#Other words for save the clima drivers
Sign up to the daily Business Today email or follow Guardian Business on Twitter at this year, the physicist Christoph Buchal and I published a research paper showing that, in the context of Germany’s energy mix, an EV emits a bit more CO 2 than a modern diesel car, even though its battery offers drivers barely more than half the range of a tank of diesel. As such, the EU’s intervention is not much better than a cutoff device for an emissions control system. And even when they are charged with solar- or wind-generated energy, enormous amounts of fossil fuels are used to produce EV batteries in China and elsewhere, offsetting the supposed emissions reduction. As long as coal- or gas-fired power plants are needed to ensure energy supply during the “dark doldrums” when the wind is not blowing and the sun is not shining, EVs, like ICE vehicles, run partly on hydrocarbons. Electric vehicles also emit substantial amounts of CO 2, the only difference being that the exhaust is released at a remove – that is, at the power plant. If a company cannot produce electric vehicles and remains at the current average emissions level, it will have to pay a fine of about €6,000 (£5,150) per car, or otherwise merge with a competitor that can build electric vehicles.īut the EU’s formula is nothing but a huge scam. The implication is that if an auto company’s production is split evenly between electric vehicles and ICE vehicles that conform to the present average, the 59 g/km target will be just within reach. After all, in its legally binding formula for calculating fleet emissions, it simply assumes EVs do not emit any CO 2 whatsoever. The EU wants to reduce fleet emissions by forcing a shift to electric vehicles. But, apparently, that is precisely the point.
Even the most gifted engineers will not be able to build internal combustion engines (ICEs) that meet the EU’s prescribed standards (unless they force their customers into soapbox cars).
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