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The price differential is far greater than the e-car subsidy though. There was £10k difference between my Leaf and the Mitsubishi PHEV hybrid alternative and the subsidy only a third of that. Add the latter's higher servicing and running cost and there's no contest. I don't see charging time...

There will be changes though as more e-vans and light e- trucks come into use. As vfr400 mentioned, we already have e-vehicle only delivery zones in some areas of cities and they will increase in number and scope. And of course we will be limited on how fast we can change over from fossil...

Hybrids will stop selling long before 2035. That will be for these reasons: 1) As the long ranges of newer e-cars dawns on consumers. 2) The very high price of hybrids against comparable e-cars. 3) The much higher servicing and fuel costs of hybrids. 4) The tax and benefits...

Indeed, it's going to be all about how quickly they get on top of it. A pandemic would make a mess of the whole world economy. .

They wouldn't get away with that, the EU countries are well behind us in the consumer gas market, very gas dependent. .

This isn't the problem it might seem to be. The great majority of the 39 million vehicles on UK roads are cars. Under half a million are HGVs. Deal with the cars and over 93% of the problem has gone away. We already have electric light HGVs in the 7.5 tonne class, most commonly running on...

Yes, but gas is being phased out! .

It has to be home charging for most and then the costs are not in any way significant. 200 mpg equivalent for example on night rate overnight charging. One supplier had a late night rate at half that, making for 400 mpg equivalent on a Leaf! The costs of charging away from home will tumble as...

There will be free standing street chargers, we've already had them in parts of London for several years. As the e-fleet expands, the chargers will arrive. However, we can't all convert to e-cars instantly, so the 75% nationally who can have a home charger is more than enough converting for...

Yes, they are all a blind alley and the government are right to exclude them from e-car benefits. They still pollute so cannot be a part of a zero carbon target. In fact BMW have discontinued the range extender i3, acknowledging this. The scare story about loss of s/h value is just silly...

Here's a Boris Johnson measure I approve of. Bringing the ic car ban forward from 2040 to 2035 gets us more into line with mainland Europe countries whose choices have been from 2025 to 2035. There's a lot of silly media chatter about the so called impossibility of meeting the new date, but it...

Thanks Zlatan, it's going to be interesting watching this development. I'm undecided how I feel about it, obviously it is for short range flights, so I'm inclined to feel high speed rail is probably a better environmental choice in the longer term. .

The transition period doesn't apply in this matter now we've left. There doesn't have to be any new arrangement. In cases where a constitution forbids extradition, the expectation is that the other country conducts the prosecution in their own courts for a crime committed on our soil. Our part...

The denial is the truth. You'll see the answer in this post of mine, Nissan will shut down in the UK if we adopt WTO tariffs. Honda have already done that even without the tariffs, since it's now more viable. .

You should have read it through, Nissan have denied it*. They maintain that tariffs threaten the whole of their UK and mainland European market. What that means is that in the event of tariffs between the UK and theEU, they will do what Honda have already done, completely shut down...

Nonsense, we went through all this very recently and discussed it in this thread. What happened then is that their public went to the polls and the right wing failed again. It'a always the same story, The Netherlands, France and Italy said to be about to go right wing and anti the EU, but it...

That actually isn't Shimano's worry, it's about how much torque their hub gear can stand. The lower the gearing, the higher the torque, hence the recommendation that the rear sprocket should be no larger than half the front one. In Dave's case though, the excess isn't large enough to be...

I think you'd be thoroughly disapproving of the police stops I suffered many times in my teens and early twenties in the 1950s and '60s. There were very few cars about in those days and the few that existed on the roads were invariably driven by mature men. Trouble was I owned a motorbike...

Much of what you say is true, but I don't see Boris Johnson making a break to anything like Farage or Trump positions. Boris is all about self interest and always has been, so I think it unlikely he will risk stepping outside of the establishment puppet land. .

This old chestnut again! She didn't get away with it, she was disqualified and her racing career ended. That's how we know about it. In truth the motor actually failed but its presence was detected on post race inspection. .