I agree with flyingsniffer the prospect of only ever being a passenger in future cars is not something I look forward to. I also think in future we will be buying a service for transport (a smart/autonomous taxi service perhaps) rather than buying a car.

Here is a UK company that is developing a Hydrogen fuelled powertrain based vehicle with an innovative commercial model.

https://riversimple.com/

Sadly it would place high in the ugliest cars of time poll.



Quote Originally Posted by flyingsniffer View Post
My view is that 2030 will come and go, it will be many more years before every new car sold is an EV - that year was chosen by Boris to suck up to Biden and he knows he'll be long gone by then. However, it will come to pass - I run a Jaguar iPace as my daily and it's brilliant, so if they can sort the charging infrastructure out (look up Gridserve for a taste of what it would need to be like) and make them more affordable, then I'm all for it....in the context of an EV being an alternative powertrain.

However, being developed alongside EVs is autonomy and this will be the big sea change in 'driving fun'. Remember that Tesla with the steering yoke? How we all laughed. But then consider this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSWLPawtIWc and suddenly it all makes more sense. From next year, new models will have to have speed limiters that restrict you to the limit on every section of road and from 2023, on all new cars. New cars will become increasingly less fun and more managed. We'll probably need a Vaccine Passport to drive one!

So my view is that there will always be a nostalgic yearning for 'proper' cars, even more so than there is now.