AUTO NEWS
Electric! The future is
or is it?
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any of you will have read with some sense of disbelief the recent announcement from the Government regarding the accelerated commitment of plans to ban carbon-emitting vehicles in the UK from 2030, meaning that we have less than a decade to enjoy New petrol and Diesel-powered cars.
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Registrations for pure EV in 2020 were up 130% on 2019 with over 200,000 now on our roads a lot of this has been driven by the tax advantages for business users and this trend is set to continue in 2021, so what does this mean for us die hard combustion engine fans? It is a new generation For those of us that are old enough to remember the 70's and 80's our Heroes were Porsche 911 turbos, Ferrari Testarossas and Lamborghini Countachs which were emblazoned on our walls, where are the EV heroes coming from?, I honestly can't see my teenage sons reaching for the Blutak to stick pictures of Teslas and Taycans on their walls, it is
a new generation and complete change of mindset that is required from here on in.
Quiet and echo-friendly path I drive a Jaguar I Pace Full EV as a daily driver, it's fast, comfortable, and quiet, and that's all I can say really as it has no emotion outside of that description, but that's the point I suppose it's not meant to be exciting, and this has been creeping up on us for quite some time with the manufacturers dropping Halo Hybrid models like the Mclaren P1 and Ferrari LA Ferrari on us slowly getting us used to the idea of the Battery Motor with massive torque being the answer. Fear not it’s not all doom and gloom, I’m sure we will not all disappear into a Mad Max or demolition Man type demise, scratching around wasteland looking for fuel, it will be some years until we are forced into this quiet and eco-friendly path because there will still be lots of cars available for us to enjoy, and who knows quite a few of us might enjoy doing 0-100 in half a second whilst being driven by the car and reading your emails, EV might just be the way forward ?
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June 2021
