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For those of you that drive petrol/diesel cars, can you see yourself moving to a hybrid or fully electric car anytime soon? If so - is that through choice?
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SW-User
I just hope that none of us are forced to have electric cars, they don't have the range for long journeys, the batteries wear out and then cost thousands of £ to replace, and if everyone in the UK switched to electric cars as a country we don't have the power capacity necessary to generate enough electricity to power them anyway.
UKNaturist · M
@SW-User I can see myself potentially going to a hybrid but not full electric. Apparently, no petrol/diesel cars will be sold new in the UK from 2040 onwards.
SW-User
@UKNaturist hybrid is a better alternative, but you then end up with two motors and consequently double the risk of engine problems and their associated repair bills
UKNaturist · M
@SW-User My main issue is that they talk about the electric car being a cleaner alternative to petrol/diesel but how much pollution is created in providing the electricity to power them?
SW-User
@UKNaturist exactly right. We will need to build more power stations which will probably have to be nuclear ones