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muckles:
It appears F1 donât think EVâs are the future for them, theyâre looking into using a modern 2 stroke engine design and a fuel made from Hydrogen and Carbon using green energy. They also want to use the fuel for the logistics operation that F1 require, with the aim to reduce their carbon footprint and to be carbon neutral by 2030.
Another interesting paragraph in the article was about the batteries used in the Formula E championship.
Research presented at the conference showed that electric racing cars could be responsible for twice the level of carbon emissions as hybrid racing cars, because of the amount produced when building the batteries.
motorsportmagazine.com/news ⌠Efq6j-83kI
Interesting post.
One para jumped out at me from the linked article:
âThe new engines are likely to remain hybrids but powered by synthetic fuel, made by combining hydrogen with carbon captured from the air, using surplus green energy.â
Nice to see that the energy crisis has been resolved already isn`t it? A green energy surplus! 
Good point made about taking into account all environmental costs when looking at energy uses. The true cost of batteries does need to be examined.
Without seeing the full articles and their sources can we be sure that the cost of batteries is looked at as fairly as the source of âsurplus green energyâ?
I also would like to see the research into the carbon produced in battery production, but they did present their research at a conference, so I assume it could be challenged by those attending and as itâs in the open by others in the industry.
My understanding is the carbon produced in the production of a car is the equivalent of 5 years of driving a normal internal combustion engine car. So maybe if youâre a low mileage driver the greenest solution would be to have an old car, properly serviced, as each year youâd reduce the overall lifetime carbon footprint of that vehicle, but of course that wouldnât make the manufacturers very happy and there is still an issue of local emissions especially in urban areas.
To take that further, surely keeping stuff longer, buying less stuff and buying more locally produced stuff seems to make sense to me, but again that doesnât suit our global capitalist system.
I know a lot of automotive engineers who believe that battery EVâs are not a long term solution, and there is a problem with the long supply of some raw materials as demand increases and issues recycling old batteries, I understand itâs a complex and potentially dangerous process, although no doubt this might change if there is a profit to be made and therefore investment can go into the process.
So this type of engine running on a renewable fuel source might offer a solution or at least another option to ran alongside EVâs, it also might offer a solution to powering trucks, where heavy batteries reduces payload, plus as we know finding parking at night can be difficult, when often you see trucks parked on entrance and exits of services areas across Europe, so supplying enough space let alone access to charging point for them might be challenging to say the least, let alone the power required to charge them all.
and numerous residents all trying to sell up to move somewhere else where they can keep their car and no one wanting to move there.Thatâll work.Suddenly loads of negative equity in the car and the bonus of the house too.
