If you've not seen the news today, it's worth noting that Volvo have announced from 2019 all the cars they sell will come as standard with electric motor, power trains. Not necessarily all electric but, some fully electric and some hybrid, they won't be making any new combustion cars after 2019, when reading around this, I note that after 2021 the emissions standards will be so high that the total average CO2 emission across the fleet of manufacturers sales will not be able to produce more than 95g/km of CO2.
Earlier this week tesla announced the model 3 has passed all its tests and allowing it to go into full scale production this month.
All of he big manufacturers are signalling a shift to hybrid or full electric.
The car that Richard Hammond crashed in a few weeks back, an all electric hyper care capable of smashing a Ferrari La Ferrari, having done a little reading a round this, is capable of some incredible feats and still returns a reasonable range on a single charge and has fast charging capabilities.
Given the above it now seems likely that we are rapidly heading towards an all electric world in the next 5 years or so and by the end of the 2020s combustion engines will be as current as a Betamax video tape.
What do you think about this? Do you object to the loss of raw power and throaty engine tones, or are you excited about what the future holds?
Earlier this week tesla announced the model 3 has passed all its tests and allowing it to go into full scale production this month.
All of he big manufacturers are signalling a shift to hybrid or full electric.
The car that Richard Hammond crashed in a few weeks back, an all electric hyper care capable of smashing a Ferrari La Ferrari, having done a little reading a round this, is capable of some incredible feats and still returns a reasonable range on a single charge and has fast charging capabilities.
Given the above it now seems likely that we are rapidly heading towards an all electric world in the next 5 years or so and by the end of the 2020s combustion engines will be as current as a Betamax video tape.
What do you think about this? Do you object to the loss of raw power and throaty engine tones, or are you excited about what the future holds?