No Petrol Cars by 2020?
No Fuel
Imagine if there were no gas-guzzlers on the street, if all the internal combustion cars were scrapped and there would be only electric and hybrid cars available to purchase. Sounds like a scene from “5th Element”? However, this is a vision of British Prime Minister Gordon Brown. He cannot hide his enthusiasm in making Britain the leader of electric car manufacturing. Some time ago Mr Brown made a promise that by 2020 all cars sold in the UK would be either electric car models or hybrid cars. What about other alternative means of energy?
Other countries but especially British population has shown a big sarcastic grin towards the brave plans of the government. Something is not quite right there. Vision is one thing but how about scrupulous calculations and a strict action plan? Do we have it? Oh, well…
Is it possible that the society would change this much that the industry would have no other option but to change too? The switch to a complete new source of energy for motoring is inevitable. Because the Earth is not producing any more oil and we have already consumed almost everything she had for us. The problem is that 2020 is so very close - it’s just 11 years.
Although the author somewhat shares the vision of our current government, there is a “but”… and that is: if we continue talking (and visualising) about our green motoring future but do nothing to create initiatives for the manufacturers, we will still be running on petrol, or rather petrol vapors, in 2020.
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