Hybrid World Rally Cars

[Mirek]

Still, dear Mirek, you are wrong about nothing being done about ships and planes. There is plenty done in both fields.

CO2 is not the worst emission with ships. They have NOx and SOx emissions far worse than cars due to the fuel they use and the slow speed of the engines. That's why loads of time and resources are put down on developing ways to combat this. I can go on for hours about this as this is my field of work... Should you be interested.

You are of course right and I have never mentioned CO2 as the particular problem. I meant emission as a whole. I do believe new engines are better but the problem is that while under the banner of ecology we start baning ten years old cars the lifecycle of ships and planes is a lot longer. I don't have numbers but for sure a high percentage of planes and especially ships is more than 20 years old and as such they were designed with very little respect towards ecology. The best way how to reduce the impact of the traffic is to limit the non-essential traffic to minimum. That however goes directly against the economic model of our society and that's the main problem. We like to look ecological bu we are as far of that as we can be (together with ecological standards of our factories and business activities in third world countries where we don't give a fuck about ecology at all).

Regardless... The car will at some point be too expensive for the common man to run on standard fuels ad we know them today. I am 100% convinced that the car of the future will be powered from the grid, like most other personal appliances.

Could be and I don't see that as a bad thing.

Sorry for this grumbling but I find our way of dealing with ecology as perfect example of hypocrisy.