Petrol and Diesel Cars to be Banned by 2040

We live in 'interesting' times it seems. Currently the government plan, and it is just that, a plan, is an aspirational one, please pardon the pun, to tackle air pollution in the future. The plan does not advocate an outright and future total ban on either deisel or petrol engines but just those worst polluting ones. However it does talk of a possible ban on all from the worst pollution effected areas.

The notion that this will speed up electric vehicle research is real it seems. The car manufacturers today are certainly driven by those potential markets in India and particularly China whose governments also are currently acting proactively in the area of pollution reduction.

As for caravans, tow vehicles and motorhome in 20 years hence, who knows? Maybe that research will determine direction/fate to a very large degree, 

A thread on this subject was started a week or so ago <<HERE>>

I'll be well into my nineties by then. My environmental impact will more likely be a problem for the crematorium rather than any vehicle I might own.

In light of all the confusion this announcement has caused, Lunar have released picture of their 2039 single & twin axle models

 Coachman, however have decided they will take a different approach  

I suspect the engineers and scientists will step up to the job and crack the vehicle issues. 

Where I see huge problems is in developing the infrastructure to generate and distribute the amounts of electrical energy needed to take over that obtained from the fossil fuels, by 2040.

Not so much the technical ones, but getting governments and developers to put up front the funds, and communities to accept the building of the facilities to achieve those generation and distribution tasks. 

We have talked for over 23 years about building a few nuclear power plants, this tasks is way bigger than that.

When polution is mentioned , that of aircraft is not mentioned even with the tons of fossil fuel burnt on every flight 

I agree, tons of pollution from aircraft and more too from shipping and some trains. However, they are measuring pollution at street level, and at street level its the wheeled vehicles who's concentration of exhausts are aimed directly at pedestrians and workers. In Victorian times is was the huge amount of horses waste that was the problem, so not that dissimilar. Its the sheer concentration of people and vehicles into a few small areas of our land that is the underlying issue.

I hope planes are not included, this service is due to be launched soon  

Sorry if some don't like my humor,  Just trying to lighten the mood a little.

Leg power

In fact, I am half way there already!