The only diesel I’ve had was back in 2003, a Freelander, which was good because that was the BMW diesel engine.
My only beef with them is what comes out the tailpipe in regards to fumes and particulates. I know newer ones are better but still a bit of a polluter…
I laugh when the government told everyone not to buy diesel that’s after telling everyone TO buy diesel and find road tax on diesels a fraction of their petrol counterparts. What’s that all about then?? When there’s stability then I’ll consider to buy a stable product but only IF it’s fit for purpose.
A fair point, but we’re small beer compared to aviation and energy. A 747 will have polluted more than a year of my driving by the time it gets to the end of the runway, for thòse of you doing long haul flights 
Even Sadiq Khan is happy to look the other way for a mere £12.50 a day…
Leave long haul flights out of this… my daughter and grandchildren are in New Zealand!! 
It’s a tricky subject, yet we all know the government is getting it wrong.
Good fun to discuss though.
The UK is 17th in the world for CO2 emissions and the output from cars is only a small portion of that. Our total CO2 output is only 1% of that of the Chinese so making us change to EVs is just a load of bollotics. If the world wants to make meaningful reductions then the biggest emitters need to curb their output, the rest is just pissing in the wind.
I was thinking something similar - watch any travel programme on TV, say, South America (or North America for that matter) or many parts of Asia, look at the huge cities, busy traffic, the love of air conditioning, and it is obvious that we are just a small pebble in a huge pond!
It’s the punitive nature that riles me, forced to do as they say… or face consequences!!! But as @Littleade says… my lifetime’s direct contribution to putting the world into grave danger is fuck all in ANY giant piss pot!!!
I recommend that every single one of the JSO protesters climb aboard some giant rowing boat and fuck off to China and glue themselves to the Great Wall!!!
China, Russia, India and the VS can make a difference. Let’s start there.
The Chinese and Yanks are the biggest emitters by a country mile and are responsible for 45% of the world’s output !
The thing that worries me most about EV’s is the life expectancy of the batteries. Lithium batteries just don’t last very long - 10 years if you’re lucky? The performance of the battery will also start to tail off after a few years until it dies completely. The cost of replacing the battery pack in a ten year old car won’t be financially viable, so are we expecting to have to write EV’s off after 10 years or so?
Perhaps that explains the horrendous depreciation they seem to suffer from, nobody wants a used one because it’s going to be unusable in a few years.
Plus the rare metals they mine for them… not mined by Earth sparing methods!
It’s a perfect storm. The cost to charge at public charging stations can work out more than an ICE and unless you have a Telsa the charging network is patchy at best, it’s new technology so many are cautious to start with and poor range compared to ICEs, especially diesels is another negative and having to rely on public chargers on a long journey can be problematic as well as taking a lot longer (if you can find one). Add in the extra cost to buy compared to ICEs and the poor residuals and it’s easy to see why most EVs are being bought/leased by business users not private buyers. EV batteries don’t fair well if charged over 80% capacity so if you were buying an EV used what are you chances of getting one that’s had the battery looked after.
Until a Universal Interchangeable Battery is the new normal I dont see a future that is anything more than, fostering, this fashionable imposter, to the market.
My take on a “new tomorrow” that offers an alternative to the over use of earth resources, for a, non car producer, like the British Isles, would be the removal of PRIVATE transport, and an explosion of public transport.
Wouldn’t even miss it that much…as long as we were all the same.
Unlike a modern mobile phone which tells you the health of the battery, EV’s don’t which is one of the reasons dealers hammer the seller on price.
I bought a hybrid in Feb this year, it had very little to do with saving the planet and very much about saving on mpg as I have changed job location so had a much longer weekly commute to deal with…plus where else can I get 276bhp out of a 1.3 engine 