World Health Org decides soot is carcinogenic....

[jazd]

Electric trucks transporting goods around the country? Can't see that happening anytime soon. Not worried in the slightest.

Yeah but they might start going postal on diesel emissions systems.

[wai]

Yeah but they might start going postal on diesel emissions systems.

As the diesel truck fleet is replaced, you will find more and more of them will come out with DPF's as this is what is required in Europe.

But really, the emissions from cars are just as bad. Much is made of NOx emissions from diesels. Then again, if you do not retune a car to run on E10, the NOx emissions almost tripple because of the higher temperature leaner burn caused by the addition of ethanol.

[wai]

Electric trucks transporting goods around the country? Can't see that happening anytime soon. Not worried in the slightest.

There has been mich discussion on electric vehicles in other forums. One group is trying to make the electric motors more efficient because trying to make batteries store more energy is getting increasingly difficult. The problem is that ultimately it takes a given amount of energy to accelerate a vehicle to a certain speed and maintain it at that speed. That energy comes from the battery. Things like regenerative braking are not the answer as you have to put that energy in somewhere. All it does is try and get SOME of it back. It is generally a very little amount compared to the energy used.

Anyhow, that's for another time. I doubt we will see electric trucks in our lifetime or a few more generations to come. Petrol/Diesel/LPG will be around for a long while yet, and diesel emissions will be cleaned up using DPF's and various catalytic converters and other conditioners.

[Buzy_Robot]

The following links might be of interest to readers of this thread:

WHO study shouldn't scare fans of clean-diesel cars

Volkswagen Challenges WHO Claims About Cancer-Causing Diesel Exhaust