Hybrid World Rally Cars

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So we have nice emissions of cars in our rich world and we don't care how the batteries are made in China and Korea.

We try to make the emission of cars smaller but we encourage the growth of car industry to ridiculous levels because it's good for our economy.

We create more and more complicated cars with very short livecycle but we pretend that buying a new car every five years is good for ecology.

We claim how we care about environment but we create lots of obstacles for second or third hand use of such cars to enlarge production.

We like to show how our factories and power plants are ecologic but we don't care that most of the sub-suppliers make their parts in China, India, Indonesia etc. where nobody cares about ecology.

We care about emissions of cars but in the same time we spent billions to promote diesels in passengers car about which everybody knows they are a lot worse for ecology than petrol cars.

We speak about cars emission but we don't care much about airplanes or ships.

We like to claim how we enhance ecological aspects of the traffic but we don't speak about the level of completely unnecessary transportation of goods which can be produced and spent on local basis. We created a colossal nonsense called subsidies which leads to insane transport of agricultural goods from place to place for thousands of kilometers. Than we created just-in-time ideology which again creates incredible traffic.

We can continue for a long time but I don't see anything ecological in all those ecological plans as nobody cares about basic things. It's like fighting a well known arsonist by buing better equipment for the firebrigade.



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Also, Mirek has a lot of points in this post...

Society is moving towards "ecological" things but totally without ecological life cycles.

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.
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.

I don't like it but oil is running out and fossil fuels won't sustain personal transportation much longer.

I know this because I used to work in an industry that found oil, and I now work in an industry that ship oil (on a ship... You know, those that do nothing about their emissions).