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Originally Posted by Sprintey
Have you seen what Mazda is doing with the SyActiv-X and beyond? It's like a merging of petrol and diesel engines. They do a 30% efficiency improvement with each generation. Their execs point out that they look at well to wheel emissions, and they argue these motors are cleaner than most electric.
There's future in ICE if we switch this way and use biofuels, including algal based.
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I haven’t, thanks. Sounds good but what if diesel powered cars get banned because of the whole diesel gate scandal?
They might be cleaner but electric cars shift pollution away from where the energy is being consumed and to where it is being produced. It may not be cleaner overall but it will be cleaner where the cars are being driven so that might be seen as a bigger benefit.
That reminds me of when Toyota first brought out the Prius and the Fiesta still had better fuel economy than it.