Tax based on emissions - so expensive for big/fast cars!

[Ian S]

In the nanny state world of Health & Safety

I was thinking of light weight, not back and joints straining lead acid batteries and spanners being needed.

Batteries will evolve. Like we have for cordless tools now, Lithium Ion, weigh barely anything. So changing the ones to power a car may become easy and quick to do.

It might be a small pack on it's own wheels which drop out like Thunderbird two, floats away on a mag lev in the forecourt floor and the replacement floats into the car chassis and clamps itself in place whilst your paying the bill.

The spent battery then joins a queue of other batteries in the building and is contactlessly inductively charged as it passes toward the front, ready to be dispensed into the next car.

Friction free and with no mechanical parts to wear out and no need for a human other than perhaps taking the cash at the til.

[Trevhib]

Cool.

[Trevhib]

:they is a main motorway that goes from the eastside to the west side of the country(galway to dublin)distance would be like going from bham to blackpool roughley,and that is a brand new fresh part of the motorway,its like the uk aroads double dual carraige way,3 tolls and thats it,

What! Massive VED and massive fuel duty AND tolls!