Many drivers miss them when they sit in an electric car: The noises and handles that simply belong to a combustion engine. But there is a remedy: various car manufacturers imitate combustion cars when building their electric models..
One thing is clear: where there is smoke, there is fire, and where there is a fire, there is bound to be air pollution. Easter bonfires release a particularly large amount of particulate matter.
Dutch and British researchers have detected plastic polymers in human blood for the first time. Tiny plastic particles had been found in the bodies of deceased people for some time, but now plastic has also been found in the bloodstream of living people. The problem is that the penetration of plastic into the human body is still irreversible.
In view of the massive price development at the petrol pumps, there are various approaches to reduce dependence on Russian raw materials. The energy policy spokesperson of the SPD Scheer has now called for car-free Sundays. She also considers a faster switch to renewable energies to be indispensable. In Berlin, too, the Greens are calling for a car-free Sunday.
The calculation is very simple: if more and more combustion cars are taken out of circulation and more and more drivers switch to electric vehicles, the tax revenues collected from the sale of mineral oil will decrease. By 2030, these revenues will even fall by around 50 percent compared to 2020. In concrete figures: Revenues will drop by 13 billion euros.
The mobility revolution does not come for free. That's why it was only a matter of time before attempts were made to demand money from cyclists. After all, more and more paths are being created for bicycles, charging stations for electric bikes are being set up and parking spaces are being built.
Charging without waiting in line! Many e-drivers dream of this. But the few charging points are all too often occupied. A Munich-based company now wants to charge electricity via the asphalt with the help of magnetic concrete.
The liquid substance AdBlue helps to significantly reduce pollutants emitted during the combustion of diesel. If AdBlue is added to diesel while driving, trucks can drive where they are actually not allowed to drive due to the high exhaust emission values. AdBlue thus makes it possible to drive in environmental zones. This could now be the end. It would have immense consequences for the population and the environment.
At the end of September 2021, the World Health Organisation (WHO) massively reduced the 15-year recommended limits for pollutants. Now, air pollution levels worldwide exceed these new limits. In 93 cities, the values are ten times higher than recommended.
In the EU, around a quarter of CO2 emissions come from transport, 12 percent of which are from passenger cars. The EU has adopted a plan in which emissions from new vehicles are to be 55 percent lower than in 2021, and Germany has now agreed to this plan.
