What I’d like to know is, when they finally do this, however long it’ll take, what will happen to all the lovingly restored vintage & veteran cars that people have collected over the years? Will they all be confined to museums never to be allowed the freedom of the road ever again? I presume there will no longer be fuel stations, as we know them, they will all be for the electric cars.
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I have a feeling that the day when petrol and diesel fuel stations no longer exist is some way away yet but yes, I suppose that like vintage steam engines and many other things the few by-then-vintage cars that are powered by such fuels that remain will indeed probably be consigned to the remainder of their lives in museums or similar.
I wonder if many will survive?
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The steam engines can still work, they have either their own tracks, sometimes they even use the line here on special journeys. I guess though diesel & coal will be banned so that will be an end to those too. I am glad my time is nearly over, this World will be a very different place in the decades to come, if we haven’t destroyed it by then.
It is very sad, about the old cars. I love seeing the old cars driving around when out. Not just the very old ones either, all those beautiful sports cars as well.
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It is sad and I love seeing older cars of all types too.
I’m surprised when I see that some of the cars I grew up with for example there sometimes aren’t very many left at all, like the Austin Princess or the old Vauxhall Viva (as opposed to the modern version) both of which have under a dozen left on UK roads.
The Ford Escort mkII Mexico which I had one of as a youngster only numbers 10 licensed on the roads today which does seem a shame because it was a great car in its day, so I’m not sure that what enthusiasts there are will save much of todays examples.
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The band Rush foresaw this very issue years ago.
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I have a 1959 ex Police motorcycle & prior to his death a few years ago, my wifes grandfather had a reasonable collection of vintage bikes. One of which, a 1930’s Scott flying squirrel, he had owned from new.
I cannot imagine life without real motorcycles.
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My guess there will be a fuel (maybe like the Nitro model planes fly on) which the cars can be converted to, it will cost about £20.00 per gallon, but, because these machines do so few miles, it won’t matter.
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And it will be bought from a retail outlet, not a service station.
Also, a vehicle will have to be a certain age at the time of the fossil fuel ban, to be considered a classic.
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I have never heard of Rush, but they are a good band, just been listening to some of their other music.
Can motorcycles be made to run on electric too?
Late OH converted his model planes to electric, due to complaints. He said it was never the same as fueled flight.
No idea at the moment. I have one of those ‘beautiful sports cars’ in my garage, if I make it over the next 14 years or so, 2035 I believe is when that kind of fuel is no longer, I will let you know.
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Boris has set an aspiration, not a definite target.
We first need to get the electricity we need for all these vehicles and the charging points…
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Baz, I’ll very certainly not be here in 14 years. 
Having said that my Mother lived til she was 93, so maybe, but not likely.
Yes, that’s true.
Providing all that is something I cannot see happening or if it does there are going to be so many people who just cannot afford this new way of motoring, especially retirees and there will be even more of those by then. Plus of course think of the problems there are going to be with disposal of all the thousands of cars that are not electric!
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Good point, Baz.
And that is just what they expect to happen Swim, they know there won’t be enough electricity to to supply all the requirements, and between that, and as Baz says, the cost of running an electric car will be prohibitive to most. At £6000 a piece who is going to afford a new battery after ten years, and imagine buying a second hand electric vehicle and getting hit with having to buy a new battery. It’s going to put a lot of people off the road, and all in the name of saving the planet. And also lithium and especially cobalt are rare earth minerals and not as plentiful as
oil and natural gas. Disposal could also be a problem and companies able to dispose of old batteries or even recover some useful materials are very thin on the ground. This is the beginning of the end of motoring as we know it…
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I will be past worrying about it in ten years time even if I’m still above ground .
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I visited my area main hospital this morning for pre-op heart scans and I specifically took note of all the cars as I toured the car park looking for a free space. Again I did so after parking on my way to the main entrance and I did not see a single all-electric vehicle. A very small number of hybrids, but not one all-electric. Me thinx the government has not been getting it’s message over. It cant be a price thing as Chichester is what I’d call an affluent area, so it must all be down to preference.
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