[WRC] News & Rumours 2018

[Rally Power]

So once again, Sven Smeets clearly lobbying for VW, saying it is too late for an Hybrid WRC car. Interesting he doesn't mention a full electric option, but I guess he knows that would have some kind of backlash from the fans. http://www.revistascratch.com/wrc/no...n-el-wrc-47068

Not only motorsport fans, also globally people are slowly realizing that EV’s aren’t so eco friendly like manus and polititians are telling. Coal and gaz plants will still be huge electricity sources for the next decades, meaning EV’s can become more CO2 polluants than ICEV’s. Besides, there are also environmental issues concerning batteries production and recycling.

That’s why its tottaly demagogic to say it’s too late for hybrids, especially coming from a brand that only a few years ago was caught cheating on TDI Diesel emissions, a technology VW also promoted as eco friendly. If VW purpose is to get back to WRC in order to promote EV’s, I say, with due respect, to Smeets and his associates: stay away, the WRC is doing fine without you!