Table Of Contents 2021 Source – The Brussels study by True EmissionsSource German Federal Environment agency and published by Deutsche Welle in Feb 2018Source 2 – The West Lothian Goverment studySource 3...
Category - Dirty old tech
Petrol, Diesel, Air Quality, Emissions, Clean Air Zones, Ultra Low Emission zones
David Nicholson
Update-Why diesel trains need to be phased out
Global warming, new technology & new knowledge on the effects of air pollution are set to send fossil fuel diesel trains into the sidings CO2 from diesel fuel Replacing dirty diesel trains with emission free travel...
The fatal flaw with the London ULEZ and how a diesel sunset would deliver better less pollution in London and more revenue to TFL
The London ULEZ (or Ultra Low Emission Zone) was the first UK clean air zone and it’s criteria for charging the most polluting vehicles has been rolled out as the standard for other clean air zones in the UK. In...
Video Pairs-Why does it matter so much that EVs are efficient?
In this video pair we look at what happens if you build an EV that is much more or much less efficient than a Tesla Model 3Of the current ways to power a car efficiency matters to a different degree in each. Petrol...
Fossil to Cleantech- a selection of news from Q1 2021
Jan 2021 Australia: Coal to cleantechNSW transition gets major boost with plans for 2 coal power stations to be given a second life as mega batteries to support renewable power. Using locations with existing connections...
10 things that killed diesel and how carmakers made them worse
October 2020 Update – Brand diesel is taking a hammering. Having peaked at 50.8% of car sales in the UK in 2012, by 2017 it had fallen to 42% and by October 2020 diesel sales in the UK had collapsed to just 18.4%...
Consultation on ending the sale of new petrol, diesel and hybrid cars and vans – MyUrbanCar response
Ccc submission MyUrbanCar.com and @myurbancar @rivergecko provide advice and information to accelerate the shift to zero emission primarily electric vehicles powered by a renewable energy. We strongly support the...
The EV is nearly ready to kill off the diesel van..nearly
It might seem a strange time for someone who hasn’t driven a van in decades to be predicting the end of the diesel van now. After all diesel van sales (lockdown aside) have hardly ever been higher with around 97%...
Climate change, CleanTech and Fossil fuel divestment hit the city
2019 was a bit of a shock to many directors of financial services firms. For many in banking, pensions, fund management and insurance, climate change action largely used to be restricted to writing lengthy reports about...
The big fat diesel con. Why UK diesel drivers produce more CO2 not less.
Here’s why the getting diesel drivers to switch to EVs should be a priority, for climate change and public health. Diesel versions of a car produce less CO2 than petrol versions but… Conventional wisdom is...
