[WRC] News & Rumours 2019

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Even if all electricity for electric cars would be produced by diesel generators (...)

Diesel generators?!? For gods sake mate, I obviously care about the environment protection and believe EV’s are the future but only if they’re based on a clean source, like Hydrogen.

Current EV’s are powered by the electricity grid, which globally is mainly based on burning coal (EV’s largest market is China and local electricity is 70% coal sourced, the same for India and most of Asia, South America, Africa and so on; even in some European countries coal is still a huge source and its also coming back in the US); to promote its intensive use is a short seeing politic that won’t help bringing CO2 levels down.

We should be strongly pushing for Hydrogen, but probably that wouldn’t make the renewable energy lobby happy and car manus also needed a faster (and cheaper) solution to survive after the Diesel scandal. Shortly: EV’s are good, but not in the current way.