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Amsterdam's head of transport has announced plans to ban petrol and diesel cars in the city by 2030.
The clean air action plan aims to make the Dutch capital a "world leader in emission-free transport".
Transport chief Sharon Dijksma said residents "live a year less on average due to dirty air" and that the plan should "prolong the health of the average Amsterdammer by three months."
But the plan has already incited strong reactions in the Netherlands with one motoring organisation branding it "bizarre" and wondering how normal people would afford electric cars.
The plan, which would be applied 20 years before the Paris Agreement aims to slash greenhouse gas emissions, would require up to 23,000 electric charging points by 2025. The city currently has 3,000.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 07 2019, @05:41PM (2 children)
Pollution from "modern" diesels is extremely low. Pollution from Electric cars may not be lower - because most of the problem these days is particulates from the brakes and tyres, and electric cars tend to be double the weight of conventional cars - so far more stress on brakes and tyres. The push for electric cars cars is mostly ill-informed political correctness - not that I rule out fake news and corruption. A recently published report (in the Brussels Times) says the energy required to manufacture the batteries for electric cars exceeds the lifetime consumption of most diesel cars. (Google is your friend).
Consider the following important fact-lets:
Not all cars are the latest technology. Old cars are "very bad". Old petrol cars pollute with unburned hydrocarbons - which are known carcinogens - but petrol is "All American".
Very new diesels ("Euro-6") have "Ad-Blu" technology - to cut down on Nitrous Oxides (the same ones used to improve sexual performance), they pump Urea (pig's piss) into the exhaust pipe. Ignoring the fact that pig's piss is neither Halal nor Kosher, there is no evidence that it is not responsible for the massive rise in Asthma and hay fever we have been experiencing since Euro 6 was invented. Nor is there any evidence that the manufacturers of Ad-Blu have been bribing officials to pass laws requiring the technology.
In fact there is absolutely no evidence of any kind what ever regarding the merits or otherwise of Ad-Blu technology on the road. Sure it works fine in the lab - but so did the Volkswagens.
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Disclaimer: I don't own an electric car factory.
(Score: 2) by sshelton76 on Tuesday May 07 2019, @07:51PM
Yeah, but are you considering the effects of regenerative braking in that math?
If you've ever driven an electric car or a hybrid you'll notice that despite the extra curb weight you hardly ever need the brakes and this is due to regenerative braking.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regenerative_brake [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 08 2019, @06:24AM
Is this a retarted persontaling? Pig's piss? You expect real responses when your premise is pig's piss? Fuck off.