Quite. though for many people not having a car results in massively hobbling them and that cannot be reasonable or sustainable behaviour - it’s certainly not a vote winner either. I was chatting to a Grandparent earlier today, they would be driving sixty miles today on school runs. At one time a public service bus was available for the school run, but it no longer is. The children go to the next nearest town because our own schools here are poor, there are worse though.Tangled Metal wrote: ↑14 Nov 2022, 9:05pm Forgot to say, the greenest car n is the one you don't get! If you get one then IMHO you should pay tax whatever n you want to call that tax doesn't matter. What matters most is to encouraging lower vehicle ownership through various push pull methods. Higher tax on vehicles through to making alternatives work better and a culture change. Pipedream that is.
If we want to get people out of their cars then the best way to do so is by making public transport so attractive than no sane person would want to get about in their own car.
Next up is getting people out of big cars (whether electric or fossil fuel) and into ones that provide essential mobility. We need to cap the size, weight and power of cars.
The thought that EV’s are the only way to go hides their downsides; if I buy another car within the next few years then it’ll likely be something small, something second hand and something with a small petrol engine. I might be wrong but I reckon that a modern IC engine car is good for 20 years and 200,000 miles of use and that’s at least two sets of very expensive batteries for an electric vehicle.
Taxing Electric cars makes sense, well it does once you take the hype away and realise that they are luxury items sold to the well off.