds of thousands in a similar position, and many of them are essential workers in low-paid jobs. If I had to, being retired I could do without my car, but those essential workers couldn't.
I don't get why all the attention is focused on cars when in my opinion, cars are the least of the problems anyway. What about all the heavy plant, HGVs, ships, and diesel trains? We are still building non-electrified lines, and quite a bit of the existing rail network isn't electrified either. Freight trains mainly use diesel locos because even though a lot of their intended route is electrified, there is a section somewhere on that route that isn't. When the rail network was entirely BR owned, they could have locos that could be swapped (electric for diesel) en-route, but now with all the different companies that isn't practical so they use diesel all the way as it can go anywhere. The problem is far more complex than simply swapping petrol and diesel cars for BEVs. That is only the very tip of the iceberg.
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Message posted by dimbles28/10/2021 at 1:10pm
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Quote: Originally posted by saxo1 on 28/10/2021
Just over 3/4 of road traffic over the last few years were cars and taxis,if the pollution from them was eradicated it would contribute significantly to meeting the target.
Cars may appear to be the easy option but compared to commercial delivery vehicles they are least essential.
Transport is now the largest sector for UK greenhouse gas emissions
(27%), of which road transport accounts for over 90%.
Rome wasn't built in a day!
saxo1
According to most if not all of the climate information,that I have seen ,The UK adds less than one per cent of CO2 released into the atmosphere its so small that its insignificant in the scheme of things. What happens in the UK will not matter one jot to the world. On a more positive note a large part of the UK is in the process of being returned to nature, With the re introduction of species such as beaver,bison boar,barn door eagles, wolves are also being considered along with others, I am pleased to say that I did contribute by working on the reforrestation along the A38 , with large tracts of land being returned to forrest.
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Topic: Are electric cars the future
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