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> It's been widely suspected (but, likely due to corruption, ignored) that emissions and fuel consumption tests are outright manipulated. This is widely discu
by lispm 11y ago
> It's been widely suspected (but, likely due to corruption, ignored) that emissions and fuel consumption tests are outright manipulated.
This is widely discussed here in Germany for some years now, but the government chose not to act. A form of corruption and a fear of loss of jobs -> voters.
When it comes to electric vehicles, I'm not so sure they make that much more sense environmentally: lot's of energy and materials used during production, new large scale infrastructure needed, electricity mostly produced by coal and nuclear power plants, exotic materials used for the battery, etc etc.
Here in Germany the number of electric cars is tiny. We are seeing lots of electric bicycles and public transport is starting to invest in electric busses on a larger scale.
What could have quicker some positive environmental impact and would be relatively simple, would be to have more cars use natural gas, since a lot of cars could be using it.
- the8472 11y ago> lot's of energy and materials used during production regular cars also cost energy to produce. so unless there is a huge discrepancy it still means a relative reduction in emissions when compared to gas-guzzling ones > electricity mostly produced by coal and nuclear power plants that is a separate problem which is also supposed to get tackled over time. just because B hasn't been completely solved yet doesn't mean we can't start working on A which will depend on B to realize its full potential. Not to mention that autonomous vehicles might very well become a third prong attacking the problem by making electric, autonomous fleets not owned by individuals a possible scenario. Since cars wouldn't have to be individually-owned this might also drive down the overall fleet size and thus reduce the overall energy invested in vehicle production.