My thoughts on this are a mixed bag. First, naturally, is skepticism at far off dates. OOH, these things do really need time to work. OOH, the zero-emissions d

My thoughts on this are a mixed bag. First, naturally, is skepticism at far off dates. OOH, these things do really need time to work. OOH, the zero-emissions date is 2050, post-singularity Second is coordination. If the plan is "Once there are electric cars, we'll buy some." The industry's response will be "once it's cheap enough, we'll make some." That days seems to be coming anyway, but that really makes this a weak policy. My third thought is "industrial policy." That is, a policy that actually affects the availability and price performance of electric cars. If the policy is agreed, but doesn't meaningfully change what engineers are doing now, then it's not really affecting much. An actual industrial policy probably needs to act across a bigger market than UK only in order to actually affect timelines. All that said, I like it. A ban bootstrapped by cross subsidies is a far better way to go than carbon consumption taxes.