Cleaner Air

I didn't say or infer that either.

Is this an elaborate wum?

comment by Boris 'Inky’ Gibson (U5901)

posted 4 hours, 31 minutes ago

As I said before, you would be foolish not to get an EV if you were in the market for a new family car and/or had a regular commute to work.
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Which part of that statement leads you to believe I think they're a bad idea?

Black cabs in central London are mostly 51 plate diesel guzzling engines polluting the air and they aren’t even liable to pay the congestion charge, whilst a 2004 plate Ford Focus with a petrol engine is forced to pay £20 a day if it wants to drive through it. Absolute joke how much black cabbies get favouritism here.

Sorry just catching up. He said that you'd be foolish not to get an EV. Although he has filtered me so can't see anyway

TfL have banned cabs over 12 years old so the oldest working cab you'll see is a 58 plate.

That’s still an old clunky engine Boris and it pollutes the air more than an old petrol engine Ford Focus.

In fact, it’ll probably pollute more than a 2014 BMW 1 series which would have to pay £20 a day to drive through the centre.

1 series Diesel engine that is.

comment by Constantinople (U11781)
posted 1 minute ago
That’s still an old clunky engine Boris and it pollutes the air more than an old petrol engine Ford Focus.

In fact, it’ll probably pollute more than a 2014 BMW 1 series which would have to pay £20 a day to drive through the centre.
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It's Euro 4 which is actually cleaner than Euro 6 - The 'acceptable' diesel engine.

comment by Boris 'Inky’ Gibson (U5901)
posted 9 minutes ago
comment by Constantinople (U11781)
posted 1 minute ago
That’s still an old clunky engine Boris and it pollutes the air more than an old petrol engine Ford Focus.

In fact, it’ll probably pollute more than a 2014 BMW 1 series which would have to pay £20 a day to drive through the centre.
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It's Euro 4 which is actually cleaner than Euro 6 - The 'acceptable' diesel engine.
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How do you figure that? The limits for all pollutants are smaller in every parameter for Euro 6 than Euro 4.

Or are you just going with the angle that manufacturers just cheat to pass it because it's too difficult now?

PM 2.5 is remaining stable, ie not reducing, and a major problem for diesel engines, reducing nox and CO2 is all well and good, but we need to be getting rid of these pollutants, and a big part of that would be removing it at source. IE the combustion engine.