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In Germany, the Bundestrat, or Upper House, has passed a resolution to ban the internal combustion engine (ICE) [Note] powered car by 2030. It’s a nice gesture from a body that is pretty much powerless and composed of non-elected delegates (compare it to the Canadian Senate or British House of Lords), but it’s influential. The Dutch and Norwegian governments are making similar plans, and the EU could follow.
A graphic from the article shows Germany gets one-third of its electricity from renewables now. Will weaning its energy and transportation sectors off fossil fuels confer an economic advantage?
[Note: story is in German. --Ed.]
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Germany's Bundesrat Calls for End of Internal Combustion Engine Powered Cars by 2030
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Grelb's Reminder:
Eighty percent of all people consider themselves to be above
average drivers.
(Score: 2) by butthurt on Thursday October 13 2016, @12:17PM
[...] pollution from impurities [...]
That can happen, notably with sulphur. However, incomplete combustion (and it's always incomplete to some degree) of hydrocarbons themselves results in pollution. If they're burned in air rather than in pure oxygen, oxides of nitrogen are formed as well.
This proclamation is just symbolic, but actual electrification of cars would lessen pollution in German cities. It would also be good public relations for the German auto industry after the scandal over the Bosch firmware [bbc.com]:
[...] German carmakers agreed to recall 630,000 diesel vehicles to tweak engine software.
[...]
German transport minister Alexander Dobrindt said Mercedes Benz, Opel and Porsche as well as Volkswagen and Audi would adjust settings that increased levels of emissions such as nitrogen dioxide in some diesel cars.