Assuming you mean well, and you’re not trolling, you really haven’t done your research.
1. on any given day, depending on the load in the system, the UK can be running on well over 50% renewables and if the wind stops completely the hydro still keeps the renewables in the mid-20’s.
2. Electric cars reduce exhaust pollution at the point of use to absolutely zero. Yes, they move that pollution elsewhere and that’s the point. The people who are getting sick don’t live next to a power station, they live next to a road. EV’s take away the issues with pollution in the cities where the people live. Even allowing for the fact that the electricity still has to be made from fossil fuel at least some of the time, it’s much easier to control the emissions from one coal, wood or gas burning power station that from several million ICE vehicles.
3. I’m not going to call you a hypocrite because hopefully you do mean well, and you simply don’t do yourself what you’re asking others to do. Your EU5 van is literally killing people. EU6 vehicles actually don’t pollute that much and it’s EU5 that are being banned from cities because they’re literally poisonous. And if you really cared, you’d ditch your fleet of polluters and get one/two clean vehicles that do(es) the same job. Yes, that means spending money, and ultimately that’s what this is about. It’s going to cost quite big money to ditch the polluters. From your post you want others to do it, but you don’t want to do it yourself. This, and the fact that don’t actually appear to know what you’re talking about, massively reduces your credibility in this area.
What I am actually suggesting is that our general attitude to motor vehicles needs to change.
Years ago Americans would have been utterly horrified at the thought of driving a 4 cylinder Japanese saloon, and now they are common place.
I will admit that I am genuinely shocked at the claimed renewable percentage - however I am also skeptical.
I fully understand how electric cars work thank you very much.
My EU 5 van is killing people far less than the jumbo jet that has just taken you on holiday, or the crazy over powered German saloon that's just torn the tarmac up as it passed you.
Or the old builders van pouring out soot.
Tesla isn't the future IMO, Tesla is the technical showcase of what is possible.
The future is more like the film Demolition Man IMO, a sterile 'pod' with no steering wheel that takes you to your destination automatically obeying all road signs and speed limits.
I like cars, I love freedom more, the choice to go where I want, when I want, how I want.
I genuinely think we are massively privileged to have experienced free travel like this this in our life times (think about it) 100 years ago it wasn't possible, 100 years from now I suspect it will be radically different.
We will be remembered as the selfish wasteful century, we have used more of the worlds resources in the last 100 years than many decades before us combined.
We do not need over powered, flash performance cars to lead a happy life and neither does driving one make you 'successful'.
See a man in a new Range Rover (you don't see his debt) See a man in an old car (you don't see his money - the truly rich have nothing to prove).