Is there no bright spark who can solve dilemma?
While reading Philip Nolan’s article about electric vehicles (MoS, July 30), one of his predictions gave me cause for concern. It was regarding vehicular values when the government’s proposed ‘ban on internal combustion engine driven cars’ comes into force.
As a driver who had reluctantly changed to a diesel-powered car (from petrol) in 2013, and has since traded in to acquire another diesel car, one with a smaller engine, I was dismayed to read that my latest car, which cost me over €20,000, could soon be worth zilch.
Then I got thinking... Why has nobody come up with the possibility of removing a car’s internal combustion engine and replacing it with an electric motor? Surely some engineering entrepreneur can come up with a way of changing out a car’s obsolete engine, rather than scrapping the whole car?’ I realise there might be technical problems, however, in today’s high-tech world such issues should be easily overcome.
The person who does conceive such a mechanical possibility will surely retire rich.