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Re: electric cars

Postby johnkaysleftleg » Sun Jul 03, 2022 10:00 am

Many seem to see electric cars as a magic environmental bullet, this may not quite be all it’s cracked up to be :?

https://www.emissionsanalytics.com/news/pollution-tyre-wear-worse-exhaust-emissions
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Re: electric cars

Postby simon-b » Sun Jul 03, 2022 2:08 pm

johnkaysleftleg wrote:Many seem to see electric cars as a magic environmental bullet, this may not quite be all it’s cracked up to be :?

https://www.emissionsanalytics.com/news/pollution-tyre-wear-worse-exhaust-emissions

Perhaps more a magic car sales bullet, especially where scrappage schemes are involved. Scrapping a car is seen by some who know about car recycling as the most envionmentally costly part of the vehicle's life, even more than running it or building it. And dealing with a crashed electric or hybrid is a lot more complicated than with a crashed conventional car.
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Re: electric cars

Postby nathan79 » Sun Jul 03, 2022 9:51 pm

Andy Milne wrote:Electric cars may end up being the equivalent of BetaMax.

Oil companies are starting to really investigate fully synthetic fuels that can go into a standard ICE. This is what is being used in the World Rally Championship. If they can get ‘high end’ performance cars to run on fully synthetic fuels, and able to manufacture it at a sensible price, then no one needs to change vehicles.


Interesting info there. I was made aware of the fact synthetic oils were being trialled for oil heating systems but had no idea synthetic fuels were so advanced.
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