All New Cars Should Be Electric
A new study by the Oireachtas Committee into Climate Change is calling on the UK government to set more ambitious targets on increasing the use of electric vehicles. New electric cars are seen as environmentally friendly, leaving virtually no pollution and, still, able to cover long distance and offer comfortable travelling standards. The committee also would like to see the project fast-tracked to ensure all new cars on sale by the year 2020 are electric. Such action would also stimulate operations of establishments that convert fuel cars into electric ones.
If new regulations were to come into force, some users liking their current models would have to go and simply change their engines from fuel to electric. There are some car producers already offering new electric cars, such as “Lightning” for example, but prices of such models are still pretty high. If electronic and hybrid power cars were set standard by 2020, their price would have to become affordable and this, in turn, would have to make car producers reduce prices of current new cars with fuel engines. As it is in case of any technological change - there will surely be some for whom such a shift may not pay off or who will simply not like it. But here also the environmental topic is at stake.