#MOTORING IN IC ENGINES DRIVER#

The internal combustion engine of the car, while adaptable, versatile and ever-exciting, is a victim of its own success and survival.

A moment associated with a lost sepia world. It is something protected by specific time and space. The steam engine, its plume of smoke flying up above the cutting of the track, is an engineering wonder.

The car was always about freedom and independence and in fact the announcement today may herald a return to that principle. The underlying culture of the car will not be effected by zero emissions.

#MOTORING IN IC ENGINES DRIVER#

Electric cars held all land-speed records until 1900 and in 1903 the worldвЂ™s first speeding ticket was issued to the driver of an electric car hybrid. However letвЂ™s not forget, the history of electric cars was actually interrupted by the internal combustion engine. Sure they can put the noise of a petrol engine into an electric car for effect, but itвЂ™s unlikely it will ever hum and growl with the same almost feral power. So how will the life of the driver change if we go zero emission? Perhaps some romance will be lost. The Government is required to bring it back within legal limits as soon as possible and so there was always going to have to be some action against the most polluting cars. We know that something has to be done about our air pollution levels, as a result of EU law if nothing else. The Government has said for some time that it wants nearly all cars and vans to be zero emission by 2050. That may be the case, but it will not end the car or the culture that it made it so great. Some are already saying it heralds the end of the internal combustion engine in this country. The news today about the end of diesel and petrol cars by 2040 and potential penalties for the most polluting vehicles in locations across the country by 2020, was wholly expected. A Pontiac Firebird trying and failing to look unassuming

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