Cars account for over 2/3 Ireland’s CO2 emissions from road transport, the rest being goods vehicles. Railways are barely a rounding error, which makes sense as we have a tiny rail network. http://www.epa.ie/pubs/reports/air/airemissions/ghg/nir2019/Ireland NIR 2019_Final.pdfThe railways, HGV and industrial equipment like diggers uses far more
I would question the environmental value of punitive measures against already manufactured diesel vehicles.
Yes in hindsight it may have wrong to promote diesels , and so possibly remove incentives for ones to be manufactured .
Considering the CO2 emissions to manufacturer, ship , sell, service etc a vehicle in the first place , would it be greener to scrap or devalue otherwise functional vehicles
In order to electrify all our cars we'd need to about double our electricity generation capacity.Cars account for over 2/3 Ireland’s CO2 emissions from road transport, the rest being goods vehicles. Railways are barely a rounding error, which makes sense as we have a tiny rail network. http://www.epa.ie/pubs/reports/air/airemissions/ghg/nir2019/Ireland NIR 2019_Final.pdf
But regardless of that, it’s cars that are used most on city streets where pollution is worst, and we have a ready means of significantly improving car emissions today (electrifying them) whereas electrifying the likes HGVs and intercity trains is not as easily done. So why not start with cars...
Yep it's a massive opportunity for EirGrid and the electricity providers, they'll see their business double or triple in the coming couple of decades as all transport and domestic-heating energy usage transitions from direct fossil fuel consumption to consumption via their electricity infrastructure. And all at a very predictable pace to allow them build out the network as demand increases.I remember at a place that I worked had about 6 electric forklift which were hooked up to chargers every evening. Someone in their infinite wisdom purchased larger chargers for each forklift to charge quicker, the result was that the existing supply cable wasn't big enough for all the charges at once requiring new cabling and auxiliary equipment.
This is a simplification of what will happen with electric cars. All those fuel tankers delivering fuel, the equivalent energy will have to come down a cable
try moving to rural IrelandI am not trying to solve global warming etc, it would just be nice to not to have to inhale mouthfuls of diesel fumes everyday
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