Did anyone seriously think 2030 would happen?
Sunak’s humiliating retreat from the 2030 ban on petrol and diesel was inevitable and Labour will follow suit
Back in 2016 the Energy Saving Trust lent me a Tesla Model S for a week. It was for a piece I was researching on decarbonisation. What a revelation. Not just the phenomenal acceleration— zero to 60 in 3.1 seconds—but the quality of the driving experience. No clutch and gears to worry about. You hardly needed to bother using the brake either. Regenerative breaking slowed the vehicle effortlessly whenever you took your foot off the accelerator. I loved it.
“This is the future” I wrote: “Internal Combustion is 19th century technology and is utterly redundant. It is absurd that we still rely on transport that pumps toxic gasses into city streets. The transition from fossil fuels will come faster than any one expects”.
How wrong I was.
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