Tow Cars

https://www.motorcyclenews.com/news/electric-motorbike-swappable-batteries/

The current method of charging cars is not going to work, it takes far too long to charge a car. It may take about 15 mins to charge a Tesla for a 200 mile boost, but if everyone has one its going to do 4 cars per hour. A petrol refill takes 3 minutes maybe, so 20 cars per minute. It is going to cause one hell of a tailback at the charging points. Thats out and about. What about at home? Of course if you have space to charge overnight, fine, I don't I have to park on the far side of the road from my house so cannot trail a lead across the road. What about all of those victorian terraced streets where you have no idea where you are going to park each night? Nope that won't work either. So either all roads are dug up to put in nationally owned charging or something else needs to be done. 

So then you are back to quick swappable batteries that only take a couple of mins to do. However there is a limit to how many of those will be available at each site even if all manufacturers agreed a common standard.

We need a new fuel, or we are going back to the cart & horse. I fear the days of the open meeting circuit are coming to an end.

2030 isn't viable, its just a soundbite but of course it will help to focus minds a little which is necessary, without it nothing would happen. 

Hydrogen is a possibility but only if it is created as clean as possible. Its the nearest there is to what we already use but it appears the government is only looking at it for HGVs etc at the moment, however it may be that it becomes the norm. Certainly seems more viable than the electric option, both from the refueling issues and the horrendous damage to the planet the creation of batteries does. 

This ^^^

But, public transport needs to be vastly improved (it can be done, on my rare treks abroad I've seen it), it needs to be cheap (or better still free for local journeys) clean and frequent. Rail is the most energy efficient form of transport but there is little incentive to use a train to get from, say, Manchester to London, rather than driving, it costs more, takes longer and while some trains are clean and modern many are old, scruffy and dirty.