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Im not worried about tailpipe pollution per se - all airborne pollution concerns me.
Simply moving the emissions from tailpipe to smoke stack achieves little on its own, and that is negated by the additional environmental impact of manufacturing electric cars and their batteries over conventional vehicles.
Electric cars, great, I'm all for them and my next vehicle will for sure be electric. However, I'm not conning myself into beliving that they alone solve anything while we're still largely burning fossil fuels to power them.
The Leaf is one of the worst examples. Replacing a 1600kg petrol car with a 1600kg electric one is laughable, and then driving it around with only the drivers seat occupied is an utterly ridiculous proposition.
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2004 Smart Fortwo 0.7 petrol.
Motorbike.
Many, many bicycles.
2019 Volvo XC90 T8 - 400BHP plug in hybrid insanity.
All journeys I do under 10 miles are human powered - I make journeys, not excuses..
2019 mileage - 1900 by car, 7100 by bicycle.
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