I was in a Toyota Auris Hybrid Taxi last week, the driver gets 900 miles to £45 of petrol!!!!!!!!!!!
It's self regenerating so when the engine kicks in it also charges the batteries
Here we go again, bleeding hearts trying to stop people dying.
The biggest problem the world faces is the exponential growth in population.
just Thurs or Friday BBC news went on about new research shows nitrous oxide emissions form modern diesel cars puke out more than twice what 40t artic put out !!!
They will be gone from new sales within 2 years. And scrapped from the road completely within 5 years in UK and Europe. That's 15 years too late. These things are killers and should be banned instantly
VAG already saying all small diesel now cost more to make than they get back and are giving up.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/201...-produce-double-amount-toxic-gas-new-lorries/
A road in Brixton has already exceeded it legal annual total pollution for the whole of 2017 after just 4 days.
Dame Sally Davies, the government’s chief medical officer, said last month diesel cars should be phased out to cut the tens of thousands of deaths caused each year from air pollution.
2. Introduce a health passport ... if you are British and have paid into the system (by paying taxes) you and your familty get a NHS card! No card no admittance!
Or you pay in advance an extortionate rate..... really cream it.
That may be true, but do you have any idea of how much DIESEL is used in digging up half of Africa to make the battery packs for electric cars, let alone the damage to the environment of digging huge opencast pits to get the ore out. And then theres the need for increased electricity usage for recharging (which increases pollution, increases the mining etc etc). Its all ****** madness!!
Might be a nice idea but no way could any government remove diesel cars from the road in 5 years.
Any party proposing that signs its death certificate.
Only Jeremy Corbin would be stupid enough to propose it.
Personally I dont like the sound they make, but I do admit the C270 CDI [now sold] I inherited from my mum did go jolly well ... very nice torque. But I hated the noise on start up, even at 17,000 miles. But it did 43 mph even when pushed jolly hard.
I just wouldnt buy one ... and I guess fear of a huge tax band will put people off.
Funny I remember folks saying how good they were, and a low fuel tax, then all of a sudden they are killers! :-/
If we really gave a dam about the ecology, we would ban all products made in China and India where pollution is totally out of control. I also wonder how much deisel is used pushing a 2 mile long cargo tanker from China to the UK?
I listen to all this PC Bull****, and wonder when we will actually get a politician to run this country properly.
E.g. How do you sort out the NHS? ... real simple. Make it illegal for any politically elected official to use Private health care.
They would sort out the NHS in one Week! You betcha!
How ... ****** easy ...
1. cancel all overseas aid
2. Introduce a health passport ... if you are British and have paid into the system (by paying taxes) you and your familty get a NHS card! No card no admittance!
Or you pay in advance an extortionate rate..... really cream it.
3. Put all and I mean all the money into the NHS and Care at home ( so hospital beds are not filled by people who are ready to go home!
Those 2 factors alone would give us state of the art Hospitals, world class service and treatment and a zero wait time.
At least they have finally managed to make it a bit smaller
So how about people like me who are not British but have lived here since 1988 and contributed an extortionate rate in advance (called tax @40% for almost all those years)?
Or British people who have lived abroad all their life, return to the UK for healthcare and depart again?
Not to mention the myriad of permutations based on parents and grandparents and the right to abode they can bring....
That's only because you don't want to run 4000hp in your car
Daventy would.....
That may be true, but do you have any idea of how much DIESEL is used in digging up half of Africa to make the battery packs for electric cars, let alone the damage to the environment of digging huge opencast pits to get the ore out. And then theres the need for increased electricity usage for recharging (which increases pollution, increases the mining etc etc). Its all ****** madness!!
So how about people like me who are not British but have lived here since 1988 and contributed an extortionate rate in advance (called tax @40% for almost all those years)?
Or British people who have lived abroad all their life, return to the UK for healthcare and depart again?
Not to mention the myriad of permutations based on parents and grandparents and the right to abode they can bring....
I just got my "voluntary to display" energy efficiency sticker through the post for my car (in Spain they're sending them to everyone)...it was rated F and therefore I may like to "think about a more energy efficenct and sustainable vehicle".
Funny my housemate with her 2009 TDi VW Caddy van got one through with a B rating and a "congratulations on having an efficient vehicle and participating in a sustainable transport future".
She's never got more than 35mpg even on a run whereas mine will do 55mpg if careful. Sure mine has no cat etc so does pollute a lot more but in terms of energy efficency and sustainability what could actually beat a 30yr old car (which could well last another 30 years) that is capable of 55mpg??