Well said, but many are just ignorant to what is quite clearly happening with the WEF and its goons. Sausage Fingers and Stalin Starmer both licking the ring of them global shills in my opinion.
@@daveh4019 You are 100% correct, you've researched Klaus Schwab and co I assume. It's one evil plan, depopulate the planet, control the food and who's left via a CBDC social credit score system etc.
No, the problem is that they didn't reach 19.6% as there were many EVs that were pre-registered not actually sold and are languishing on dealers forcourts or hidden away in fields. They also delayed the registration of ICE cars all in the effort to meet the ZEV Mandate which they failed miserably. So this year they have to sell 28% EVs but they already have a backlog of all the 2024 cars that they pre-registered so good luck with that.
So there could be some real bargains out there in the next year or two for a town car as that’s all I’d trust an EV to be good for, maybe in four or five years the tech will be as good as or better in range than an ICE vehicle but they’re not quite there yet
@@doriangray6985 why would they do that? They don’t profit from they. Well actually Tesla won’t profit from that as legacy auto turns to Tesla to buy credits for there shortfall. Well BMW, Stellantis and I think Mercedes are ok as they made the target.
I was an early adopter in 2016 of EV's. I apologise whole heartedly for my actions in normalising EV's and people losing their jobs over here. I will never buy another EV again after it's 42% degradation, after only 41 k miles and hopeless logistical ability throughout my ownership of it. All I can say is a heartfelt sorry for my actions.
I'm considered by anyone that knows me to be a petrol head, but I have now an EV (and still a Diesel Jaguar) but I would not want to return to petrol/diesel as my daily driver. In 2 years of ownership I've driven the diesel half a dozen times because of range. Unless you need to do regular round trips of over 250/280 miles (and would need to public charge) you can't beat them. Try one if you havent already, they changed my mind very quickly. If u need public charging though, forget it at the moment - too expensive, too unreliable
@@GHOOGLEMALEMy main objection to them is that the entire underlying rationale for EVs is a lie. CO2 isn’t driving crisis level climate change. Suppressed science and experts who are not prepared to lie all say what I’ve just said. So, no thanks.
@@GHOOGLEMALEso you need to keep 2 cars in order to make long journey especially in winter as ev loses 40% of its range so if one making 300 miles journey has to stop few times. Plus overtime due to degradation this limit gets even lower and so is your car value massively
@@GHOOGLEMALEthat’s cool that this works for you. Personally I have just the one ICE car that can do it all. One vehicle purchase cost, one insurance cost, one tax cost, one servicing cost, one consumables cost etc, etc. It’s got to get much better for EV’s to be considered by the majority of motorists as things stand. I’ve hired a Model 3 in Greece and it was ok to be fair. But this was on holiday and I, like you, would need an ICE vehicle also if I were to consider EV ownership right now. In this instance, two is not better than one.
I am working hard to save the world and increase CO2 which is essential to life so I drive a 500hp V8 Petrol. I will never live in a 15 min city or have my travel curtailed.
Its the cost of charging for me now.. I have 2 cars in my household, 1 EV and 1 petrol.. I'm just about to sell my EV and go back to another ICE car because of the charging costs.. My EV: £50 fast charge, wait 30mins for 180miles.. My ICE: £50, wait 5mins at he pump for 400 miles.. My ICE car is just more economical now.. which I'm kind of gutted about as I really want to be in the EV side but it just not cost worthy any more
@@charlo90952yep, but going to be hard to put in full street charging everywhere, for a country with a huge debt in spite of being taxed to the max, but can't even fix potholes.
@@charlo90952 the UK power generation and distribution resources are nowhere near capable of doing this. It will take several nuclear power stations and decades of digging up roads to provide enough power.
If we do not have net zero vastly more money will be needed to deal with 4 deg C temperature rise. Already warmest in 100,000 years and you have not twigged.
The increase in EV sales was fleet and mobility. Private sales dropped by 37%. I'm buying spares cars of the model I own in order to maintain it for a very long time.
I'm doing the same, but I fear all the government has to do is increase tax on petrol and diesel to such an extent that we can't afford to run our ICE vehicles.
I'm a 76years OAP and my 2006 diesal land-rover Road tax is £888-50 per year and ULEZ another £12-50 pd. Have over £7k investing in my my car but they want me to scrap it for peanuts and then give it to Ukraine for free.😢
If car manufacturers had any sense they'd be putting much more resources into parts manufacturing, the majority of people are going to be doing the same as you... keeping their old cars running as long as possible... which actually is the best thing we could be doing. Building throw away vehicles like ev's is going to produce even bigger issues than what we already have.
If I can't have ICE cars, I will stop driving. No government, especially a "Lay(yawn)bore" government, is gonna dictate to me what kind of car I must buy! If Starmer wants to wreck the economy to please Net Zero nutter Milliband, that's his perogative. I don't want any part of it. End of.
@timhicks2154 But that's just it. Why? If everyone gave up driving tomorrow, the UK economy would nosedive within a week. Starmer would be begging people to get back in their cars and buy everything associated with motoring, to save Britain from Bankruptcy! So why in hell are they banning a well established cash cow? Answer that.
Between you and The MacMaster, you've convinced me to keep my 15 year old Honda petrol hybrid as long as possible. If you buy an EV now and all these breakthroughs come through, your car will be worthless in 2-3 years with its "old" unsafe, slow charging, too small battery. People should only be buying a car that will serve their needs and be built to last 20 years. It's not a gadget like a smart phone that you change every 1-2 years.
Considering that making an EV releases 60% more CO2 up front than an equivalent ICE car means that scrapping it after a few years is environmemtally more harmful.
And who will end up paying the 15K fine......it has to be built into the price the customer pays, which increases the sales price, which reduces the demand, which leads to fines.....absolute madness.
Battery technology may be accelerating at a force, but these things take time to implement, and time is a luxury that the ICE Motor Manufacturers don't have because of ludicrously short time scales imposed upon them by our politicians. Leading to China’s Impending domination of the world's Battery and EV markets which will kill European motor manufacturing putting at risk millions literally millions of jobs. But how is China Powering this industrial revolution. By burning fossil fuels. The simple fact is that they've invested billions in a new dedicated train line solely to provide the Millions of tonnes needed of coal each day to power the multitudes of new coal fired power stations. Just to keep up with the demand for electricity that is required to build the EV's for western markets. When will our MP’s wake up and realised that this push towards EV's in such a ludicrously short period of time will end with millions joining the dole queue, and all within the next 5 years so much for a government that boasted that their policies would lead to growth in the economy. What they are mandating with this piece of legislation is going to do the exact opposite.
Most of what this government is doing will have the reverse effect of what they claim to want to achieve. Growth won't be achieved by increasing NI and minimum wage rates & taxing us more.
I stand on my “meh” attitude until we get to a max 15 minute charge for 600 miles in a car costing less than £20K. That’s my minimum stats to even make me semi-interested.
Public Chargers are not just inadequate, they are hugely expensive - 10 times the cost of charging at home. House Prices for those capable of home charging (ie Driveways and Garages included in the property) will explode in the not too distant future. What on earth will people living in flats or with no personal charging method do - Its just totally unrealistic. This could end up being the new Poll Tax...
The Government is upset that its’ EV Con is not going to plan. Every EV sold is another nail in the coffin ⚰️ for ICE motor manufacturers. I just wish they’d ban the wretched electric heaps
There’s an old saying that “the predictable effects of a policy IS the objective of the policy”. It’s predictable that several large mass manufactures of cars are going to go bankrupt. Why? They are hindered in their sale of ICE cars, because of the ramping up of the % of total which must be EVs. They are hindered in their sales of EV cars, because of the undercutting of prices by heavily subsidised Chinese companies. They already have a record inventory of completed cars which they’re unable to sell & which are killing then through storage charges. They cannot easily cut their costs substantially and swiftly. Plant closures are not done lightly, but unavoidably is going to happen. Incidentally, those plants will never reopen, because the future looks even worse. There are no catalysts for recovery on the horizon.
What you are not telling people is that to join the EV brigade you have to have a smart meter installed and a smart charger. This gives the power companies full control of what they can charge per unit of electricity and when you can charge. With the governments Net Zero plan the future of a stable grid does not look good. This has happened recently in Australia during a Heat wave and the grid was struggling to cope and the local power company switched off all the air conditioners of the people who had smart meters. This is the future and with the UK having the highest Electricity prices in the world then what is the attraction of an EV.
The first part of your comment is wrong, you do not have to have a smart meter to charge an EV at home. If you don’t have a smart meter you’ll pay your tariff cost whatever that is, which is still at least 30p cheaper than public charging and at least half the price of petrol or diesel. As you are incorrect with that assumption the rest of your comment also is also not very accurate.
@@st200ol If you want to get the cheap overnight tariff that EV owners all shout about then would it not be stupid not to have a smart meter but if you have to be pedantic then yes.
@@ohyesitsme I just wanted to highlight for the people that would never have a smart meter in a "million years" but are possibly on the fence about getting an EV can get one and charge at home with a dumb meter. Busting the FUD around EVs, one thing at a time.
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@@st200olagain EVANGELISTS always harp on about home charging when most don't people dont even have a driveway. And then the additional cost of a home charging installation costing up to 1k pounds. This is isn't for people who drive a 5k to 8k car currently as you would need to either lease or take a gigantic loan to purchase even a used EV. People haven't made the switch due to outgoing cost, range, impracticality of charging and most EV look about as exciting to drive as a week at butlins.
I do think if EV cars are the future , and they are good as we are being told, they should sell themselves without ban. the ICE would fade away by choice if EV is the answer.
They are no way near as good as we are being told. 280 miles range? But only charge to 80%. Don't go below 20% charge. So what is the TRUE range. Cold weather = less range. Wet weather = less range Hot weather = less range More weight passengers or towing less range. So a drive to a holiday destination on a hot sunny day or a winter break or a drive in monsoon season. = how long will it take to get there.
I'm fed up with all this EV crap, the vast majority of the public don't want an inferior technology and you can see why, there are no advantages in EVs which is what you want especially at the increased price. If you live in rural area's then there a nightmare, a tractor would be a better option..
The UK government officially scrapped the plan to ban gas boilers by 2035 on January 5, 2025. This decision was part of a broader shift in policy under the new Labour government, which aims to balance environment goals with practical consideration. I wonder what this means for the motorist?
Unfortunately I think this a bit of a smoke screen. The price of gas is becoming so high that people will not be able to afford to pay for the gas to use them in any case. I only use my gas boiler heating for a couple of hours a day now in the winter, but my monthly bill is around £200 a month. The boiler is a modern efficient one and I live in a fairly small house. So in my humble opinion the government know that us plebs will simply be priced out of using them, so job done, agenda met.
@@robertanton1862 LPG cars have been around over 40 years, especially in Europe, so nothing new and numbers are diminishing. There has never been any decent infrastructure in place in the UK for LPG. My son had one. Too expensive, so will not happen.
@@robertanton1862 And you are absolutely correct 👍 but gas will not be an option either because they want all fossil fuels out of the picture. Fact is, in my opinion for what it is worth, is that they want us off the road completely and control our movement, as they will eventually control us totally 😡
You missed out on some uncomfortable truths as highlighted in the SMMT report just released. In order to achieve sales the manufacturers discounted vehicles to the sum of £4.5 billion. If fines for the shortfall are imposed, this would be a further £703 million. With the closure of factories and the loss of tens of thousands of jobs the forced rapid change is unsustainable.
in 2030 ill still drive my ice if i cant get insured that'll save me some money.
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I suspect some type of C02 carbon tax will be implemented on top of VED as loss of revenue from EV sales. They won't want loss of revenue as its a massive black hole in finances if they can't get enough from ICE vehicles if no more are being made after 2030.
When EV ownership reaches critical mass, two things will happen. There will be massive queues at chargers, and the cost of installing more will result in charge costs going through the roof. Charging stations run from a single substation, greater volumes charging means lowering the rate across each charger. Slower charging means longer queues, it's a self defeating process.
Rota Load Connections Basically means we will all suffer power cuts due to being unable to supply enough power Check it out on governments website Also your block numbers are at the top of your bill Sad times ahead without sufficient power 😢
The problem is, if you can charge from home or work they can work but one size does NOT fit all, this is madness and personally the ZEV mandate and deadline needs to be scrapped permanently. One human fundamental is to have choice
I had a Renault 5gtx in the 90s 1.8 petrol loved That car the new Renault 5 is a great design lots of styling cues from the original had they put a turbo petrol in it would buy one tomorrow no way ev for me great shame
I have never paid more than a couple of grand for any vehicle I have owned in the past 45 years and they all worked pretty well and did their job Also I was able to get replacement parts cheap from salvage yards and repair them myself. E.V's on the other hand are literally a use until they break and throw them away unless you have a warranty or tons of cash to spend. Twenty years from now what choice will the average person on minimum salary living in their pod in a 15 minute city be able to afford. Nothing because they are not allowed to go anywhere and not authorised to travel by personal transport in my opinion.
They should not be forcing the transition at all. Let people buy EVs if they want to. Let the market decide. In truth, the Lithium battery has bogged down the whole industry. We need to change to a different type that will be much improved in range - this is why they are so expensive still, after all these years. A typical EV battery is still 500 - 800 Lbs in weight. Compare that to a full tank of gas - 80 -100 Lbs. If a battery technology that weighs 200 Lbs in a car can deliver, say, 100 miles - then we'd be having a conversation. But right now the weight gap is far too much. It's a monster.
i would question the figures registered, as the gov has put a fine on non car sales so the franchises register them as sold, to get off the fine but the cars are just sitting about in their compounds, waiting for a buyer
My issue..Eg.. Kia I wouldn’t want an EV in the UK without a heat pump.The new plastic box looking EV3 I believe only offers a heat pump if you buy the top spec.this unfortunately pushes the price beyond £40000 meaning we get hammered in road tax.Now why don’t KIA wake up to this and cut out all the unnecessary gimmick car aids and just stick to the basics and fit a heat pump keeping the car under £40000.VW have decided we don’t need a proper dashboard and stick a cheap looking after thought on the dash,and do away with proper easy to use buttons and knobs which incidentally would still work if that screen with everything built in should fail,which would render your car useless.,and then fit driver aids.the irony,trying to adjust your screen whilst driving is dangerous.thats why mobiles and banned whilst driving.Older cars with their tried and tested design worked perfectly.You can drive and adjust radio,temp fan speed etc without taking your eyes off the road,and with proper infrastructure their we can refuel in seconds.and check out the car history when buying second hand.I can’t afford to buy off a forecourt.How do you check out how well a battery has been looked after when buying from the used market.Insurance for an EV is shocking.youtube is full of videos all promoting Ev,s..I don’t see many videos showing you the pros and cons.Ie cost of replacement batteries.Real cost of servicing .poor infrastructure.shocking rip off prices charged for public charging,IF this govt were serious about going electric they,d have invested heavily into infrastructure.The truth is they don’t want us owing a car at all.Big brother has decided that we don’t need a car..It’s only for the privileged few.I Can see the UK flooded with cheap made Chinese EV.S making the CCP even more powerful.
The problem is the number is a percentage of all sales. Without buying any more EV, the % can be greatly increased by simply lowering the sales of ICE cars. This can be done by slapping a hefty tariff on them. I'm not in favour of the EV grant, these historically have just been used to prop up the manufacturers, the consumer did not benefit much of this grant. Additionally, manufacturers need to make smaller affordable EV's. There are just too many of these giant SUV being made, that is not what the mass market consumer wants.
If all you could buy is a TV without a remote control because the government said you need to get fitter would you want that, I suspect you wouldn't, you would want the option..
Beware - possible litigation is to begin soon with regard to those who charge their EVs at home, due to the increased fire risks (extreme damage) that can be caused to neighbours properties. This could really affect a persons' ability to charge at home.
saw a video of over 40 cars queueing up to get on to a tesla charging site, after a few hours waiting in line in snowy weather l wonder how many of them wished they had their old ice car back
We have two tier costs as the posh people charge at home cheap but the 40% don’t have charging as street park ,these cables across payments are going to cause. A tusami in insurance claims
In the original plans before Richie changed them, not sure about now, but the plan was to ban petrol and diesel cars from 2030, and Hybrids also from 2035. If they have just reversed back to this, then Hybrids also go soon after.
A very good unbiased video. I have not seen any significant change in the availability of charging facilities here in Wales though. In fact we still have major problems with mobile telephone coverage which will impact the viability of public charging and there seem to be very few home chargers about. I think this latter issue is the one which will prevent the E.V. revolution from ever becoming universal and will be amazed if this 2030 agenda can be achieved.
It was rather annoying to hear you refer to the EV as interesting and exciting, I thought has this man lost his mind, they are neither of these and will never be. I drove one 2 weeks ago as changing my petrol car to another petrol car but, as they fell into my price range at VW they pressed me to take a drive. I found it to be a surreal environment and concluded as I knew I would that it was not for me. This car I will keep til 2030 and see what is happening again then with EV mandate nonesense and net zero lunacy. The point that you and other youtubers do not address is not the price of an EV, or the inadequacies of the lack of charging facilities depending on what type of property in which you live, it is the fact that I do not like to be mandated as to what I choose to spend 'my' money on, which I have gone out and earned ! That decision should be solely down to me and nobody else. The motor manufacturers can see this nonesense and would far rather continue to give out choice to their customers not dictats. I do hope that you are preparing yourself to kiss goodbye to your beloved BMW sooner rather than later if they have their way. You appear to clearly be on the side now of pushing EV'S, disappointing as we need people with car channels to stay strong and have backbone to speak out..
The only way sales are getting to 28% EVs sold in 2025 will be by reducing the amount of cars sold in total by 10% and by 2030 the sales will be only 20% of what it has been.
The forced transition will highlight all the shortcomings on charging etc. There has not yet been a charging solution for those who have street parking. This is something that really needs addressing as around 60% of properties are street parking only. I live in rural Cornwall we have literally only around a dozen electric car chargers (the are non Tesla) within a forty mile radius. Build the infrastructure first and then the transition will come. Sadly, at present, it is the usual political muddle which is a mixture of great ambition, great incompetence and potential failure.
The beginning of the end isn't it !!! I do not want an EV and even if I did, couldn't afford or want to spend £30k+ on a vehicle, I watched a YT vlog recently where the owner of an EV which cost £130k+ after 3 years of ownership was worth less than £50k, that's just ridiculous, and I'll be sticking with my 2009 Audi TDI for as long as I possible can. It's the beginning of the end !!! we will at some point be forced into Pay Per Mile, whether we want it or not, even though Sadiq Kahn says not, and the reason.... well !!! you may well ask !!! he was recently given a knighthood, which now allows him to sit in the house of lords, which gives him the power to oversee laws of the land... can you see where this is going, yup !!! pay per mile across the UK. The big question is, why is it the UK 'has' to be the leader in this NetZero claptrap ??? when the rest of the world has come to realise it's either not achievable in the given time limit or just complete nonsense to start with and doesn't give a hoot while they spurge billions of emissions into the atmosphere, but the UK "has" to be the leader otherwise they say we will be left behind... what nonsense !!! but Ed the lunatic, is possessed with it. What's happened to all the research with synthetic low emission fuels, which are useable in ICE powered vehicles, why isn't that being pushed into focus, which would allow us to still use the vehicles we currently drive, saving on all the emissions waste on the production of EV's, and the scrappage of perfectly good and still useable ICE powered vehicles just to push the NetZero by 2030, just how is that environmentally friendly or a good idea, more like "mental" All it amounts to in reality is they want us out of our privately owned cars/motorbikes/vans etc and doing what we're told, while they (2 tier Keir predominantly) fly around in private jets going to COP (out) 29 etc, etc, etc... at OUR expense. I could possibly have been persuaded into a Hybrid, but now they have even made those spawn of the devil, I feel, there truly is no hope for the health of the car industry in the UK going forward, this mental government will kill it and in the process make many, many people out of work.
"we will at some point be forced into Pay Per Mile" I can't wait for that to come into force. my vehicle will report them that it has been driven just 1 mile last year "The big question is, why is it the UK 'has' to be the leader in this NetZero claptrap ???" because you wanted less immigration the worthless you can make people's lives in the UK, the less will desire to come over here, and the more will leave on their own
I have a 2015 diesel Peugeot Partner still in immaculate condition £30 per year tax. It will see me out for the rest of my driving years maybe 20 years. I also have a few bikes to get around as well. I don't have the faintest interest in EVs.
Yes, I know what you mean! My great grandpa felt the same when had to give up his horse and cart for one of those new-tangled petrol cars :) Happy motoring!
EVs are ghastly. But spending the Summer in France, I think I'm going to put a bank of solar panels in the orchard and use it to run a heavily depreciated low range EV. If I do 10 miles or more I'll take my SL600. The excess can go into a battery and I'll keep the house heating ticking over in Winter.
you need 12kWh per day to heat up ONE SINGLE room how many rooms you intend to heat? 12kWh per day x 100 days of winter = 1200kWh 1kWh battery = £100 1200kWh battery = £120,000 good luck!
It doesn't matter if there are more chargers because the more cars that are charging at one place the less power each car gets per minute of charge from the max power of the charging station it has to be divided so you have a longer charge plus the through flow takes way longer than a filling station. You will have the same flow rate at a filling station no matter how many are filling up. The law of physics rules.
Very low second hand values for EVs is one of the biggest problems. If there are breakthroughs in battery technology then the older EVs will be basically worthless
The global mean temperature is now 1.5 deg above pre industrial levels. We need EVs if our grandchildren are not to cook. It is that serious. EVs are essential.
Well done Labour, you might have put the final nail in the coffin of the British motor manufacturing industry. We will be turning Chinese! (Apologies to The Vapors' Turning Japanese lyrics. The Chinese built "MG" is not the same company when it was British owned.
The EU import duty on Chinese made cars is a maximum of 35.3%. The duty depends on the level of unfair subsidization. Tesla: 7.8% BYD: 17.0% Geely: 18.8% SAIC: 35.3%
I will say there is now more of a interest in buying older cars over new ones now especially when you have Richard Hammond's daughter talking about buying a Range Rover from 2004. Other channels equally tend to be doing similar including some high profile channels. Sadly new cars aren't desirable enough for everyone to want now.
I couldn't care less what makes my car move as long as it's affordable, safe, functional, reliable and fun. Unfortunately, EVs fall short of affordability and functionality. I am openminded.
Cars registered is not the same as cars sold. A lot of those cars registered in 2024 have not been sold. They are on forcourts as pre-registered and passed straight to auction sites. Private buyers just aren’t buying EVs
The UK has no car companies; the very last, TECHNICALLY, mass production car company, was Morgan, which was sold to an Italian outfit, several years ago; what is left, is basically 2 guys in a shed, and they wont really be affected,
As you said in the video car makers need certainty not swopping back and fourth like most governments do. They work on a 5 to 7 year plan on new modals. As for the car buyer they would be prepared to try if it wasn’t for the anti Ev brigade trying to derail the plan like oil companies and Ev haters. The biggest problem with mass adoption is on street parking. Yes we could always won’t more chargers but you would be surprised how little you use them if you can charge at home.
@ that’s what I said was the stumbling block. There are ways we’re you have a channel in the pavement that the cable slots into from your house to the car. Some councils allow it others are undecided and say you need planning. There are charging posts that can be installed on pavements along with utilising street light posts. All of these things are in place under different councils around the country it just needs the government/ councils to get there act together. Flats are the bigger problem it would need a consent from the landlord to install changes. Failing that you would have to do what people have done for the last 80 years when they won’t / petrol /diesel go to a fuel station. In the case of electricity Go to a charging station of which there are way more of them than there are petrol stations believe it or not.
The government should not be forcing manufactures to building cars that people dont want, that could change tomorrow tho, they will collapse the car industry with these ridiculous time tables.
The fine for not meeting targets is why auctions are full of EV's with extremely low as 10 miles apparently two owners tells a story, no one wants them there will be trouble ahead for the government and the WEF they govern by consent not dictatorship .We have battery vehicles low miles battery issues rejected warranties go figure
Although development of batteries etc is a good thing, it also reinforces weaknesses of today's technology. This is a main reason of stalling the market. We'll wait....
It's not about transitioning to EV's, but to end private vehicle ownership and live in 15 min cities, WEF you will own nothing and be happy.
Spot on. When are more people going to wake up?
Well said, but many are just ignorant to what is quite clearly happening with the WEF and its goons. Sausage Fingers and Stalin Starmer both licking the ring of them global shills in my opinion.
Is it also the end of big family gatherings or more zoom call family meetings?
if you dont own car, you will not care about vehicle value depreciation :)
@@SquidwardhatesEVs funny if you can’t afford an ev you can’t afford any car so that don’t track
You're all delusional, this isn't about a transition to EV"s its a
transition to no private transport ie no cars.
Absolutely right.
100%
That’s definitely what they’re trying to. This is why I’m against EVs, it’s the first step to complete control.
@@daveh4019 You are 100% correct, you've researched Klaus Schwab and co I assume. It's one evil plan, depopulate the planet, control the food and who's left via a CBDC social credit score system etc.
But why? The government makes an absolute fortune from the motorist why would they want this to stop and what would replace it?
No, the problem is that they didn't reach 19.6% as there were many EVs that were pre-registered not actually sold and are languishing on dealers forcourts or hidden away in fields. They also delayed the registration of ICE cars all in the effort to meet the ZEV Mandate which they failed miserably. So this year they have to sell 28% EVs but they already have a backlog of all the 2024 cars that they pre-registered so good luck with that.
On auto trader there’s twice as many pre registered petrol cars for sale compared to EVs
More fool car dealerships for agreeing to this ev mandate, they all saw the golden egg, unfortuantely the egg is now rotten.
So there could be some real bargains out there in the next year or two for a town car as that’s all I’d trust an EV to be good for, maybe in four or five years the tech will be as good as or better in range than an ICE vehicle but they’re not quite there yet
Betting you that Labour will add hybrid cars to the pure electric to take that 19.6% higher
@@doriangray6985 why would they do that? They don’t profit from they. Well actually Tesla won’t profit from that as legacy auto turns to Tesla to buy credits for there shortfall. Well BMW, Stellantis and I think Mercedes are ok as they made the target.
I feel sorry for people who applaud EV’s. They are totally failing to see the big picture, the Agenda.
That's why they are called EVangelists!
I was an early adopter in 2016 of EV's. I apologise whole heartedly for my actions in normalising EV's and people losing their jobs over here. I will never buy another EV again after it's 42% degradation, after only 41 k miles and hopeless logistical ability throughout my ownership of it. All I can say is a heartfelt sorry for my actions.
Why the word Environmental has mental in it...
I love my Tesla Y, nothing to do with any agenda.
Best car ever
I just love my Tesla Y, no agenda, only a fantastic car.
Very cheap to run as well
EVs are so good they have to ban all alternatives and force them on you.
I'm considered by anyone that knows me to be a petrol head, but I have now an EV (and still a Diesel Jaguar) but I would not want to return to petrol/diesel as my daily driver. In 2 years of ownership I've driven the diesel half a dozen times because of range. Unless you need to do regular round trips of over 250/280 miles (and would need to public charge) you can't beat them. Try one if you havent already, they changed my mind very quickly. If u need public charging though, forget it at the moment - too expensive, too unreliable
@@GHOOGLEMALEMy main objection to them is that the entire underlying rationale for EVs is a lie.
CO2 isn’t driving crisis level climate change.
Suppressed science and experts who are not prepared to lie all say what I’ve just said.
So, no thanks.
@@GHOOGLEMALEso you need to keep 2 cars in order to make long journey especially in winter as ev loses 40% of its range so if one making 300 miles journey has to stop few times. Plus overtime due to degradation this limit gets even lower and so is your car value massively
Thats the best way to get prices down... and EVs are getting to be much better value options these days
@@GHOOGLEMALEthat’s cool that this works for you. Personally I have just the one ICE car that can do it all. One vehicle purchase cost, one insurance cost, one tax cost, one servicing cost, one consumables cost etc, etc. It’s got to get much better for EV’s to be considered by the majority of motorists as things stand. I’ve hired a Model 3 in Greece and it was ok to be fair. But this was on holiday and I, like you, would need an ICE vehicle also if I were to consider EV ownership right now. In this instance, two is not better than one.
I am working hard to save the world and increase CO2 which is essential to life so I drive a 500hp V8 Petrol. I will never live in a 15 min city or have my travel curtailed.
Yeah like it man, make climate change great again!
Mine's only a 455hp T,Turbski v8 but don't intend to live in a 15min city either
Too much CO2 is very harmful. Temperatures are now he highest in 100,000 years. Clearly you do not care about your grandchildren's futures.
Its the cost of charging for me now.. I have 2 cars in my household, 1 EV and 1 petrol.. I'm just about to sell my EV and go back to another ICE car because of the charging costs..
My EV: £50 fast charge, wait 30mins for 180miles..
My ICE: £50, wait 5mins at he pump for 400 miles..
My ICE car is just more economical now.. which I'm kind of gutted about as I really want to be in the EV side but it just not cost worthy any more
You don't charge at home?
@@ziploc2000 nearly half the country doesn't have a driveway (like me for example), that is just one of many elephants in the room.
You have two cars but don't charge at home? There need to be sidewalk charges for overnight charging.
@@charlo90952yep, but going to be hard to put in full street charging everywhere, for a country with a huge debt in spite of being taxed to the max, but can't even fix potholes.
@@charlo90952 the UK power generation and distribution resources are nowhere near capable of doing this. It will take several nuclear power stations and decades of digging up roads to provide enough power.
Electricity is only goin to get more expensive and the demand for it will put pressure on the grid to deliver.
Solar panels?
Yes solar panels. And a lot more land fill for the old panels. Great for the environment.
CO2 is what plants breath. Bad for the environment.
I hope that the government have enough money to pay all the people that will be out of work because of net zero.
No! They will leave you living on the street, whilst they live it up in cloud cuckoo land. Hooray for Starmar! Great Guy!
ONLY IF THEY INCREASE TAXES EVEN MORE
They will offset this by maximising taxes on all people because it's all for the greater good.
We'll all be paid £1000 per week to sit in our modular cell and own our own turnip.
If we do not have net zero vastly more money will be needed to deal with 4 deg C temperature rise. Already warmest in 100,000 years and you have not twigged.
The increase in EV sales was fleet and mobility. Private sales dropped by 37%. I'm buying spares cars of the model I own in order to maintain it for a very long time.
I'm doing the same, but I fear all the government has to do is increase tax on petrol and diesel to such an extent that we can't afford to run our ICE vehicles.
I'm a 76years OAP and my 2006 diesal land-rover Road tax is £888-50 per year and ULEZ another £12-50 pd. Have over £7k investing in my my car but they want me to scrap it for peanuts and then give it to Ukraine for free.😢
Petrol and diesel won't be around a very long time.
If car manufacturers had any sense they'd be putting much more resources into parts manufacturing, the majority of people are going to be doing the same as you... keeping their old cars running as long as possible... which actually is the best thing we could be doing.
Building throw away vehicles like ev's is going to produce even bigger issues than what we already have.
You are no stockpiling petrol are you? It will become very expensive when nobody wants it.
I hope Reform are elected as our government in 2029 and hope it won't be too late to reverse this madness!
This is why Elon Musk backs people like Trump with campaign funds. He will have influence to protect Tesla
Not madness. The only sane way forwards.
The UK will probably cosy up to China and demand we all buy EV cars from there. Absolutely bonkers.
If I can't have ICE cars, I will stop driving. No government, especially a "Lay(yawn)bore" government, is gonna dictate to me what kind of car I must buy! If Starmer wants to wreck the economy to please Net Zero nutter Milliband, that's his perogative. I don't want any part of it. End of.
That’s what they want us to do. Stop driving.
@timhicks2154 But that's just it. Why? If everyone gave up driving tomorrow, the UK economy would nosedive within a week. Starmer would be begging people to get back in their cars and buy everything associated with motoring, to save Britain from Bankruptcy! So why in hell are they banning a well established cash cow? Answer that.
No no. To SERVE his WEF masters. Nothing to do with weak Milliband
Then you will stop driving.
Isn't Milliband part of the issue taking orders from higher powers
Won't happen as Liebour won't be in charge by then.
No but the damage done maybe irreversible, we will not have a car industry in Europe and we will be buying ice cars from China
I agree, it'll be extended again as it's not a realistic deadline.
This.
Make no mistake it is unstoppable. That is what legacy car makers assumed and now they will be going bust
If we can survive the liebour onslaught until the 20th hopefully things will change. Canada just got freed from tyranny hopefully we will too
Between you and The MacMaster, you've convinced me to keep my 15 year old Honda petrol hybrid as long as possible. If you buy an EV now and all these breakthroughs come through, your car will be worthless in 2-3 years with its "old" unsafe, slow charging, too small battery. People should only be buying a car that will serve their needs and be built to last 20 years. It's not a gadget like a smart phone that you change every 1-2 years.
Considering that making an EV releases 60% more CO2 up front than an equivalent ICE car means that scrapping it after a few years is environmemtally more harmful.
Nonsense
I swapped my smartphone after 8 years as the screen broke. My cars are much much older obviously
The MacMaster is just a purveyor of outrageous fossil fuel industry FUD.
And who will end up paying the 15K fine......it has to be built into the price the customer pays, which increases the sales price, which reduces the demand, which leads to fines.....absolute madness.
Correct
isn't that the plan anyway
easy, the people who buy expensive cars. If the car is already 300k or more the 15k is nothing
Battery technology may be accelerating at a force, but these things take time to implement, and time is a luxury that the ICE Motor Manufacturers don't have because of ludicrously short time scales imposed upon them by our politicians. Leading to
China’s Impending domination of the world's Battery and EV markets which will kill European motor manufacturing putting at risk millions literally millions of jobs.
But how is China Powering this industrial revolution. By burning fossil fuels. The simple fact is that they've invested billions in a new dedicated train line solely to provide the Millions of tonnes needed of coal each day to power the multitudes of new coal fired power stations. Just to keep up with the demand for electricity that is required to build the EV's for western markets.
When will our MP’s wake up and realised that this push towards EV's in such a ludicrously short period of time will end with millions joining the dole queue, and all within the next 5 years so much for a government that boasted that their policies would lead to growth in the economy. What they are mandating with this piece of legislation is going to do the exact opposite.
Only China CCP benefits from 2030 and ZEV, makes you wonder if they have agents imbedded in UK Gov .
Most of what this government is doing will have the reverse effect of what they claim to want to achieve. Growth won't be achieved by increasing NI and minimum wage rates & taxing us more.
Battery only tip of the iceberg .the real problem is infrastructure.
Get these people out of power for christ sake.
For our sake.
I stand on my “meh” attitude until we get to a max 15 minute charge for 600 miles in a car costing less than £20K. That’s my minimum stats to even make me semi-interested.
If evs were that good they would not need mandates we'd be fighting to get our hands on them
Never even tried driving one, have you?
Public Chargers are not just inadequate, they are hugely expensive - 10 times the cost of charging at home. House Prices for those capable of home charging (ie Driveways and Garages included in the property) will explode in the not too distant future. What on earth will people living in flats or with no personal charging method do - Its just totally unrealistic. This could end up being the new Poll Tax...
The new age of SERFDOM !
Hopefully
The Government is upset that its’ EV Con is not going to plan. Every EV sold is another nail in the coffin ⚰️ for ICE motor manufacturers. I just wish they’d ban the wretched electric heaps
I don't give a 💩if they give them away, I won't have one.
There’s an old saying that “the predictable effects of a policy IS the objective of the policy”.
It’s predictable that several large mass manufactures of cars are going to go bankrupt.
Why?
They are hindered in their sale of ICE cars, because of the ramping up of the % of total which must be EVs.
They are hindered in their sales of EV cars, because of the undercutting of prices by heavily subsidised Chinese companies.
They already have a record inventory of completed cars which they’re unable to sell & which are killing then through storage charges.
They cannot easily cut their costs substantially and swiftly. Plant closures are not done lightly, but unavoidably is going to happen. Incidentally, those plants will never reopen, because the future looks even worse. There are no catalysts for recovery on the horizon.
I concur
What you are not telling people is that to join the EV brigade you have to have a smart meter installed and a smart charger. This gives the power companies full control of what they can charge per unit of electricity and when you can charge. With the governments Net Zero plan the future of a stable grid does not look good. This has happened recently in Australia during a Heat wave and the grid was struggling to cope and the local power company switched off all the air conditioners of the people who had smart meters. This is the future and with the UK having the highest Electricity prices in the world then what is the attraction of an EV.
The first part of your comment is wrong, you do not have to have a smart meter to charge an EV at home. If you don’t have a smart meter you’ll pay your tariff cost whatever that is, which is still at least 30p cheaper than public charging and at least half the price of petrol or diesel. As you are incorrect with that assumption the rest of your comment also is also not very accurate.
@@st200ol Mandatory smart meters are not far away, it will happen.
@@st200ol If you want to get the cheap overnight tariff that EV owners all shout about then would it not be stupid not to have a smart meter but if you have to be pedantic then yes.
@@ohyesitsme I just wanted to highlight for the people that would never have a smart meter in a "million years" but are possibly on the fence about getting an EV can get one and charge at home with a dumb meter. Busting the FUD around EVs, one thing at a time.
@@st200olagain EVANGELISTS always harp on about home charging when most don't people dont even have a driveway. And then the additional cost of a home charging installation costing up to 1k pounds. This is isn't for people who drive a 5k to 8k car currently as you would need to either lease or take a gigantic loan to purchase even a used EV. People haven't made the switch due to outgoing cost, range, impracticality of charging and most EV look about as exciting to drive as a week at butlins.
I do think if EV cars are the future , and they are good as we are being told, they should sell themselves without ban. the ICE would fade away by choice if EV is the answer.
Never be the future.
They are no way near as good as we are being told. 280 miles range? But only charge to 80%. Don't go below 20% charge. So what is the TRUE range. Cold weather = less range. Wet weather = less range Hot weather = less range More weight passengers or towing less range. So a drive to a holiday destination on a hot sunny day or a winter break or a drive in monsoon season. = how long will it take to get there.
When sales reach tipping point sales will explode. They are better for most
@@Gdoggy1239 they are better for rich people so they can use them to pop to the shops.
The tipping point was passed some time ago.
I'm fed up with all this EV crap, the vast majority of the public don't want an inferior technology and you can see why, there are no advantages in EVs which is what you want especially at the increased price. If you live in rural area's then there a nightmare, a tractor would be a better option..
Nonsense
@gordongilchrist1237 brilliant argument, wouldn't expect anything else from an EV lover
@@MrJudgejeffrey I have given up arguing with the deniers
@@Gdoggy1239 like wise..
All the auto makers will be out of business before 2030 at this rate.
@@cesiumalloy that's their plan, all these little steps to end cars in total
I saw my neighbour looking at his frozen tesla this morning as I pulled away in my diesel van 😂
The later ones have heat pumps . You can pre warm them from your phone before you step out of your doorway.
The UK government officially scrapped the plan to ban gas boilers by 2035 on January 5, 2025. This decision was part of a broader shift in policy under the new Labour government, which aims to balance environment goals with practical consideration. I wonder what this means for the motorist?
Unfortunately I think this a bit of a smoke screen. The price of gas is becoming so high that people will not be able to afford to pay for the gas to use them in any case. I only use my gas boiler heating for a couple of hours a day now in the winter, but my monthly bill is around £200 a month. The boiler is a modern efficient one and I live in a fairly small house. So in my humble opinion the government know that us plebs will simply be priced out of using them, so job done, agenda met.
it means there's going to be plenty of gas
and all petrol cars will be converted to run on gas (as some are on LPG)
@@robertanton1862 LPG cars have been around over 40 years, especially in Europe, so nothing new and numbers are diminishing. There has never been any decent infrastructure in place in the UK for LPG. My son had one. Too expensive, so will not happen.
@@KB-uu4fy I commented for people saying there's not going to be any more petrol, or petrol will be taxed too high.
@@robertanton1862 And you are absolutely correct 👍 but gas will not be an option either because they want all fossil fuels out of the picture. Fact is, in my opinion for what it is worth, is that they want us off the road completely and control our movement, as they will eventually control us totally 😡
You missed out on some uncomfortable truths as highlighted in the SMMT report just released.
In order to achieve sales the manufacturers discounted vehicles to the sum of £4.5 billion. If fines for the shortfall are imposed, this would be a further £703 million. With the closure of factories and the loss of tens of thousands of jobs the forced rapid change is unsustainable.
People will just hang on to their ICE cars until the wheels falls off :-)
Or the fuel is no longer available to the hoi polloi.
in 2030 ill still drive my ice
if i cant get insured that'll save me some money.
I suspect some type of C02 carbon tax will be implemented on top of VED as loss of revenue from EV sales. They won't want loss of revenue as its a massive black hole in finances if they can't get enough from ICE vehicles if no more are being made after 2030.
Zero bullshit cash grab.
Imagine trying to sell battery cars in a country with the highest Electricity prices in the world 🤡, Oh hang on.............
Yeah come imagination our politicians have.
When EV ownership reaches critical mass, two things will happen. There will be massive queues at chargers, and the cost of installing more will result in charge costs going through the roof. Charging stations run from a single substation, greater volumes charging means lowering the rate across each charger. Slower charging means longer queues, it's a self defeating process.
42% of USA EV owners have gone back to petrol
that was fake news
Rota Load Connections Basically means we will all suffer power cuts due to being unable to supply enough power Check it out on governments website Also your block numbers are at the top of your bill Sad times ahead without sufficient power 😢
I am prepared,
I bought a lamp gas from a car boot sales
I’ll never be persuaded EV is the better choice.
Keep that head in the sand
@@Gdoggy1239fool
The problem is, if you can charge from home or work they can work but one size does NOT fit all, this is madness and personally the ZEV mandate and deadline needs to be scrapped permanently. One human fundamental is to have choice
Join Reform 🇬🇧
No doubt they will have to backtrack on 2030, its not possible.
How many of them numbers were just registered but not actually sold In Germany there are 1000s in a carpark registered last year and never sold
I had a Renault 5gtx in the 90s 1.8 petrol loved That car the new Renault 5 is a great design lots of styling cues from the original had they put a turbo petrol in it would buy one tomorrow no way ev for me great shame
I have never paid more than a couple of grand for any vehicle I have owned in the past 45 years and they all worked pretty well and did their job
Also I was able to get replacement parts cheap from salvage yards and repair them myself. E.V's on the other hand are literally a use until they break and throw them away unless you have a warranty or tons of cash to spend.
Twenty years from now what choice will the average person on minimum salary living in their pod in a 15 minute city be able to afford.
Nothing because they are not allowed to go anywhere and not authorised to travel by personal transport in my opinion.
Good decision.
They should not be forcing the transition at all. Let people buy EVs if they want to. Let the market decide. In truth, the Lithium battery has bogged down the whole industry. We need to change to a different type that will be much improved in range - this is why they are so expensive still, after all these years. A typical EV battery is still 500 - 800 Lbs in weight. Compare that to a full tank of gas - 80 -100 Lbs. If a battery technology that weighs 200 Lbs in a car can deliver, say, 100 miles - then we'd be having a conversation. But right now the weight gap is far too much. It's a monster.
It’s also illegal to run a cable across the pavement even with the protectors !
i would question the figures registered, as the gov has put a fine on non car sales
so the franchises register them as sold, to get off the fine
but the cars are just sitting about in their compounds, waiting for a buyer
My issue..Eg.. Kia I wouldn’t want an EV in the UK without a heat pump.The new plastic box looking EV3 I believe only offers a heat pump if you buy the top spec.this unfortunately pushes the price beyond £40000 meaning we get hammered in road tax.Now why don’t KIA wake up to this and cut out all the unnecessary gimmick car aids and just stick to the basics and fit a heat pump keeping the car under £40000.VW have decided we don’t need a proper dashboard and stick a cheap looking after thought on the dash,and do away with proper easy to use buttons and knobs which incidentally would still work if that screen with everything built in should fail,which would render your car useless.,and then fit driver aids.the irony,trying to adjust your screen whilst driving is dangerous.thats why mobiles and banned whilst driving.Older cars with their tried and tested design worked perfectly.You can drive and adjust radio,temp fan speed etc without taking your eyes off the road,and with proper infrastructure their we can refuel in seconds.and check out the car history when buying second hand.I can’t afford to buy off a forecourt.How do you check out how well a battery has been looked after when buying from the used market.Insurance for an EV is shocking.youtube is full of videos all promoting Ev,s..I don’t see many videos showing you the pros and cons.Ie cost of replacement batteries.Real cost of servicing .poor infrastructure.shocking rip off prices charged for public charging,IF this govt were serious about going electric they,d have invested heavily into infrastructure.The truth is they don’t want us owing a car at all.Big brother has decided that we don’t need a car..It’s only for the privileged few.I Can see the UK flooded with cheap made Chinese EV.S making the CCP even more powerful.
The problem is the number is a percentage of all sales. Without buying any more EV, the % can be greatly increased by simply lowering the sales of ICE cars. This can be done by slapping a hefty tariff on them. I'm not in favour of the EV grant, these historically have just been used to prop up the manufacturers, the consumer did not benefit much of this grant. Additionally, manufacturers need to make smaller affordable EV's. There are just too many of these giant SUV being made, that is not what the mass market consumer wants.
How much of that 19% of evs were fleet sales?
If all you could buy is a TV without a remote control because the government said you need to get fitter would you want that, I suspect you wouldn't, you would want the option..
Beware - possible litigation is to begin soon with regard to those who charge their EVs at home, due to the increased fire risks (extreme damage) that can be caused to neighbours properties. This could really affect a persons' ability to charge at home.
I agree with your summary
What about.housr insurance refusing to pay out if a EV is.on the drive
saw a video of over 40 cars queueing up to get on to a tesla charging site, after a few hours waiting in line in snowy weather l wonder how many of them wished they had their old ice car back
We have two tier costs as the posh people charge at home cheap but the 40% don’t have charging as street park ,these cables across payments are going to cause. A tusami in insurance claims
Norway is opretty cold but their BEV purchases are more than 85%
They also have a gdp per capita that is almost twice as high as here in the UK due to their massive oil profits.
Plug in Hybrids totally negate the reason for a hybrid in the first place: The non reliance on charge points.....
In the original plans before Richie changed them, not sure about now, but the plan was to ban petrol and diesel cars from 2030, and Hybrids also from 2035. If they have just reversed back to this, then Hybrids also go soon after.
Hopefully it will become a general election issue in 2029 and dissenting drivers should vote against Starmar and Labour.
A very good unbiased video. I have not seen any significant change in the availability of charging facilities here in Wales though. In fact we still have major problems with mobile telephone coverage which will impact the viability of public charging and there seem to be very few home chargers about. I think this latter issue is the one which will prevent the E.V. revolution from ever becoming universal and will be amazed if this 2030 agenda can be achieved.
@@robertowen6499 mobile phone coverage really is a joke 🤦🏽♂️ Thanks for your kind comment 🙏🏽☺️
It was rather annoying to hear you refer to the EV as interesting and exciting, I thought has this man lost his mind, they are neither of these and will never be. I drove one 2 weeks ago as changing my petrol car to another petrol car but, as they fell into my price range at VW they pressed me to take a drive. I found it to be a surreal environment and concluded as I knew I would that it was not for me. This car I will keep til 2030 and see what is happening again then with EV mandate nonesense and net zero lunacy. The point that you and other youtubers do not address is not the price of an EV, or the inadequacies of the lack of charging facilities depending on what type of property in which you live, it is the fact that I do not like to be mandated as to what I choose to spend 'my' money on, which I have gone out and earned ! That decision should be solely down to me and nobody else. The motor manufacturers can see this nonesense and would far rather continue to give out choice to their customers not dictats. I do hope that you are preparing yourself to kiss goodbye to your beloved BMW sooner rather than later if they have their way. You appear to clearly be on the side now of pushing EV'S, disappointing as we need people with car channels to stay strong and have backbone to speak out..
Yes I agree . He's a sellout .
I can see a lot of car sharing due to high costs of ev. I only need the van 3 days a week really. The ebike is fine for most stuff with the trailer.
The only way sales are getting to 28% EVs sold in 2025 will be by reducing the amount of cars sold in total by 10% and by 2030 the sales will be only 20% of what it has been.
£5 billion in discounts to achieve that 19% and tens of thousands of pre-registrations. 28% next year? That's bankruptcy for the motor trade
Are we the only people to have politicians who are enforcing a zev mandate or equivalent ?
The forced transition will highlight all the shortcomings on charging etc. There has not yet been a charging solution for those who have street parking. This is something that really needs addressing as around 60% of properties are street parking only. I live in rural Cornwall we have literally only around a dozen electric car chargers (the are non Tesla) within a forty mile radius. Build the infrastructure first and then the transition will come. Sadly, at present, it is the usual political muddle which is a mixture of great ambition, great incompetence and potential failure.
I will never do their bidding
The beginning of the end isn't it !!! I do not want an EV and even if I did, couldn't afford or want to spend £30k+ on a vehicle, I watched a YT vlog recently where the owner of an EV which cost £130k+ after 3 years of ownership was worth less than £50k, that's just ridiculous, and I'll be sticking with my 2009 Audi TDI for as long as I possible can.
It's the beginning of the end !!! we will at some point be forced into Pay Per Mile, whether we want it or not, even though Sadiq Kahn says not, and the reason.... well !!! you may well ask !!! he was recently given a knighthood, which now allows him to sit in the house of lords, which gives him the power to oversee laws of the land... can you see where this is going, yup !!! pay per mile across the UK.
The big question is, why is it the UK 'has' to be the leader in this NetZero claptrap ??? when the rest of the world has come to realise it's either not achievable in the given time limit or just complete nonsense to start with and doesn't give a hoot while they spurge billions of emissions into the atmosphere, but the UK "has" to be the leader otherwise they say we will be left behind... what nonsense !!! but Ed the lunatic, is possessed with it.
What's happened to all the research with synthetic low emission fuels, which are useable in ICE powered vehicles, why isn't that being pushed into focus, which would allow us to still use the vehicles we currently drive, saving on all the emissions waste on the production of EV's, and the scrappage of perfectly good and still useable ICE powered vehicles just to push the NetZero by 2030, just how is that environmentally friendly or a good idea, more like "mental"
All it amounts to in reality is they want us out of our privately owned cars/motorbikes/vans etc and doing what we're told, while they (2 tier Keir predominantly) fly around in private jets going to COP (out) 29 etc, etc, etc... at OUR expense.
I could possibly have been persuaded into a Hybrid, but now they have even made those spawn of the devil, I feel, there truly is no hope for the health of the car industry in the UK going forward, this mental government will kill it and in the process make many, many people out of work.
"we will at some point be forced into Pay Per Mile"
I can't wait for that to come into force.
my vehicle will report them that it has been driven just 1 mile last year
"The big question is, why is it the UK 'has' to be the leader in this NetZero claptrap ???"
because you wanted less immigration
the worthless you can make people's lives in the UK, the less will desire to come over here, and the more will leave on their own
So how many official government cars and MPs cars are EV and how many charging points are there at the House of Commons.
Good news. The car manufacturers now can get on and supply cheaper EVs. More competitive market
I have a 2015 diesel Peugeot Partner still in immaculate condition £30 per year tax. It will see me out for the rest of my driving years maybe 20 years. I also have a few bikes to get around as well. I don't have the faintest interest in EVs.
Yes, I know what you mean!
My great grandpa felt the same when had to give up his horse and cart for one of those new-tangled petrol cars :)
Happy motoring!
@@DavidPlayfair to be fair, that particular transition was market led rather than policy enforced.
@DavidPlayfair no one ever had to give up anything for a new fangled petrol car, in fact, they sold well without any mandates at all.
The problem is not the ICE it’s the fuel!
Get your ice cars while you can, used ones will skyrocket in value.
EVs are ghastly. But spending the Summer in France, I think I'm going to put a bank of solar panels in the orchard and use it to run a heavily depreciated low range EV. If I do 10 miles or more I'll take my SL600.
The excess can go into a battery and I'll keep the house heating ticking over in Winter.
you need 12kWh per day to heat up ONE SINGLE room
how many rooms you intend to heat?
12kWh per day x 100 days of winter = 1200kWh
1kWh battery = £100
1200kWh battery = £120,000
good luck!
The problem is the EVs are too expensive to buy upfront. I am prepared to buy another ICE before the deadline tbh.
It doesn't matter if there are more chargers because the more cars that are charging at one place the less power each car gets per minute of charge from the max power of the charging station it has to be divided so you have a longer charge plus the through flow takes way longer than a filling station. You will have the same flow rate at a filling station no matter how many are filling up. The law of physics rules.
These cars are not actually sold. The majority will be on some form of leasing package. Smoke and mirrors come to mind.
Very low second hand values for EVs is one of the biggest problems. If there are breakthroughs in battery technology then the older EVs will be basically worthless
The global mean temperature is now 1.5 deg above pre industrial levels. We need EVs if our grandchildren are not to cook. It is that serious. EVs are essential.
Well done Labour, you might have put the final nail in the coffin of the British motor manufacturing industry. We will be turning Chinese! (Apologies to The Vapors' Turning Japanese lyrics.
The Chinese built "MG" is not the same company when it was British owned.
The EU import duty on Chinese made cars is a maximum of 35.3%. The duty depends on the level of unfair subsidization.
Tesla: 7.8%
BYD: 17.0%
Geely: 18.8%
SAIC: 35.3%
Dumb move from Labour. You can't force consumers to buy a product that is not fit for purpose.
Less emissions means colder weather, lucky you.
I will say there is now more of a interest in buying older cars over new ones now especially when you have Richard Hammond's daughter talking about buying a Range Rover from 2004. Other channels equally tend to be doing similar including some high profile channels. Sadly new cars aren't desirable enough for everyone to want now.
How can any move toward EV work when there is one charger at each Moto service station, charging 74p per Kw? Hopeless!
Watch the Mac Masters latest vid on his neighbours issue..
Nobody realises the increase in home insurance when owning one.. 😮
I couldn't care less what makes my car move as long as it's affordable, safe, functional, reliable and fun.
Unfortunately, EVs fall short of affordability and functionality.
I am openminded.
Cars registered is not the same as cars sold. A lot of those cars registered in 2024 have not been sold. They are on forcourts as pre-registered and passed straight to auction sites. Private buyers just aren’t buying EVs
The UK has no car companies; the very last, TECHNICALLY, mass production car company, was Morgan, which was sold to an Italian outfit, several years ago; what is left, is basically 2 guys in a shed, and they wont really be affected,
More expensive electricity is coming including tax to replace petrol tax
what about people with no EVs (or cars at all)
will they pay electricity+tax to replace petrol tax?
@@robertanton1862 Who knows, probably some more.
If the private buyer does not buy electric cars every European mass market car manufacturer and every dealer will go out of business by 2030
As you said in the video car makers need certainty not swopping back and fourth like most governments do. They work on a 5 to 7 year plan on new modals. As for the car buyer they would be prepared to try if it wasn’t for the anti Ev brigade trying to derail the plan like oil companies and Ev haters. The biggest problem with mass adoption is on street parking. Yes we could always won’t more chargers but you would be surprised how little you use them if you can charge at home.
A large part of the population can't charge at home. What about them?
@ that’s what I said was the stumbling block. There are ways we’re you have a channel in the pavement that the cable slots into from your house to the car. Some councils allow it others are undecided and say you need planning. There are charging posts that can be installed on pavements along with utilising street light posts. All of these things are in place under different councils around the country it just needs the government/ councils to get there act together. Flats are the bigger problem it would need a consent from the landlord to install changes. Failing that you would have to do what people have done for the last 80 years when they won’t / petrol /diesel go to a fuel station. In the case of electricity Go to a charging station of which there are way more of them than there are petrol stations believe it or not.
Its about digging up more of the planet and making money from that.
The government should not be forcing manufactures to building cars that people dont want,
that could change tomorrow tho, they will collapse the car industry with these ridiculous time tables.
The fine for not meeting targets is why auctions are full of EV's with extremely low as 10 miles apparently two owners tells a story, no one wants them there will be trouble ahead for the government and the WEF they govern by consent not dictatorship .We have battery vehicles low miles battery issues rejected warranties go figure
Although development of batteries etc is a good thing, it also reinforces weaknesses of today's technology. This is a main reason of stalling the market. We'll wait....
It’s ZEV you just miss-understood. Zero. Every. Vehicle mandate 🤦♂️👍✌️
Balderdash!
The solution/answer is to keep ICE vehicles an option and choice!
This is mad it's just costing people jobs in the car industry the Gov has lost millions in lost road tax