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© 2017 AFPRenault-Nissan to launch 12 zero-emission models
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Brian Wheway
its a nice looking car,
ozziedesigner
Burning Bush is right. Zero emissions my a*** !
Laguna
It is far easier to control emissions on one power plant supplying power to 100,000 cars than on each of those 100,000 cars individually. Just ask Volkswagon.
wtfjapan
zero emission at the tailpipe yes, but how about at the powerplant supplying the electricity? even if electric vehicles were only powered by coal powered power stations the emissions a electric vehicle puts out in its lifetime is less than an ICE vehicle. in countries like Denmark, Norway where renewable energy is very high electric vehicles perform exponential better than ICE vehicles. The best ICE engines are only about 40% efficient where as electricmotos are around 90%. If you have solar panels on your roof then you can effectively charge you car emissions free.
ozziedesigner
@wtfjapan
There is no such thing as emission free with what you suggest. With what metric do you measure the energy, metal, plastic glass pollution etc associated with producing the solar panels ?
I agree Solar power has some great benefits but lets no kid ourselves about the realities of it as well
kohakuebisu
There are dirty ways to create electricity, but they are becoming progressively more expensive, while renewables, especially solar, are becoming cheaper. So electric cars are a net positive and increasingly so.
Add in self-driving and shared ownership and we could have ourselves a real revolution in transport. I'd be happy to rid myself of ownership costs and have a robot drive me to the pub.
NCIS Reruns
Sheesh, my first set of wheels in Japan, a 1959 Nissan Bluebird that I bought for 20,000 yen, had a crank start, and was so underpowered I could only get up hills by driving in reverse gear. It didn't even have a gas indicator. I loved that car...
UlsterBoy
E.V's are the future it seems. Though Emission testing is somewhat dubious given the recent Diesel scandal, and perhaps when the car no longer uses combustible fuel as an energy source, a different form of Environmental impact assessment needs to be used ?
browny1
In the debate of energy costs / CO2 production etc of gasoline vs electric cars, the biggest miss is not including data re the Monster amounts of electricity required to refine oil to produce gasoline.
All things considered EV wins hands down.