Posted on 09/04/2019 6:11:29 AM PDT by george76
Just as the state forces Battery cars onto Colorado consumers, emerging evidence consistently show the so-called “zero-emission vehicles” pollute more than internal combustion vehicles.
The latest evidence comes in a report by the German-based IFO Institute for Economic Research, released about the same time Colorado air commissioners voted 8-1 to adopt California’s “Zero Emission Vehicle” (ZEV) standards. The new rule requires at least 5% of any automotive company’s vehicles for sale in Colorado run on electricity.
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We all want clean air. Hickenlooper and Polis probably believe battery cars advance the goal. No credible evidence suggests they do any such thing.
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California’s air quality has gone down since the state forced the sale of more battery cars.
The institute’s study included everything that emits CO2 from the moment production of the vehicle’s energy source begins. When accounting for the emissions involved in producing diesel fuel and emissions involved in producing mining-intensive battery production, the Tesla Model 3 in Germany (battery car) emitted up to 181 grams of CO2 per kilometer – including emissions involved in producing kilowatts for the battery. That compares to 141 grams of CO2s produced by the diesel-powered Mercedes C22d.
A 2018 study by the Bloomberg New Energy Finance and Berylls Strategy Advisors came to a similar conclusion, citing the extraordinary amount of carbon pollution caused by the production of lithium-ion batteries.
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A 2018 study by the Bloomberg New Energy Finance and Berylls Strategy Advisors came to a similar conclusion, citing the extraordinary amount of carbon pollution caused by the production of lithium-ion batteries.
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The state’s new ZEV standard is nothing but a feel-good fraud. There ain’t no such thing as a free lunch, a unicorn, a perpetual motion machine or a zero-emissions car.
(Excerpt) Read more at gazette.com ...
The Kalifornication of CO continues apace.
“In more recent years when business/personal travel takes me back to LA I’ve noticed a much improved air quality.”
One of the many CRIMINAL ACTS by our media is to NOT tell the public where we’ve been successful. If you ask people in much of the country whether the air is cleaner, they’ll say it’s not...thanks to the media. I remember about 20 years ago, Honda pointed out that their cars now had cleaner air coming out of their tailpipes than going into their engines, at least on bad days in California. That says a hell of a lot, and how many people have ANY IDEA just how clean the newer cars are?
HOW many poor people drive older clunkers in CA?
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