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Originally Posted by Jimbuna
Is this not a case of 'too little, too late' taking into consideration the recently announced banning of both petrol and diesel vehicles come 2040?
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Banning petrol and Diesel is wishful thinking in the next decades, thinking of trucks and delivering goods alone.
Better do a bit research before doing
something.
Fine dust and particulate matter pollution is now coming mainly from brakes, clutches, Diesel trains, along with inland water transport, and not to to forget pollen.. generating more than 80 percent of particulate matter.
As i also pointed out the switch to electric cars has nothing to do with environmental care, it just shifts the problems to the powerplants. The air in the cities will get a bit better, while pollution around power plants and in the country will get worse.
Have to build new and more power plants to answer the demand.
Then you have a lot of electrical grid loss, until you get the energy to your home plug, and then you have to add charging loss, and battery loss overnight. Not to speak about having to renew the accumulators/batteries every 3-4 years. And that will be very expensive, and "dirty".
All much less efficient than petrol engines for decades to come, from sheer energy consumption to environmental impact.
I heard Schwarzenegger's Hummer runs electric, I guess the energy in California just comes out of the plug, without needing to generate it anywhere
