Current Events > Petrol cars will be illegal in 2035

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Here is the source to that claim: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-51366123

People will only be able to buy electric or hydrogen cars and vans, once the ban comes into effect.

For vehicles now there seems to be progress, it was going to be left until 2040 but they believe it will be too late. So they moved it up to 2035.


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i wonder what happens to the poor chap who buys a gasoline car in 2034.

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Good

That's what I like to hear

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what about cheese?

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I like the spirit of these sort of measures, but unless electric cars start to drop in price until they're the equivalent of a 10 year old Civic, this is going to make it financially impossible for a lot of poor people to afford a car.

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Doom_Art posted...

Good

That's what I like to hear

Same here anything that helps the environment and improve the quality of health is good news. At one point coal was legal for chimney, which did a lot of harm. There was times in London the smog was so bad that it was really thick making it hard to see. Many thousands of people died from smog, especially when the weather was really cold and many people used coal. The smog could cause people to have health problems.

Now you don't see coal used in houses anymore. That became illegal.

Now if only cigerette smoking becomes illegal that would be great. Since they harm the user and the people around them.

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will people still be around in 2021?

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s0nicfan posted...

I like the spirit of these sort of measures, but unless electric cars start to drop in price until they're the equivalent of a 10 year old Civic, this is going to make it financially impossible for a lot of poor people to afford a car.

Seeing that every car company will have to stop making petrol cars and make their vehicles electric or hydrogen, then surely there will be cheap company that makes cheap cars.

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supermichael11 posted...

Seeing that every car company will have to stop making petrol cars and make their vehicles electric or hydrogen, then surely there will be cheap company that makes cheap cars.

unless you see a huge upswing in hydrogen fueling station construction, fuel cell cars will never really take off.

as for electric, well right now battery components are going to be the limiting factor. someone will have to invent better batteries with more readily available base material before its really viable.

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How is big oil gonna stop this?

monkmith posted...

unless you see a huge upswing in hydrogen fueling station construction, fuel cell cars will never really take off.

as for electric, well right now battery components are going to be the limiting factor. someone will have to invent better batteries with more readily available base material before its really viable.

At first there won't be many hydrogen fueling station, which is normal. When a new petrol is added that petrol is rare at first then it will get added everywhere. What about when petrol cars didn't exist? Surely at one point petrol station was rare, until may years.

As years progress hydrogen station will increase. As for the battery component of the electric cars, they have 15 years to make huge improvement. I don't know why they haven't invented solar energy to recharge the car and absorb electricity to the car.

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ffmasterjose posted...

How is big oil gonna stop this?

They can't and once there are no petrol vehicles then petrol will be useless. They will either need to change their business to hydrogen and electric cars or shut down.

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The key factor to getting hydrogen cars off the ground would be to convince, or force, currently existing gas stations to offer hydrogen stations and eventually let those replace the gas stations out right.

It'd take a lot of capital, time, and space to set up brand new hydrogen stations

Hydrogen cars exist?

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Good.
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MrResetti posted...

Hydrogen cars exist?

yes. fuel cell cars are rare, and i think only one or two of the big automakers are developing them, but they're still a thing. and hell, you can convert a diesel engine to run on hydrogen gas if you want.

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seems like cross country trips in the car would be a thing of the past once electric cars are the norm

This is in the UK, I don't see it happening that soon in the states
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Great news
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Thought it said patrol cars, and I was very concerned Id be walking a beat.

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This isn't helping the problem all that's going to happen is more coil is going to be used to generate electricity. Until we go nuclear then having electric vehicles is the same has driving a gas car.

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As you have said "petrol" I'm assuming you mean in the UK.

For me this is like gun ownership. I see the benefit of banning such things but there are tons of cool cars that are going to be illegal after that point.

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Slaya4 posted...

This isn't helping the problem all that's going to happen is more coil is going to be used to generate electricity. Until we go nuclear then having electric vehicles is the same has driving a gas car.

sadly there's still a huge amount of public pressure against nuclear.

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Illegal to buy, not to own. I'll hang onto mine. Cheaper gas would be awesome!

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Ya'll really think there's gonna be a 2035?

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So it'll be similar to the show Motorcity? Cool

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ClunkerSlim posted...

Well. I mean, time doesnt stop.

2035 isn't time, its a transient measurement humanity created. if human civilization ends, then 2035 will never happen.

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monkmith posted...

2035 isn't time, its a transient measurement humanity created. if human civilization ends, then 2035 will never happen.

Sure it will, the sun still rises and sets every day regardless of human tracking.
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