Dieselgate was not a scandal then in your opinion? The media seemed pretty sure it was.Demonised? Really, I don’t see it.
Less preferred by the market, definitely.
“Dieselgate” accelerated the inevitable. Too many diesels were being used for use cases which make little or zero sense for a diesel, ie short duration, short distance, low speed, below operating temperature, etc. As a result they weren’t as a reliable or cost effective to run as those people hoped, especially with the additional kit required to clean up local emissions.
Diesel is still top of the tree for those people who really do tow a twin axle caravan to Morocco twice every week, etc. Not so much the vast majority of people who in reality do low-single digit thousand miles per year, driving to school, work. supermarkets, and the tip occasionally, counting MOTs and repairs as services.
The people who I know who are most negatively vocal about diesels are those who have had to meet the cost of several hefty repair bills. Without exception they shouldn’t have bought a diesel. That’s not “diesel’s” fault, nor are those people demonising diesels, they just don’t want to get bitten again. Their view is as valid as yours and mine.
Your comments in your post below made me think that (a) these green levies would be significant and (b) that you’d know how much they are, or else why would you make such a bold and negative statement?
I assume you meant to say can't be all blamed on EV's? Indeed policy is not concerned with who consumes the energy just that targets for renewables are met.
You don’t strike me as the kind of person who hangs on to every word from the media, but I’m often surprised. The media certainly tried their hardest to make it a scandal, and without media involvement the outcome could have been different.
Really? Have another go. I’ve made some stuff bold to help it stand out on this pass.
Tish, tish. You can do better than this.
No, the failure is with the manufacturers who failed to recognise and invest in other ICE types that could deliver the required performance while creating low or non-existent NOx emissions. Instead they persisted with a technology that had no developmental headroom left. The warnings on this date back to the 1960s and were ignored and cheating (because that is what it was) was instigated instead.
Is it the university's fault when a student cheats in an exam? Should the university have made the paper easier, less demanding - all the way to meaningless?
ICE has plenty developmental headroom left untapped, technologies so low on NOx and particulate emissions as to require very little if any aftertreatment. There's more developmental headroom there than in EVs (unless the big breakthrough in battery tech finally occurs (WTF is it?). When it is pursued in conjunction with bio-fuels, electrifying cars will look plain stupid. The 'cleaner city air' argument will be buried also - zero particulates and NOx mean such an engine is perfectly acceptable in such an environment. And will cost a fraction of EV costs to manufacture (anywhere in the world - not just in China) with existing fuel distribution networks repurposed - not destroyed in favour of hideously expensive grid upgrades and new infrastructure.
Yes in a way, insufficient invigilation.
What has energy density got to do with anything?
AI's reliance of power hungry GPU's will redress that balance.
www.wsj.com
AI's reliance of power hungry GPU's will redress that balance.
"Artificial Intelligence may soon require more electricity than all electric vehicles combined"
AI Is Ravenous for Energy. Can It Be Satisfied?
The revolution in artificial intelligence may soon require more electricity than all electric vehicles combined.
I know who assembled my ICE in my AMG , he wrote his name on the top of it , bloody Vandal .
Please do not bring COP26 into a fact based thread. If any of the COP meetings actually got results they would not have had to stage 26 of them.....
Have to agree, to me it's just an all expenses paid, jolly boys (and girls) outing.
Sorry, Pal, it's these UN initiatives that created the local legislation in the EU and UK that brought you your phased ICE ban.
