| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:EU to ban new petrol/car sales from 2035. | |
| Posted by: | Raymond Havelock | |
| Date/Time: | 12/06/22 09:58:00 |
| Modern cars, easily looked after very rarely suffer drive train faults unless abused. It usually steering, suspension and braking components that fail and that's the same for any other propulsion mode. And all modern vehicles suffer from electronic failures. EVs are very prone to this and very, very expensive to remedy once out of warranty. ( As are liquid fuelled vehicles ) But then there's the batteries. Highly toxic and environmentally damaging from extraction, processing and end life disposal. Not to mention the huge carbon footprint involved in mining and processing which makes no headlines at all but uses fossil fuels ( mainly goal and gas) to process. A current battery would need to last 18 years to equalise its manufacture footprint. Only when technology can reach that and exceed that to at least 25 years will it be a genuine environmental alternative. Electric and Hybrid Buses are now appearing in scrapyards because the sheer cost of replacing batteries exceeds the economic viability of the vehicle. Some are being retrofitted with Euro 5 diesel engines to see them out to their expected service life. |