cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/46045941
“We need a reality check. Otherwise we are heading at full speed against a wall,” Mercedes chief executive Ola Kaellenius told the Handelsblatt business daily of the 2035 goal, adding that Europe’s car market could “collapse” if it goes ahead.
Reliability? Absolutely.
And on paper, they made significant steps to reduce emissions in their engines. But that’s on paper, the VW scandal a few years ago has shown us how trustworthy those figures are.
Efficiency? Not really. Combustion engines used in cars still only average to about 30% effiency, which is a number only marginally higher than what I learned in school over 20 years ago. This is largely because car engines mostly dont operate within their peak-performance/efficiency windows.