The manufacturing of a automobile has a significant environmental impression. Constructing a contemporary electrical automobile, for instance, produces 26 tons of CO2 …
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Yes.
My Golf GTI MK1 uses some 9ltrs/100kms of fuel and was built 40 years ago. A brand new big SUV with ECO Tag averages 12 and needs to be replaced every 4 years, let alone the amount of tyres it uses: what approach is "greener"??
I like how companies converting old cars to electric ones never talk about where the electric energy comes. 🙂
I’d rather have a classic car that’s been slightly modernize
Better brakes, better cooling, and better ignition with some slightly better parts so it doesn’t brake along with maybe fuel Injection for better power, fuel economy and just a over all better driver if your driving it a lot just for less head aches
The trick is to have two old cars .
Disposable Electric cars don’t help the environment.
Converting an old classic V8 car into an EV, is in utter bad taste! Its disguisting and a bit insane. The vehicle's main interesting object is being removed and replaced with a silent computer – and thats like making a techno remix of Swan Lake, or painting Buckingham Palace pink…
Much like we did with both Diesel and gasoline powered vehicles, we shall look for a diverse solution.
Meaning, we shall look at EVs, but also to Hydrogen, alternative fuels, Hybrids, LPG, Natural gas, etc…
EVs are a great solution for urban mobility, going short distances to work, shop, and play.
However, for long distances we might find that Hydrogen is a better solution.
Moreover, for heavy loads Diesel might be a better option.
Each category has different requirements.
Even inside commercial applications, we may have:
– Mining needs a truck to carry really heavy loads, on short distances, at a low speed;
– Logistics needs a truck to carry a certain weight, for a long time, at high speeds;
– Cities need a bus to carry lots of people, but a autonomy either for a full shift or a day, at medium speeds;
– Transport needs a bus to carry some people, with a greater autonomy and quick refuel, at high speeds.
Hence, the solution shall be diverse.
The current approach, of a all electric solution, is no viable.
Especially when it solely focuses on efficiency, disregarding repairability.
Every product MUST be repairable, especially when it holds many resources, like a vehicle.
Moreover, the repairs MUST be available to independent contractors – and not only to a solo market party, like the OEM.
If we not protect this, we will end up throwing out a car after 10 years of use.
My friend's Nissan Leaf, after 4 years, is a paper weight due to a big reduction on its autonomy.
He is not able to go somewhere reliably.
The battery pack (including taxes, hourly rates, and other components required) costs as much as a used car – or 50% of its original value.
It simply does not make sense!
What is he supposed to do?
My small city car has 22 years of age, and keep maintaining it.
It has low emissions, because (a) it was built in 2001, with some restrictions on CO2 emissions, and (b) it only consumes 5.5 L/100km (42.77 mpg US, or 51.36 mpg UK).
It requires very little fuel to move because it is light (1.100 kg or 2.400 lbs), low power (1.2L with 75hp), and I drive slow (in inter city roads).
I am sorry, but I cannot understand how a 2.500 kg (~5.000 lbs) vehicle is environmentally friendly.
Plus, it battery pack requires a lot of energy.
If we all have a 90 to 150 kWh battery, from where will all that energy some from?
Nope, classic car are expensive and you'll never know when they'll break so commuting on them is not an option
All this talk about climate change is rubbish. Because all these powers that be do not practice it. The very concept of lightly use, repair as necessary and reuse is so much better and far more eco friendly than this greedy concept of planned obsolescence. All this is only because of greedy manufacturing and greedy world economy which feeds insatiably on consumption. For example, make a complete stop to fast fashion. The world is already totally over merchandised. It is better to reduce unnecessary consumption in the quest for eco sensitivity.
EVs are a scam.
Not even classic cars. Keep an ordinary car on the road, and save the planet. But it is not about saving the planet, it is about impoverishing and killing humanity.
I don't really like the idea of changing old classics into ev's, but there are some classics that the engine was never a high point of the overall car such as a citroen or an old Rolls-Royce where something super quite and powerful would be a bonus 😊
The word is called planned obsolescence
Battery pack is dead. Long live engine.
Is my maths correct, if every RV was removed for the roads in Europe, we could close all our coal fired power stations?
Rich people problems…while the average Joe is priced out from a commuter car
Converting internal combustion engine car into electric is a castration.
Not only are classic cars more sustainable than modern EVs, but so are hybrids and even ICE cars. Unless we change the way we produce electricity, mine rare metals and recycle batteries, we are simply exporting the pollution from one place to another. Damage to the environment does not consist of CO2 only. In fact, CO2 is needed by plants to produce oxygen. There are other, more polluting substances, which need to be addressed not only during the exploitation period, but also in the manufacturing and post-use stages of the vehicles.
Drive forever!!!!! never Buy new.
Classic cars need to stay on the road and must be driven. The issue will be the fuel infrastructure. However, even if new combustion engines will be banned, the existing stock of such vehicles will remain on the road for quite some time
I find the idea that something as tyrannical as a "driving ban" can even be discussed openly in what purports to be a free society terrifying! Didn't we fight against the idea of an oppressive government controlling every aspect of our lives during the cold war? This is absolutely crazy!
The CO2 needed for the construction of the e-motor and batteries to convert a classic car to electric far offset the emissions emitted by that car if it would have been driven with its original power-kant in the manner most classic cars are used nowadays, sparsely. It will never benefit the environment knowing that classic cars average less than 2000km per year.
On the other hand, a classic car is only considered sustainable when it replaces a modern vehicle. In almost all cases it is an addition to a modern car so it does not prevent the modern car from being build. you can argue if the classic car is an necessity and should be allowed to use the roads simply because there are few and they don’t cover many miles. The Mille miglia is basically an unnecessary event and the world can do without. But when for historical purposes you intend to keep allowing events like this a change to e-fuels would be compulsory.
Let the old cars in peace, and let their owners drive them peacefuly. Let's penalize on industries that are totally on the fault of making the most carbon emissions, because the cars are NOT the ones who make the most carbon emissions, the energy industry is the one who truly emits more carbon emissions than literally everybody else! Stop burning fossil fuels for energy, bring back clean nuclear power!
This segment ignored the two easy solutions, LPG & CNG. For older classic cars, Liquid Propane Gas is cleaner and cheaper. And for newer classics, Compressed Natural Gas or Methane is still cheaper and produces half the carbon as Diesel or Gasoline. Too bad DW ignored these two solutions which have been used for decades in the very engines of so called "classic cars"…
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The solution is a possible preference but the true is the original classic car is complet not a car with a electric motor, the old cars have the power to transform the driver and feel in other time, the sound of the motor and the mechanic naturality of the machines.
I agree with Porsche for create a new fuels to save the combustion engine.
The electric car is grate but in the new Cars.
Something working if way more sustainable than feeding massive factories with new resources. But theres no tax and profits being made from old vehicles that's the truth off ' climate change ' MONEY consume new products. Madness!!!!
germans use old-timer for classic cars haha
It’s a green scam. You need to drive the EV for more than 10 years before you break energy return on investment. By which time the batteries will likely need replacing and due to the heaviness of EVs the tyres multiple more times than an ICE vehicle. Not to mentioned the source of electricity generation isn’t always coming from renewables. Clearly if you want to reduce CO2 from vehicles then better town planning is the way forward. Question the journey. Question the economic capital model of continuous growth at the expense of the environment and resource depletion. Why commute to work, when better zoning with housing closer to places of work, would make the commute bike friendly. Base investor return not on financial gain but environmental enhancement and protection. Question the driving psychology behind human activity. Question our existence. What separates us from primates, the frontal cortex. Surely all probables we’ve created stem from there 😂
I have my mother's last car, a 1991 Buick Park Avenue,
which has been maintained to the 'nth' degree, however,
my garage is no longer taking cars older than 2000.
You cannot drive forever they will outlaw or make incredibly expensive, to force you to get a bank loan for new electric car – everyone rich wins, you loose.
the problem isn't ICE engines it's the negligent consumerism that has people buying a new car every 5 years. If everyone drove their cars for 10-15 years on average it would be way better for the environment than the same amount of people switching to EVs