UK Inches Closer To Eliminating Private Car Ownership

Soon, Brits will own nothing and will be happier for it…

UK Government Transport Minister Trudy Harrison recently spoke at a mobility conference, addressing the future of personal mobility. In her comments, she said it was necessary to ditch the "20th-century thinking centred around private vehicle ownership and towards greater flexibility, with personal choice and low carbon shared transport." That’s right, she said the quiet part loud and showed the hand of a growing number of government officials.

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Rhode57 · 56-60, M

Just had a thought .Soon most brits wont be able to afford a car any way .Their going all electric by 2030 and electric cars are still bloody expensive .Take into that they want everyone to have their own personal charger attached to their property costing a fortune , then they have to put in enough chargers all over the country to charge cars , in filling stations, carparks, on street parking etc .Where the hell are they gonna get all this extra energy to supply all these charging points and I think they havnt thought it out as that is only 8 short years away .

ArishMell · 70-79, M

@Rhode57 Unless things change, so far at least, "all electric" refers only to sales of new i.c.-engine cars from 2030.

The rest though, I agree totally. It has not been thought out at all. Ask most green campaigners and politicians the difference between power and energy and what is impossible about the latter, and they'd most likely be unable to do anything but gawp at you gone-out.

I won't have a car-charger in my home. No point. Apart from never going to be able to afford a battery-powered car, I am in the roughly half of the UK's motorists who have no parking space on own property. If I am lucky I can park in the street by my front gate, usually in the week when most of my neighbours are away at work.