New Diesel and Petrol Vehicles to be Banned in the UK from 2040

I don't know why they feel they have to force the issue....just build a better product...

They obviously have no confidence that EVs will be able to compete in a free market without government outlawing any competition.

There is a precedent, though.

What, in the same way the oil companies, have bought up and shelved, pretty much every invention, they seen as competition to them.

Maybe they should outlaw bad engine designs for diesel that do not incorporate hydrogen on demand, that would increase burn efficiency up to 30-35%.

Hydrogen acts in the engine drastically increase the burn velocity during the power stroke, thus keep the flame front caught up with the piston.

This is obviously something to do with the stupid, worthless, feckless Paris Accord Agreement, that actually has nothing to do with pollution, but does rob the common man.

Why give all the stick to diesels?

Petrol engines are fine until you close the throttle then the efficiency flies out the window and that would be any time you are driving on a speed restricted road.

Add to that the use of catalysts which demand stoichiometry to work and you have total inefficiency. Lean burn was a great concept in the 1980's, remember British Leyland lean burn technology as well as Honda's CVCC engine?

the economic disaster that will result will lead to painful political realities, the restrictions will be eased.

Metaphorically speaking, it's too bad those UK/EU poly-ticks can't get their feet up to their heads when they pull those "shoot ourselves in the foot/feet..." antics.

Smoke and mirrors.. they will be so much of an uproar, and they will then realize the government coffers falls way short of expectations, it will vanish into the black hole of lost causes that has been under "The Cabinet" table in No 10 Downing Street since Harold Wilson's time!
Great idea, maybe..... certainly no traction!

Hands up those who work in the oil/gas industry.

I work in the automotive industry. In effect I subsidise the Oil industry by using their products in my V8 powered Jeep which, incidentally, runs on LPG.

Does that mean I indirectly work in the Oil / Gas industry?

Yep. Put your hand up.

OK

Thank you very much, that's got the ball rolling, we'll just wait for the others.

I'm going to put my foot down on this nonsense . . .

Yeah! Go Capitalism Whoooohooooo

Exactly why my post #7 should be applied

Those 2039 vehicles will command a premium pretty quickly.

Wonder what kind of transferable contracts might become available to secure rights to buy some 2039 model.

Well by that time we might be all be dead. And that is one reason why they are pushing electric cars nowadays.

...to carry around our dead corpses? What is the point of that, you still won't be hungry when you get to McDonald's?

I think electric vehicles are just one more way for government to gain more power and control over the "subjects" "slaves". If they don't like you, they suck all the power back out of your car while parked and plugged in, so after the bank robbery, you can't get away.

Now where does that leave all the criminal element? You tell me...

Well, you have a good point here James.

Just curious to know what would happen to all diesel and petrol vehicles once the banning begins? Also, would the manufacturers be giving discounts if a consumer who happens to own a petrol running vehicle decided to buy a new car?

By the way. Is true that automotive industry will start implementing driverless vehicles by 2020?