Comment on VW solid-state battery retains 95% capacity over 1,000 charge cycles in lab testing
pozbo@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I hope they try turning the wheels a bit while they do their testing, I’d hate to have another diesel emissions scandal involving explosive batteries and their efficacy.
RaoulDook@lemmy.world 10 months ago
The diesel emissions scandal is nothing to worry about as a consumer. The details matter - what they did was make the cars more fuel efficient by adhering to European emissions standards, which weren’t legal in America.
As a car buyer I’d have preferred to have the more efficient car with the EU legal emissions than the “fixed” ones that followed.
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 10 months ago
VW violated EU and UK emission laws too. They were not legal.
apnews.com/general-news-f09159b5446a2c71953ac363e…
…m.wikipedia.org/…/Volkswagen_emissions_scandal
wikibot@lemmy.world [bot] 10 months ago
Here’s the summary for the wikipedia article you mentioned in your comment:
The Volkswagen emissions scandal, sometimes known as Dieselgate or Emissionsgate, began in September 2015, when the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a notice of violation of the Clean Air Act to German automaker Volkswagen Group. The agency had found that Volkswagen had intentionally programmed turbocharged direct injection (TDI) diesel engines to activate their emissions controls only during laboratory emissions testing, which caused the vehicles’ NOx output to meet US standards during regulatory testing. However, the vehicles emitted up to 40 times more NOx in real-world driving. Volkswagen deployed this software in about 11 million cars worldwide, including 500,000 in the United States, in model years 2009 through 2015.^article^ ^|^ ^about^
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Why would anyone want this bot? If I’m summarizing wiki and include a link, why does a bot need to do it again but worse because it doesn’t summarize the relevant part.
Siegfried@lemmy.world 10 months ago
You see, those regulations are for cars, what we are seeing here are bodyworked, paired, single command, fully mothorized bycicles… it’s not the same