How soon will you be driving an electric car?

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🗓️ 13 July 2018

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

How soon will you be driving an electric car? The Government laid out its Road to Zero plan this week, adding some detail to previous announcements on how it wants to drum petrol and diesel cars off our streets.

But is there enough in there to show how we will get from electric and hybrid cars currently making up a 2.2 per cent market share to 50 per cent by 2030?

From 2040, new cars running only on petrol and diesel won’t be able to be sold and a decade after that we’re all meant to go electric.

The crucial question though is what happens in the near future. How long before your next car is electric?

Simon Lambert, Lee Boyce and Georgie Frost look at what it will take to tempt us into electric cars, where they will be charged and how long their range needs to be for drivers to take them seriously.

They also look at how much a second-hand electric car might cost you.

Also on this week’s podcast, Lee reveals a savings trick that could get you a 7 per cent return on £1,000 and we ask whether fixing your mortgage for a decade is wise.

BT raising the cost of old email addresses to an astonishing £7.50 a month is also on the agenda.

And finally, football isn’t coming home (yet) but has England’s good run at the World Cup boosted the economy?

Enjoy.

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0:00.0	Welcome to This Is Money podcast in partnership with NS&I. I'm your host, Georgie Frost and joining editor Simon Lambert and I today is Consumer Affairs Editor Lee Boyce.
0:10.2	And coming up, Electric Dreams, are we on the road to zero or will we end up on a road to nowhere with the government's new car plans?
0:19.0	Also today, how much would you pay to keep your email address?
0:22.8	More cashly titled platforms to get us to make the most of our money,
0:26.5	from savings to mortgages.
0:28.0	Are you in it for the long or the short term?
0:30.7	And the World Cup may not be coming home,
0:32.7	but how long does football fever last in the economy?
0:36.0	Don't forget, you can stay up to date with all the latest
0:37.7	breaking money news. Just go to this ismoney.co.uk or download the app.
0:43.3	This is Money, brought to you in partnership with NS and I, where safer savings set you free.
0:50.5	But first after months of speculation, we now know what the government has in store to try and get the nation to ditch diesel and petrol and go electric.
0:58.6	The catchily, or not titled, the Road to Zero Strategy, sets out the policies that Ministers hope will get 45 million motorists into zero emissions vehicles over the next three decades.
1:10.5	They may be familiar with the 2040 proposed ban on new diesel and petrol car. motorists into zero emissions vehicles over the next three decades.
1:15.9	They may be familiar with the 2040 proposed ban on new diesel and petrol cars, but what else is in there and will it work?
1:18.9	A very warm welcome to you both.
1:20.1	Simon Fessie, Road to Zero, what was the point of this?
1:24.9	Well, the point is that the government has said that it wants to drum out the sale of
1:29.3	solely petrol and diesel cars by 2040.
1:33.3	And so at that point, we're going to be shifting towards non-internal combustion engineed vehicles,
1:40.3	which is basically looking like electric cars.
1:43.3	Unless something comes up between now and then
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