U.K. Moves to End Sales of All Non-Electric Cars by 2035

popular mechanics via malaysia news yahoo ^ | 6 February 2020 | Mike Duff

[RomanSoldier19]

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced a plan to ban sales of gasoline- and diesel-powered passenger cars in the U.K. beginning in 2035. That's five years earlier than a previous commitment by the U.K., and it also adds even hybrid vehicles to the banned list, leaving only full electric cars as an option. There were 2.3 million passenger cars sold in the U.K. in 2019—and only 37,850 of them were electric vehicles.

[RomanSoldier19]

These are cobalt mines in Congo, where 60% of cobalt for batteries comes from, environmentally friendly.

Luckily Congo gov will run it all now yay

DR Congo to support cobalt prices by buying 'artisanal' supply The Financial Times|6 days ago The Democratic Republic of Congo will create a state-owned company to buy all the cobalt mined by hand in the country, in an effort to support the price of the key battery material used in electric cars. The government said it wants to "control the entire value chain" of the informal mining sector in order to boost state revenues ...

https://www.ft.com/content/90d2116a-4437-11ea-a43a-c4b328d9061c

[Boogieman]

This is not going to go well for the UK.

[riverrunner]

correct

[Buckeye McFrog]

and Boris is what passes for a Conservative in Britain these days.

[Bonemaker]

The Brits sure love them some bans. Even Johnson...who supposedly is the closest thing they have to Trump...is a puss. I think the Queen would tell him to shove it.

[redshawk]

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jan/05/cutting-cobalt-challenge-battery-industry-electric-cars-congo

[Midwesterner53]

Idiot UK policies are not limited to Labor it seems.

[Vaquero]

Ah. Coal powered. Neat!

[Bob434]

good luck finding mechanics to work on these- all the old school mechanics mostly won’t work on them-

[moovova]

We're pretty sure we know what everyone in the U.K. will be riding by 2035...

[dpetty121263]

The Sun has set on the British empire...

[rktman]

Just when you thought.......Grasping defeat from the jaws of victory. Grrrrrrreta will be so proud. Fookin’ Idjits!

[samtheman]

Why are they hand-mining the cobalt? Why don’t they use gasoline powered earth moving equipment?

[mass55th]

I watched a TV series titled “The Widow” starring Kate Beckinsale. A large part of the program took place in the Congo, and the corruption that occurs in the mining of cobalt. I can’t remember exactly that the mining shown in the program was for cobalt, or for some other imaginary material, but it was a pretty powerful program, and I hadn’t thought about it until I saw the photo, and your comment.

[BobL]

BREXIT is great, but Johnson is still a Leftist, as many people here warned (not me, as I didn’t know either way).

[Ingtar]

Now he needs to learn the wonders of GWexit.

[ctdonath2]

Cheaper to use starving people.

[samtheman]

And the electric car buyers feel good about that?

[Sergio]

People are adaptable, they will do like is done in Cuba and they will have 40 year old cars with boat engines modified to fit.

Unintended consequences. What will be done with all the no longer needed fuel stations and who gets to pay for the disposal of the underground fuel tanks? Not to mention the same but larger scale issues at unneeded refineries.

What about the hit to employment when those working at said fuel stations and refineries are unemployed.

Oh, and where will the power come from to charge up said vehicles? As cloudy as Great Briton is, solar is not really an option. Is the electrical grid ready for every house plugging in a car off of a 220-240V feed for the entire evening?

This has not been thought through.

[Secret Agent Man]

They can’t handle all those cars plugged in on regular 110/120v chargers for 6-8 hours overnight. Most american neighborhoods couldn’t handle this. The transformers are undersized and depend on cooldown periods overnight when peoples electricity usage is typically very low.