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Re:Norway's electric cars zip to new record: almost a third ... by torpfactory on Wednesday January 02, 2019 @01:13PM (#18808473)
It is true that many cars will clean the air of particulate matter these days. That is the only kind of pollution that a modern ICE car will remove, but it is not the only kind of pollution worth talking about....

CO2, NOx and others are just-as, if not more important and your air filter won't do jack diddly for those.

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Re:Norway's electric cars zip to new record: almost a third ... by microcolonel on Wednesday January 02, 2019 @02:50PM (#18809462)
NOx exhaust aftertreatment systems are standard, so a compliant vehicle today will have considerably less NOx in exhaust as well. As for CO2, well, it's not a small chunk, but cars and light trucks account for less than half of transportation sector CO2 emissions; and the transport sector accounts for about 28% of overall CO2 emissions. It's not silly to reduce CO2 emissions in light trucks and cars, but at most reducing those sources would only cut about 15% of U.S. CO2.
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Re:Norway's electric cars zip to new record: almost a third ... by bronson on Wednesday January 02, 2019 @03:14PM (#18809723)
"only 15%"? That's huge!
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Re:Norway's electric cars zip to new record: almost a third ... by microcolonel on Wednesday January 02, 2019 @03:22PM (#18809806)
Keep in mind, this is in a country where light trucks and SUVs account for a huge proportion of personal vehicles, and where the average age of a car on the road is about twelve years. As the window of vehicle years shifts further, you can expect that proportion to shrink.
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Re:Norway's electric cars zip to new record: almost a third ... by londons_explore on Thursday January 03, 2019 @06:27AM (#18814370)
Citation for exhausts having significantly less NOx than city air?
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Re:Norway's electric cars zip to new record: almost a third ... by microcolonel on Thursday January 03, 2019 @05:15PM (#18819875)
> Citation for exhausts having significantly less NOx than city air?

I absolutely, unequivocally, did not say that.

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