Could VW really be responsible for tens of thousands of deaths from pollution?! VW’s pollution cheating has caused thousands of premature deaths, write Mike Berners-Lee & Chris Goodall, creating costs that could destroy the company’s entire shareholder equity. But this is no ‘Black Swan’ event. It is an early example of the existential threat to
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. 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
No surprise here for most EV drivers, but still good to see in black and white. Electric cars charged on the grid generally have a lower carbon footprint than internal-combustion vehicles–and their wells-to-wheels carbon emissions only shrink as more renewable energy comes online. That’s the conclusion of a new study on the environmental effects of
