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In June of this year, 171 so-called experts signed a letter from the International Association for Sustainable Powertrain and Vehicle Technology Research to the European Commission, arguing that electric vehicles are better for the environment. The letter stated that the committee made a mistake in evaluating the effectiveness of electric vehicles in reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and that eliminating the internal combustion engine would not effectively reduce emissions.
But according to DeSmog, one-third of the signatories were or are currently connected to automakers, and 71% are internal combustion engine experts. No one has any obvious expertise in electric vehicles. In addition, the eight signatories are duplicates, and several names cannot be verified online.
Julia Poliskanova of the Environmental Organization Transportation and Environment responded to these data and told DeSmog, “It is clear that IASTEC is not an'independent scientist', but a group that has no right to criticize electric vehicles at best, and at worst it is driven by vested interests. Engine benefits."
She cited the works of scientific historians Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway, which documented the oil industry’s efforts to promote climate science denial, and called the organization a “skeptical merchant” who used the sophisticated and mature strategies of tobacco companies to broadcast Plant the seeds of doubt and distort the facts to suit their business goals.
IASTEC claims on its website that it is "in the process of being established" and describes itself as "an international association of professors and researchers engaged in vehicle and powertrain research from world-renowned universities." In their paper, the team drew on a study published in the Journal of Mathematics, claiming that the standard analysis of the emission footprint of electric vehicles "significantly underestimates the actual CO2 emissions."
Instead, the organization recommends replacing gasoline and diesel with carbon-neutral equivalents called “reFuels”, describing them as “carbon dioxide-neutral synthetic fuels” that can be mixed with fossil fuels, aiming to reduce emissions from road transportation until electric cars Develop further.
Although this paper was widely cited by the German news media, electric car experts quickly disputed its findings. Auke Hoekstra, a researcher at the University of Eindhoven, accused the organization of “burning engine hall gas lights” and using “puzzling and amateurish” mathematics to make inaccurate statements. He added that the report also ignores future improvements in the advantages of electric vehicles, such as the ability of the car to charge during off-peak hours to avoid overloading the grid.
DeSmog found that many signatories who dispute the effectiveness of electric vehicles have a history of promoting or working in the diesel engine industry and are staunch supporters of diesel technology.
Professor Thomas Skoch, one of the main authors of the paper, has worked in the engine development of the German car manufacturer Daimler for 10 years and was an expert on the Parliamentary Investigation Committee during the German diesel emission scandal in 2014. At the same time as the director of the Piston Institute. In terms of engines at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), he claimed in an interview in 2018 that “diesel is better” and that he owns two diesel cars and does not intend to “very much "Quickly" replace them. He told DeSmog that the organization's funding was "an academic initiative without any industry interaction."
When asked about the high percentage of teams working with ICE, Koch said that all the authors of the paper work in academia, "The complexity of technology, especially the complexity of the development process, requires industry experience."
Christian Bader, head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany, said in an interview that the debate about diesel has become an "ideological discussion that has been condemned across the board for diesel engines." Good carbon dioxide balance."
Polis Kanova of the Ministry of Transport and Environment said that independent research “has proven that today’s electric vehicles have significantly improved the environment than the fuel engines they replace. This does not mean that we should not be committed to sustainability. Procurement of materials locally, or we should not switch to 100% renewable energy. But this does mean that it is time to stop questioning, and quickly accelerate their absorption in order to warm the planet."
In this latest “position paper”, we can clearly see the source of the diesel cheating scandal that swept Volkswagen in 2015. Many people don’t remember that Daimler and BMW were also involved in the disaster because they helped pay for a study conducted in the United States that piped exhaust gas from a Ford F-250 with a diesel engine into a plexiglass cavity. Room. The purpose is to show that the monkey in the transparent box can breathe toxins without any obvious harm. Almost all diesel-powered car manufacturers are involved in this dispute.
Since the OPEC oil embargo in the 1970s, Germany has particularly embraced diesel technology, mainly because diesel engines enable vehicles to consume a gallon of fuel more than gasoline engines. More importantly, their exhaust gas stream also contains more fine particles, which can cause illness and premature death of people who inhale them.
The hyped German engineering community should have invented a method to isolate these pollutants, but chose to design an electronic work area to shut down the control, unless emission tests were being conducted. However, diesel engines have a place in certain areas of the German engineering industry, similar to religion.
No climate emergency, no human suffering, no habitat destruction, are enough to persuade them to stay away from the diesel altar. They devoted their life to promoting diesel technology and couldn't stop the praise of it. Has the sea level risen? Why, we will design diesel-powered pumps to put that nasty old ocean back in place!
When Götterdämmerung finally arrives, these well-meaning people will beg for more time to create another generation of Rudolf Diesel's wonderful inventions before the turbulent world cities.
One of the questions that DeSmog did not answer was where did the money to pay these shillings come from. They are unlikely to be insured by Big Oil. But anything is possible, right? That's right, grasshopper.
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