Perhaps the VW emissions scandal will actually do some good.
Your new clean diesel turns to be less clean than you thought? Switch to an electric car.
Car exhaust pollution (Image: Wikipedia)
In recent days, the loudest thing in the automotive industry is Volkswagen’s scandal over diesel engine emissions.
We at InsideEVs don’t cover conventional cars, but there’s something we’d like to note. After over 100 years of developments, we simply don’t believe that internal combustion engines can be significantly improved upon in terms of fuel economy or emissions.
Proof of that is seen in such things as carmakers using more and more gears (like eight or even nine), while every next gear translates to less gain than the previous one, at some additional cost. Automakers are literally scratching at whatever they can.
In the world of tightening emission standards, evading them is worth billions of dollars and there could be plenty of people sitting tight-lipped about true emissions in various automotive groups.
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