Fuck Cars

924 readers

9 users here now

Your hub for collection of materials that contribute to a world with less car ownership. Including buses, motorcycles, bicycles, skateboards, longboards, scooters, hoverboards, e-scooters, pedestrians, walking, running

Community can decide if: truck have a place here.

Matrix

Discord

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

The Diesel Story - How the EU Pretended to Fight Climate Change While Poisoning its Citizens (youtu.be)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

4 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

The EU incentivised deisel a lot more than other regions under the misguided assumption that deisel would reduce CO2 emissions and that NOX emissions would be easy to reduce in future, but in actuality they ended up being about the same as regular petrol cars once NOX emissions were actually reduced.

They had a big incentive from oil refineries in the EU to use diesel after the oil crisis as diesel is always produced during oil refinement, and from car manufacturers to be able to keep selling diesel cars. Because of this they continued using outdated emissions tests for diesels cars for decades.