In article , Nightjar
writes
On 26-Jul-17 8:38 PM, newshound wrote:
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But it seems to me self evident that electric vehicles are *not* a
dead end. My wife and I have just gone down from four to three road
vehicles, and actually pretty much the most basic electric would be
fine for at least 90% of our journeys. It's just the capital cost
which stops me from getting one at the moment.

My car has a range of around 500-600 miles on a single tank, refills in
a few minutes and can carry five people with luggage, or a lot of
luggage for two people. I don't need all of those every trip, but I do
need them from time to time and only have the one car. All electric
cars are a long way from giving me what I need.

If the manufacturers were given a free hand as how to achieve set
pollution levels, they could, for example, choose to make hybrids that
only ran on electricity in the areas where air quality is an issue;
easily done with GPS.
New BMW 5 series virtually does that already.
Jaguar did a concept hybrid, using miniature gas turbines to run the
generators, which are far more efficient and cleaner than ICEs, however
that still needed fossil fuel to run. By planning to ban new petrol and
diesel cars, the government is preventing developments of that sort.



--
bert