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Yeah I know but say in the last 10 years of that deadline the government ramps up the price of fossil fuels to persuade you go electric & puts a clunker bill in place with a date limit to get rid of your old car. then how much traffic will there be for the existing petrol stations! No more mass produced petrol/diesel cars being made & most people will want to jump ship before the clunker bill finishes and saddles them with a junker or they're priced off the road.
Remember, it's easier to criticise than create!
If a may look at this from an alternative angle.....
As a planet the plan really should be to move most of our vehicles away from being ICE's. Traditional cars being used as expensive playthings / hobbies with heavy financial penalties.
What's going to happen to the countries who make most of their money from exporting oil ? If oil production suddenly goes down significantly due to lack of demanding or it simply running out (it will one day) could we end up with places like the UAE becoming third world countries and having massive humanitarian problems ?
I could be being really stupid but is this a hidden cost that has not yet been factored in?
Another thought I've had is what's going to happen to aeroplanes and ships? They run on oil based fuels - are there any plans to make these run on alternative fuels?
Ships and planes can be run on electricity - both Airbus and Boeing are investing heavily in green tech ..
As for the Arabs oil will still be needed for some things and a number of states are looking at using large solar farms to generate electricity which can be sold to Europe.
Remember, it's easier to criticise than create!
Remember, it's easier to criticise than create!
Just admit it Mags, you don't do jealousy very well.
There's yer answer. Horse-drawn narrow boats.
With any new tech it's the people who push the hardest and earliest who win out, Tesla will win purely because they have built the car factory, he has built the battery factory and the third generation car is about to be released. Tesla have the Supercharger infrastructure in place, as a car firm they are already bigger than Mitsubishi motors. Hydrogen cells might be better but Toyota have had little luck as there's no existing infrastructure to fuel the cars and fire regs hamper building them.
As far as infrastructure to fuel hydrogen cars, building hydrogen fuel stations (or converting existing petrol ones) would probably work out a lot cheaper than all the upgrades to the grid, and the generation infrastructure. There would need to be a ridiculous over capacity 80% of the time to allow for charging electric cars at the wrong time of day when people get home from work.
https://www.carboncommentary.com/blog/2017/3/2/cgb0bbx2uyubc858ubthhxegtd41n0
The problem with electricity, on the other has, is that you can't get it into a battery terribly quickly.
And that problem with renewables is that they're not a constant or turn-on-and-off-able supply.
Thus there isn't a single answer. Renewables will work well once there's a good storage option. Electric cars work well for moderate distances, but need long refills between long hops. Hydrogen cars will only ever do relatively short hops between quick refills.
Petrol and diesel will phase out, at least as mass market propulsion.