Easier to blame the EU than take responsibility
It is now an established practice in the capitals of Europe to blame the EU for the things that national governments don't want to take responsibility for. The latest episode of this blame game is dieselgate and the reluctance of key auto markets (Germany, UK, France, Netherlands, Italy, Spain) to properly enforce EU law and make carmakers (cheaters-polluters) pay.
As our director of clean vehicles, Greg Archer, put it: “Carmakers are choosing to play at home with a biased referee, guaranteeing that they win but their cars pollute and people die. What else than Dieselgate do you expect when Germany approved Mercedes, France Renault, the UK Jaguar and Italy Fiat? Either we break the cosy relationship between national authorities and their car brands with effective European supervision and independent testing or the cheating will continue.”
You won't hear me defending the EU a lot but this is a no-brainer.
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Lead Innovator - Hypuljet Ltd UK
8yNico it is about time someone in the know put the truth out there. Germant even argued to have the latest rules downgraded so that Euro 6 is not even meeting Euro 5 The answer is of course to move to hydrogen electric, since EVs connecting to the Grid for Recharge are in the main sending their emissions to a Coal Fired or Gas Fired power station, which makes Plug in EVs another questionable change but not really Clean Energy. I have had a concept for a Hydrogen and Oxygen Pulse Jet Rotary Engine-generator since 2008-9 before that a more mundane H2 rotary more turbine from 1980. I hit on Oxygen enrichment of the compressed air when I was drafting the Patents for a) Hydrogen from Batteries and b) the H2 Turbine. At this point I started to call it an engine as I was able to change the design to have the combustion chambers on the outer circumference to blast the rotor in a more confined space. I arrived at two improvements during 2015, one stops or reduces NOx formation and will also make a substantial reduction an Fuel consumption and this was at such a low level that it made on board fuel a possibility. Improvement two, amounts to a major redesign of the engine, to make better use of the improved Pulse Jets which the first improvement creates. This provides a separate drive to a dedicated generator specifically to power the on board Hydrogen and Oxygen fuel production system. I have just entered the Green Challenge, in an attempt to get funding. I am also about to make a Crowd Funding bid as a more positive attempt to get funding. The thing which stinks, is that as an individual innovator I am disenfranchised from entering Open funding competitions by Innovate UK. At the same time Daimler is awarded £3.5 at 50% funding to adapt KERS from F1 to coaches to save 17% emissions That is £7 million to ADAPT an existing technology by Williams Engineering. It appears that Innovate UK can hand out Corporate welfare to help continue with diesel engines for some years, but will not, is not prepared to look at a the details of Hydrogen Rotary Engine-generator which will have Zero emissions. I have to agree with you, the situation is fixed, and in more ways than you have put forward, new innovation is stymied and whilst Zero emissions is for sure I am also confident that it will be fuel on board. The future of Clean Energy is without doubt Hydrogen, but it is not the way that it is being directed at present. Generation as close to the point of use as possible, with hydrogen production either on the engine or the engine or in the case of a static generator taking a House Off-grid produced in the garage. Best Regards Al Scott