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Notably older, two-stroke, scooters have extremely bad exhaust processing; a single two-stroke scooter emits somewhere between 200 to 700 times as much toxic st
by blattimwind 8y ago
Notably older, two-stroke, scooters have extremely bad exhaust processing; a single two-stroke scooter emits somewhere between 200 to 700 times as much toxic stuff (in absolute terms!) as a car, including toxic compounds not even present in four-stroke exhaust (like benzene). So specifically those are absolutely not a better mode of transportation, let alone a less polluting one.
Well that and they're loud as f---.
- DuskStar 8y agoDid you read the article? The kind of scooters being talked about are the standing, electric ones.
- walshemj 8y agoThose 2 stroke engines have been banned for years
- blattimwind 8y agoFor new scooters, yes. There's a huge number of them on the 2nd hand market.
- walshemj 8y agoNot in the EU/USA apart from scooterists who lovingly restore them and do a few hundred miles a year.
- blattimwind 8y agoThese were available new until just a few years ago (2014ish). There are still many of them around, at least here in Germany.