Category: Vehicle Emissions – Discussion

Average prices have increased for 17 consecutive months.

James Fossdyke reported on uk.motor1.co.uk website that the growth in the value of used cars has doubled in just three months amid supply shortages in the new car market, according to new data. Figures released by online used car marketplace Auto Trader show the average price of a used car hit £15,288 in August, marking 17 consecutive months of increases.

The Auto Trader data, which is based on analysis of around 900,000 used cars, shows price growth hit an all-time high in August, with a 17.2-percent increase in prices compared with the same month in 2020. That’s more than double the growth recorded in May, when prices were up by more than eight percent.

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The Daily Express reported on 27/04/2022 that the Government’s Chief Science Adviser (Sir Patrick Valance) laid out a path to tackling global warming yesterday that included eating less meat, cycling to work and flying less. But he said the idea that everyone should buy an electric vehicle was “totally impossible”.

He told the House of Lords Environment and Climate Change Committee: “It’s all very well to talk about buying an electric car, but it’s totally impossible for the vast majority of the population.”

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In ‘tom’s guide’ on 10th April 2021, Tom Pritchard wrote a piece about his experience with a Nissan Leaf on a 250 mile round trip for his brother’s wedding. It makes for an eye opening read as he says “Needless to say that car sucked up power like the worst gas-guzzler. And it started pretty much straight away.”

“I picked a service station 74 miles into the journey, and figured half an hour would be more than enough time to give my battery the necessary pick me up. What I didn’t count on was the fact the Leaf’s range estimate doesn’t account for the fact I’d be driving at 70 miles per hour, the speed limit on British motorways.”

“It’s a good thing I’d already planned out my recharge break in advance, because that battery hit the 20% mark a couple of minutes before I reached the station. My car claimed that would only have taken me an extra 33 miles, though I imagine it would have been less considering how my power reserves had been depleting.”

Going electric sounds more like going out of business to me??

You can read the full article here: https://www.tomsguide.com/news/i-used-an-electric-car-to-drive-to-my-brothers-wedding-and-barely-made-it

According to a piece in Auto Express online on 10 Dec 20, “Car makers warn electric car plans are far removed from reality“.

They said that “European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association calculates if EU targets of 30 million EVs by 2030 are to be met, their numbers must rise by almost 5,000%”!

Auto Express reported that “To meet the target, set for just nine years in the future, that those 615,000 EVs rise in number to 30 million, the ACEA highlights that close to a 50-fold increase in numbers would be required. That’s equivalent to a 4,778 per cent rise in the number of electric cars on the road.”

And that “The ACEA also warns that it considers a further three million public chargepoints will be required by 2030 to reach these goals from the 200,000 points that existed in 2019. That means a 15-fold increase is needed to bridge the gap.”

It seems the piece highlights what we are probably all scratching our heads about, and wondering who is going to have to pay for all this?!

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