Where are we heading with Diesel?

They are awesome to drive, just all power all the time. Auto-drive is spooky but works well. Build quality is still not quite up there and that, along with rear passenger space, would be issues for spending that sort of money.

I think I should clarify a few points. Yes with the existing technology we couldn't all plug into street lights. Obviously. The street lighting tech available now is adequate for the amount of cars wanting to utilise it. If more cars wanted to utilise it then we would see a change in how the power was delivered obviously. Of course this is just ONE of the ways cars could and are being charged. My point wasn't to labour street lighting as a silver bullet to cure everybody's charging needs, merely to point out people are creative when thinking about how to solve problems rather than moaning about we can't do this because of x,y,z.

Maybe we can't but there are literally hundreds of things people have said, 'It can't be done' and guess what......

Anyhow....... as per title, where we headed with diesel !!!! Not electric

And one more thing
How many times have we heard people living near electricity sub stations and living below power lines
Have contracted cancer/leaukimia etc??
It’s all government bull@@it
Of course it’s my own humble opinion of course

Not wishing to be argumentative, but that is just not true. The existing street lighting system could not support charging EVs in any sensible way at all. Sorry, but that's a fact.



I'm all for creativity, but changing the laws of physics goes a little beyond that I'd say. I wouldn't class acknowledging that fact as moaning, I just think you have to realise the scale of the challenge and be realistic about the chances of there being a "magic bullet" that will solve it easily and more importantly, cost-effectively. Sad to say but our world is run by bean-counters and if there's no profit in it, it probably won't happen.

Things I care about in the General section:
Cool retro cars
Shows and Events
Interesting retro related history
Retro Racing Cars of any sort
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THE GAMUT OF RETRO 'STUFF'
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Modern retro concepts
Electric retro cars
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JUST ABOUT EVERYTHING ELSE 'Retro' ON THE PLANET
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'Interesting' modern cars
General modern cars
Self driving cars
What the government is doing with modern diesel cars.


With that in mind I'm moving this to the Question Section and will find something more on topic for the general section, although I'm tempted to lock it and send everyone off to Pistonheads to talk about it.

www.greenfleet.net/news/16112017/ev-lamp-post-ev-charging-network-expand-across-kensington-and-chelsea


"A new £400 million charging infrastructure fund has also been announced, with a further £40 million available for EV charge point R&D."



www.greenfleet.net/news/16112017/islington-council-roll-out-diesel-parking-surcharge

What has annoyed me for many years and seems as though it is never going to change, is the politics and views of those who like to think they are in charge regarding councils, highways agencies and those other curse word that work in westminster, it's all very well them saying things such as 'We need to keep the country moving, we need to keep the cities wheels turning' blah blah blah
yet when you look at these 2 examples (without going into too much detail) we can see how we are constantly slowly wasting away as we hit out heads feet and hands against the brick wall!
1. Dear council, do you not think that by actually having bus stops that allow the bus/coach to pull OFF the road and not just a broken yellow line where the vehicle is still an obstruction to all other traffic passing in both directions?
They replied first of all with, Thank you for the enquiry and we will get back to you within 200 days (joke)
they later replied with... Thank you for contacting us, unfortunately we are not able to move the kerb stones further into the hedge line due to the land being private..........
I replied...and so who was the fool who actually decided to put this idea into place and the other fools who agreed it was a good idea? I heard nothing more.....

Later whilst stuck on an A road, the traffic was a mess with everyone trying to get off at a junction, therefore stopping the flow, but on my right was a sign 'Queues likely' So i emailed the highways agency and said, 'it seems to me that this sign has been here for many years, why have you not done anything about it?why are queues likely and why are they still obviously LIKELY you build more and more, no more width added to the roads, no more stretching the slip roads but build build and build houses, the basic math just does not work?

They replied 'we are constantly working to look at ways to help.......zzzzzzzzzz zzzzzzzzzzzzz i became bored soon after,

SO! my point is.... if we are to try and get anywhere in protesting to the 'powers that be' or to have a rant on forums whilst no other curse word is prepared to take notice because they don't want to, what chance do any of us stand when it comes to a subject such as diesels choking the country? now i know there are many issues to be brought up but i think we all know we will lose out in the end....... anyway! I'm listening to Crimbo tunes, then going out in my diesel truck, and going to get the back end out as much as i can for the next 3 hours! (better not be any buses on the road!)

Those points can be summed up nicely:

You can't please everyone.