Today Range Rover Jaguar are to announced a huge investment of hundreds of millions of pounds in building their cars in electric form:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-48875406
Opti will be still able to buy a Jag for hopefully many years to come
2040 is a long time away, but I feel sure the commercial sector will be doubling their efforts to meet the new challenges of going electric, and the Government will have to respond to fully aid this process - once Brexit is out of the way!
Do not forget the railways went from 125 miles in 1830 to over 10,000 miles in 1860, and that involved massive engineering with simple tools and brut force. So the project to electrify our vehicles with all the technology, developing fast, and create the infrastructure required within the next 21 years is more than possible.
The revolution has already started, and for our young it will be a reality and they will laugh at us and our internal combustion engines
Yes......things can move on very quickly once a direction of travel is decided upon.
I recently read that only 10 years ago renewable energy contributed to only 1% of our energy needs. So almost insignificant.
A decade on the figure is around 20% and rising. Use of coal is now almost zero.
Exactly, and that is how the human race advances does it not. Nothing stays the same as we all want to evolve, although when I am swearing at the IT stuff that does not work as it should for me, I HATE it!!
The young take over from the old, in both human and technological terms. We cannot stop it.
As I stated elsewhere, all the challenges we face now with electric generation, electric storage, and electric distribution, will be resolved due to man's creativity and desire to win!
I have loved being on the footplate of many a steam railway engine, but I have loved the thrill of driving a full blooded internal combustion engined car. The future generations will occasionally, no doubt, have the pleasure of both those things, but still love their Tesla automatically zooming them at tremendously high speeds in complete, and utter silence, with traffic management systems that have eradicated being stuck for hours in many mile traffic jams; oh, yes, don't we enjoy them, NOT!!