Cars have been white goods for 20 years now. Cars as a reflection of your lifestyle, or an extension of ‘who you are’ has been on the wane for at least a decade - helped along by the shrinking number of actual manufacturers and the difference, or lack of, between them - everyone knows an Audi is a Skoda is a Seat is a VW. Car enthusiasts are a shrinking and aging minority, ditto anyone who cares about the freedom that driving (driving anything) gives you which is why no one one will really complain when non-autonomous cars are outlawed... which won’t be long after the electric takeover anyway....
The newest car I ever bought was 6 years old...
All of the above is why I’m finding it hard to be surprised or care too much about this news...
But I would like it if people - especially your under 30s - would realise the lie that even if every car in the world went electric, this ain’t gonna save the world* and in fact it’s pi55ing in the wind with regard to climate change unless global population stops growing, AND we stop making more and more useless sh1t to throw away and replace every 5 minutes...
(*Less than one quarter of uk total greenhouse gas production coming from ALL transport, including freight...how much of that from cars? Less than half again? That would be conservative looking at how much fuel trucks gets through... So, one eighth? Repeated globally? Wake up and drink your fair trade coffee, kids...... But remember to put the cup in the green bin, so your council can freight it to Asia and landfill it)