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have you calculated amount of CO2 required to produce a new car? Why no one is fighting to convert those existing vehicles to electric? Why nobody produces filt

have you calculated amount of CO2 required to produce a new car? Why no one is fighting to convert those existing vehicles to electric? Why nobody produces filters for used cars? Maybe because companies do not have interest in it? And this way there is nothing change: just produce the same, but with new type of engine. Even better, because more money is earned. Meanwhile ecology is about putting down the production, but the production blossoms for some reason...

mschuster91 3y ago
> Why no one is fighting to convert those existing vehicles to electric? Electric conversion kits exist, but these are relatively niche as you have to replace the entire guts of the car and have to find room for the batteries. It's way more cost-effective to buy a new, from-scratch electric vehicle. > Why nobody produces filters for used cars? Essentially every modern ICE car carries a whole portable miniaturized chemical factory with it - catalytic converters, particulate filters, systems to inject more fuel to burn off the particulate filter, adblue injection, constant real-time analysis of a whole host of different parameters... a retrofit to bring an older engine to modern emission standards is incredibly complex. You'd need to replace the entire ECU, place sensors everywhere, redesign the entire aerodynamics of the exhaust stacks so that the system doesn't collapse from accidental standing waves or pressure shockwaves, and have all of that certified to be road legal. Oh, and on top of that you need to fight for every cubic inch of space as most vehicles of the last 20 years have been designed to be as compact as possible for aerodynamic reasons. Again, not worth the effort.
- anticensor 3y ago
  > have all of that certified to be road legal. Individual approval is a thing.

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have you calculated amount of CO2 required to produce a new car? Why no one is fighting to convert those existing vehicles to electric? Why nobody produces filt

by p0w3n3d 3y ago

mschuster91 3y ago
> Why no one is fighting to convert those existing vehicles to electric? Electric conversion kits exist, but these are relatively niche as you have to replace the entire guts of the car and have to find room for the batteries. It's way more cost-effective to buy a new, from-scratch electric vehicle. > Why nobody produces filters for used cars? Essentially every modern ICE car carries a whole portable miniaturized chemical factory with it - catalytic converters, particulate filters, systems to inject more fuel to burn off the particulate filter, adblue injection, constant real-time analysis of a whole host of different parameters... a retrofit to bring an older engine to modern emission standards is incredibly complex. You'd need to replace the entire ECU, place sensors everywhere, redesign the entire aerodynamics of the exhaust stacks so that the system doesn't collapse from accidental standing waves or pressure shockwaves, and have all of that certified to be road legal. Oh, and on top of that you need to fight for every cubic inch of space as most vehicles of the last 20 years have been designed to be as compact as possible for aerodynamic reasons. Again, not worth the effort.
- anticensor 3y ago
  > have all of that certified to be road legal. Individual approval is a thing.