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  1. Last 7 days
    1. Plug-iny nie tak czyste, jak obiecywano. Dane z UE podważają ekologiczny wizerunek

      Plug-in hybrid vehicles (PHEVs) are not as environmentally friendly as previously claimed, according to recent EU data.

      • Real-world emissions from PHEVs average 135 g CO₂/km, only 19% less than conventional petrol and diesel cars which average 166 g CO₂/km.
      • Official WLTP tests significantly underestimate emissions; PHEVs often run on the combustion engine, even in electric mode, increasing real fuel consumption.
      • In electric-only mode, PHEVs still burn around 3 liters of petrol per 100 km, resulting in emissions of 68 g CO₂/km—over eight times higher than manufacturers’ claims.
      • Hidden fuel consumption costs drivers approximately 500 euros per year more than official manufacturer data suggests.
      • PHEVs are among the most expensive on the market; average price in 2025 in Germany, France and the UK is 55,700 euros, about 15,000 euros higher than average battery-only electric cars.
      • Increasing electric range through larger batteries does not reduce emissions; heavier vehicles consume more fuel and energy overall.
      • PHEVs with electric ranges above 75 km emit more CO₂ on average than those with ranges of 45–75 km.
      • The biggest discrepancies are noted for Mercedes-Benz plug-in hybrids; in 2023, their real emissions exceeded official figures by an average of 494%, with the GLE-Class over by 611%.
      • Automotive industry is lobbying to have PHEVs recognized as low-emission beyond 2035, despite new EU regulations that require the transition to zero-emission vehicles.
      • Weakening EU regulations could undermine the development and adoption of truly zero-emission technologies.
      • According to Transport & Environment, plug-in hybrids are “one of the biggest myths in motoring,” often emitting almost as much as combustion-engine cars and much more than test results indicate.
      • EEA and T&E data casts doubt on PHEVs as effective solutions for transportation decarbonization; their environmental benefits are increasingly questioned.
  2. Feb 2025
    1. Najtańsze chińskie auta w Polsce. Dominuje jedna marka

      Chinese cars with record sales growth in Poland, in January 1000% increase in registrations year-on-year (2 thousand), and their market share jumped to 5%; the most popular brand is MG (1 thousand units), ahead of e.g. Fiat, Citroën, Suzuki and Opel.

      In the whole of 2024, 11 thousand Chinese cars were registered, and in 2023 only 160.

      Prices of the cheapest Chinese cars:

      • MG3 PLN 73.5 thousand, 1.5 l engine
      • BAIC Beijing 3: PLN 79 thousand, 1.5 l engine
      • MG ZS Classic PLN 80 thousand, 1.5 l engine

      The cheapest hybrid: MG ZS Hybrid+: PLN 99 thousand, 1.5 l engine.

  3. Jan 2025
    1. A shared car association, every shared car replaces 9 to 13 private cars for the same amount of travel freedom, point to point. You don't lose any freedom like you would in public transport. It's just like a neighborhood shares a dozen cars. 95% of the cars are in the garage at any time.

      for - example - efficacy of mutualisation - transportation - cars - SOURCE - Youtube Ma Earth channel interview - Devcon 2024 - Cosmo Local Commoning with Web 3 - Michel Bauwens - 2025, Jan 2 - stats - mutualisation - transportation - cars - 1 car can replace 13 - car is parked most of the time - 10% of existing cars doubles our requirement - SOURCE - Youtube Ma Earth channel interview - Devcon 2024 - Cosmo Local Commoning with Web 3 - Michel Bauwens - 2025, Jan 2

  4. Dec 2024
    1. mutualizing forms of governance and ownership, can also have extraordinary effects on the amount of needed energy and materials. For example, in the context of shared transport, one shared car can replace 9 to 13 private cars, without any loss of mobility.

      for - stats - climate crisis - example - positive impacts of mutualisation / sharing - car sharing - 1 Shared car can replace 9 to 13 cars without loss of mobility - from Substack article - The Cosmo-Local Plan for our Next Civilization - Michel Bauwens - 2024, Dec 20

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    1. If I were asked to condense the whole of the present century into one mental picture I would pick a familiar everyday sight: a man in a motor car, driving along a concrete highway to some unknown destination … I think that the 20th century reaches almost its purest expression on the highway. Here we see, all too clearly, the speed and violence of our age, its strange love affair with the machine and, conceivably, with its own death and destruction.

      Cars weirdly coffin-shaped; thinking about the death of distance, the impatience between points, and the necessity to kill intervening 'dead' time spent in transit

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    1. In 2017, Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari made a statement showing India’s intent to move to 100 per cent electric cars by 2030. However, the automobile industry raised concerns over the execution of such a plan.

      This is Mr. Gadkari

  13. Oct 2020
    1. given that I was in Nashville to talk with teens about how technology had changed their lives.

      I have to wonder who the sociologists were from the 60's that interviewed teens about how the telephone changed their lives. Or perhaps the 70's sociologist who interviewed kids about how cars changed their lives? Certainly it wasn't George Lucas' American Graffiti that informed everyone of the issues?

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  20. Sep 2016
    1. die Zahl der Autobesitzer stetig abgenommen hat

      Schön wäre es. Aber in diesem Land, in dem die Automobilindustrie faktisch, jedoch mindestens gefühlt, DIE Industrie und Arbeitsplatzangebot ist, tut sich unser System mit dem Zurückdrängen der individuellen, motorisierten Mobilität leider sehr schwer.

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