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By Paul Homewood

The announcement by Volvo this week that all their new cars launched after 2019 will be either pure electric or hybrid has generated the usual hype about how electric cars will soon take over from petrol. For instance, the Daily Mail here

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I think you know my views (!), but let’s look at the UK sales figures:
YTD conventional cars still account for 96% of sales. Pure electrics only sell a putiful 0.5%.
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Volvo apparently sell about 47000 cars annually in the UK, just under half the total sales of alternative fuelled cars. Volvo have evidently set out to be the leaders in electric cars, and the numbers agree that this is possible.
However, does that mean that other manufacturers will necesarily follow?

It is still unquestionably the case that pure electric cars are still stuck on the starting line, because they cannot provide what most drivers require.
Which leaves us with much overrated hybrids.

Even the motoring correspondent of the BBC acknowledges this, when he admits:

The internal combustion engine is not dead – and won’t be for a while at least. It still offers a relatively cheap and well-proven means of getting around.