If your new hybrid doesn’t do 40 miles on electric only. Your banned

[eman]

To run along side the banning of diesels in 2040 someone in Power has come up with this idea now. That would put britains top seller the Pryus out then as it only does 30 miles on a single charge still the manufacturers have 22 years to sort the batteries out.

 

[LostKiwi]

That actually makes sense. It stops token hybrid cars being manufactured just to get around the regulations.

 

[Craiglxviii]

Dammit. There goes my idea down the tubes, the chumps.

Bl00dy politics!

 

[Frontstep]

These arbitrary dates for the ending of this this that or the other are just that and will flutter in the political wind.
Besides my youth might have invented some perpetual motion machine by then, he better had I need my nursing home fees paid and I won't be staying in some urine pit.

 

[Jkh112]

I agree with Lostkiwi, this rule would ensure hybrids do have a useable range.
If it is 40 miles then that is only slightly more range than current hybrids and there is a long time for battery technology to improve.

 

[geraldrobins]

To run along side the banning of diesels in 2040 someone in Power has come up with this idea now. That would put britains top seller the Pryus out then as it only does 30 miles on a single charge still the manufacturers have 22 years to sort the batteries out.

Its petrol and diesel cars that the ban is proposed for in 2040.

 

[Noelmc]

Compliance cars, take a existing design, put a electric motor in the gearbox casing, stuff a few batteries into the bottom of the boot. Electric power designed to last the time it takes to do the testing. And hey presto you have a car that according to the test, has a huge range with minimal emissions.
Just another way round the rules. Now the rules have changed to real world driving testing, I see most of the models with the above DNA have been ditched anyway. These types of cars will be a distant memory in 20 years time.

 

[Frontstep]

Have you any plans ?

I am poised with my Dyson digital motors and a bumper box of rechargeable AA's

 

[3146bj]

What is the definition of a car? Does it include small tray type vehicles (utes in Oz) like Toyota Hi-Lux, Mitsubishi Tritons, or Mercedes X Class used by tradesmen? Haven't seen any hybrid versions of these yet nor any HGV's, the main users of diesel. It seems like an on the run political decision, so they can be seen to be doing something and pandering to the vocal Green minority.

 

[JohnArnoldBrown]

My wife has a Toyota Auris hybrid. It has a tiny battery, and nowhere near 40 miles range(it's not plug-in anyway). The advantage is has over my (diesel)Merc(which will easilly match it on MPG on a motorway run) is that it recycles a lot of that energy that would be otherwise "wasted" as heat. The end result is that it has almost the same MPG round town as on the open road.

 

[Frontstep]

I looked again at one of Mr Musk's cars and found its fit and finish to be poor.
A cultural change will eventually push us dinosaurs into one of these Duracell cars as of yet which I do not know, its reminiscent of the early days of video recorders and the gut feeling that the new X around the corner will be the one to buy and not the W you are currently looking at.

 

[JohnArnoldBrown]

"it's reminiscent of the early days of video recorders and the gut feeling that the new X around the corner will be the one to buy and not the W you are currently looking at."

What actually happened was that the W was much better than the X, but everbody bought the X anyway, and when the Y came along, which was technically superior to both, it tanked.

 

[Frontstep]

So do I need a Betamax car a VHS, maybe a PVR or just wait to be shuffled around in a self driving MP4 ?