01-01-17, 11:31 PM
Possibly, or hydrogen fuel cells or something?!
Our government has commited us to reducing our Nitrogen Dioxide levels in the air. Apparently we're super bad, illegal levels around central London and Heathrow. (This is independant of the EU)
London transport are pushing to make all london taxis and buses electric, which will create a london vehicle charging network, next thing they'll introduce a london zone for electric vehicles only. This will drive the market (remember when they first introduced the congestion charging zone and the whole world went out and bought a prius, as they were free to enter at the time.)
Part of Heathrow airports bid for the extra runway was a commitment to make ALL vehicles servicing the airport electric vehicles. I seem to remember that being over a thousand vehicles!!!
They all have a lot of commitments to achieve by 2020 and I've heard a lot of people say 'this IS happening'.
I'm not sure how practical any of this is. I still always remember Boris Johnson harping on about how we all must go electric and this is the future. Jeremy Clarkson just said, "where does the electricity come from Boris?". To which Boris replied "erm... from the plug".
The logic is you burn gas in a power station, then transmit the electricity at great cost and inefficiency to the plug socket. When at the moment we just put the gas straight into our tanks! It's weird logic.
I thought the concept of the electric bikes at the TT was interesting. Although the bikes were so quiet there were often birds just sat in the road in front of the riders.
Our government has commited us to reducing our Nitrogen Dioxide levels in the air. Apparently we're super bad, illegal levels around central London and Heathrow. (This is independant of the EU)
London transport are pushing to make all london taxis and buses electric, which will create a london vehicle charging network, next thing they'll introduce a london zone for electric vehicles only. This will drive the market (remember when they first introduced the congestion charging zone and the whole world went out and bought a prius, as they were free to enter at the time.)
Part of Heathrow airports bid for the extra runway was a commitment to make ALL vehicles servicing the airport electric vehicles. I seem to remember that being over a thousand vehicles!!!
They all have a lot of commitments to achieve by 2020 and I've heard a lot of people say 'this IS happening'.
I'm not sure how practical any of this is. I still always remember Boris Johnson harping on about how we all must go electric and this is the future. Jeremy Clarkson just said, "where does the electricity come from Boris?". To which Boris replied "erm... from the plug".
The logic is you burn gas in a power station, then transmit the electricity at great cost and inefficiency to the plug socket. When at the moment we just put the gas straight into our tanks! It's weird logic.
I thought the concept of the electric bikes at the TT was interesting. Although the bikes were so quiet there were often birds just sat in the road in front of the riders.
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