You couldn’t make it up....

[john-e89]

A high ranking member of the Green Party, forgotten her name just now..... has just been complaining about this mornings news regarding going to all electric cars in 10 years time.....let’s not get into a bun fight regarding if the initial funding is enough, if it’ll work etc, etc, the head shaking comes from this woman who is complaining that it’s not the right time to be making an announcement like this as it’ll upset and depress people, her words not mine, that can’t afford electric cars when we’re still in the virus pandemic..... :roll: Its just too stupid for words really isn’t it...does she think people who can’t afford petrol cars right now are jumping for joy then...?? And it’s all about getting into a cleaner, better environment for the future.....but no, she’s a greenie and you would think she’d applauding this as a start, but is complaining about it presumably because it’s not her party in power....I wonder why with that sort of mentality. You couldn’t make it up. :roll: :lol:

 

[GAZA62]

This is the problem John correct all the things that these people moan about and they then have nothing to moan about which means they have to find a new cause to brighten up the dull lives they most likely lead

 

[Stevo1987]

The Green Party upsets and depresses me. Like most politicians.

 

[Nictrix]

In the future when we have moved to electric cars I would think that there will no longer be cheap cars to buy.
There will no longer be cars sold for £100 and people who are low earners will not be able to afford cars at all.
Anybody hazzard a guess at what a 10 year old electric car will be worth when there is no alternative?
If they make it to 10 years that is.
Bearing in mind that once the cars get to a stage where they need new batteries this will cost quite a bit in its self.

 

[enuff_zed]

In the future when we have moved to electric cars I would think that there will no longer be cheap cars to buy.
There will no longer be cars sold for £100 and people who are low earners will not be able to afford cars at all.
Anybody hazzard a guess at what a 10 year old electric car will be worth when there is no alternative?
If they make it to 10 years that is.
Bearing in mind that once the cars get to a stage where they need new batteries this will cost quite a bit in its self.

In the interim period, when they stop building new petrol/diesel cars but have to keep a supply of fuel for the ones still on the road, we may well see secondhand prices holding up perhaps?
Given that there seems no immediately viable alternative to power HGVs etc, we may even see petrol phased out and diesel continuing. That too, could keep diesel car prices up.

 

[M1k3yC]

Anybody hazzard a guess at what a 10 year old electric car will be worth when there is no alternative?
If they make it to 10 years that is.
Bearing in mind that once the cars get to a stage where they need new batteries this will cost quite a bit in its self.

It won't be long before you find out (aside from the no alternative part):
https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-search?sort=relevance&postcode=st162JP&radius=1500&include-delivery-option=on&year-to=2011&fuel-type=Electric

 

[Perjorative]

In the future when we have moved to electric cars I would think that there will no longer be cheap cars to buy.
There will no longer be cars sold for £100 and people who are low earners will not be able to afford cars at all.
Anybody hazzard a guess at what a 10 year old electric car will be worth when there is no alternative?
If they make it to 10 years that is.
Bearing in mind that once the cars get to a stage where they need new batteries this will cost quite a bit in its self.

There'll be a thriving aftermarket supply of bolt-on giant hamster wheel generators - the poor will buy cars with depleted batteries, put their kids in the hamster wheels with a McVomit Burger just out of reach and run the cars on the power generated by the kids need for junk food

This may have the added benefit of combatting child obesity so it's, potentially, win-win...

 

[Nictrix]

Anybody hazzard a guess at what a 10 year old electric car will be worth when there is no alternative?
If they make it to 10 years that is.
Bearing in mind that once the cars get to a stage where they need new batteries this will cost quite a bit in its self.

It won't be long before you find out (aside from the no alternative part):
https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-search?sort=relevance&postcode=st162JP&radius=1500&include-delivery-option=on&year-to=2011&fuel-type=Electric

There you go, a 9 year old Nissan Leaf is £5500 whereas a petrol Nissan Micra is under £2000.
Poorer people will be priced off the road.

 

[BeeEmm]

Given that there seems no immediately viable alternative to power HGVs etc, we may even see petrol phased out and diesel continuing. That too, could keep diesel car prices up.

Some buses have run on Hydrogen for many years and are increasing in numbers in London. LGVs could, and probably will, do the same. A ban on petrol and diesel cars does not mean that Electric is the only power source. Hydrogen buses also solve the travel problems for the poorer people that some have mentioned in this thread.

 

[Stevo1987]

Poor people need to pull their socks up. Should have worked harder at school. They should stop smoking, drinking and sponging off the state then they will be able to afford one of these amazing new eco planet saving wonders of modern science.

 

[exdos]

Poor people need to pull their socks up. Should have worked harder at school. They should stop smoking, drinking and sponging off the state then they will be able to afford one of these amazing new eco planet saving wonders of modern science.

I'm looking forward to reading the replies...

 

[Owdgit]

 

[M1k3yC]

There you go, a 9 year old Nissan Leaf is £5500 whereas a petrol Nissan Micra is under £2000.
Poorer people will be priced off the road.

Perhaps, but it's likely that you will still have 10 year old petrol cars on the second hand market in 2039. Another possibility is that, by then, autonomous vehicles advance enough that those that can't or don't want to pay for full time vehicle ownership can rent an autonomous one on a pay-as-you-go basis. Two decades is a long time.

 

[john-e89]

Poor people need to pull their socks up. Should have worked harder at school. They should stop smoking, drinking and sponging off the state then they will be able to afford one of these amazing new eco planet saving wonders of modern science.

I'm looking forward to reading the replies...

It’s a bit of a wide brush young Steveo Is using for sure.... :lol:

He’s right to a point though, and it pees me off when good earners are shoved into a 40% tax bracket over £40k earnings when most of these people worked hard at school, went to uni and got well deserved degrees etc, in all sorts of walks of life, those in the medical and vetinary trades did 7yrs plus of study, why the feck should they then get hammered on tax for not f**king about at school...? Perhaps the idle toss it off feckless shouldn't get so much state benefit, maybe that’d get them off their fat greasy haired arses, not have so many offspring to carry on their feckless scrounging ways, and let them take up the slack of not hitting good earners so hard. There are lots that have fallen on hard times through no fault of their own for whatever reason that genuinely need help, but there are also more than enough idle dole scrounging layabout thick as mince f**kwits that don’t.

Rant done.... :lol: :roll:

 

[TitanTim]

Once electric cars start becoming the norm then your fossil fuelled car will plummit in value and be virtually worthless, no-one will want them as you won't be hip, plus I can see a stigma being attached to petrol and diesel cars etc where it gets to the stage you will feel guilty polluting the planet with distasteful looks and finger pointing at your exhaust fumes.

The outlook appears gloomy

Tim.

 

[jabber]

Poor people need to pull their socks up. Should have worked harder at school. They should stop smoking, drinking and sponging off the state then they will be able to afford one of these amazing new eco planet saving wonders of modern science.

That is a very crass statement I have 3 sons in their mid 30s - 40s. One is a citroen tech one a royal marine and the other a director of a company, they all own their homes but only the director has any chance of forking out £35k+ for an electric car.

 

[john-e89]

If it all works I’m all for it tbh, we can’t put our love of cars before the planet. Hopefully sports cars will have artificial sounds, it’s better than nothing. Ford do a Transit custom van with a bodykit from MRST, they do artificial sounds in that, pretty crazy and fun in a off your head way in a diesel van sounding like a V8 petrol but hey ho.... :lol:

 

[Z4M-2006]

Who would want one anyway?


Apart from being fast off the mark what else do they have going for them?

One trick pony piece of turd.

 

[TitanTim]

Who would want one anyway?


Apart from being fast off the mark what else do they have going for them?

One trick pony piece of turd.

Electric cars do absolutely nothing for me, same with Formula E, no character or sense of occasion, like most things today, would you have an electric car over a V6/V8/V12 powered vehicle, if you would, I feel sorry for that person.

Tim.

 

[ronk]

We've got barely enough electrical energy now - just wait until the bulk of cars and vans go electric!