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If the UK is going to meet its targets for carbon emissions reduction, then 100% of vehicles on UK roads need to be electric by 2030. As I live in the UK it would be great to see Mayor Boris Johnson setting a date of 2016 for L.O.V.E London. I propose a phased plan whereby you are allowed to drive your conventional or hybrid vehicle for a further two years until 2018, but you would have to pay a premium to do so. After 2018, it is pure electric vehicles only. By then we will have the product available and the price of batteries should have fallen sufficiently to make no real difference in cost between conventional and electric vehicles. Think how amazing our cities would be without the air and noise pollution. This trajectory would enable us to make it 100% electric everywhere in the UK by 2030.
We need our most visionary and bold municipal leaders to start thinking big because it is apparent - if the continued squabbling at Cancun is anything to go by - that our political heads of state are incapable of delivering the frameworks and nudges required to head off disastrous climate change.
If you like the idea and would like to help me get it off the ground, please get in touch.
