Fuels

Don't try this at home!

Don't try this at home!

Increasingly simplistic calls to #Stopburningstuff and #Stickyourselftothings have recently been accompanied by another call: that anyone who challenges the virtues of battery electric vehicles (BEVs) should shut themselves in their garage alongside their idling internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicle for an hour, to see whether they emerge to tell the tale.

What matters is not the promise of electric vehicles but the actuality

What matters is not the promise of electric vehicles but the actuality

Friday 18 September 2015 saw Dieselgate break.  This was the culmination of a growing dissonance between real-world nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions and official values for cars and vans.  The rupture was created by governments picking a technology, for the purposes of decarbonisation, where too much was taken on trust within a fragile governance system.