The electric motorcycle pollutes more than a normal motorcycle?

Maybe you've recently bought a motorcycle Euro 4. You bled dry and rightly well as feel it beautiful, ritieni anche che sia poco inquinante perché… è Euro 4! Normale cercare conferme alla propria tesi ed è piuttosto facile trovarle tra alcuni luoghi comuni – come quello sullo battery disposal – o addirittura in alcuni articoli di riviste che cercano più di ottenere click e consensi anziché fare informazione, as I explained here.

I will not go now about the investigations of 2012 already accused at the time of being partial and incomplete and now completely anachronistic and outdated data, ma riprese ugualmente da alcuni colleghi giornalisti come “prova provata” che un veicolo elettrico sia più inquinante di uno a combustione.

In the area of ​​emissions were made strides (just think of the very efficient modern diesel), le Case soprattutto europee hanno investito molto ma… you can not make miracles.

Let's do it easy: the combustion engine entails its conformation for the production of scraps della… combustione. Just stand behind any car or motorcycle also new to smell the stench of exhaust smoke. Or am I alone? The concept is explained in a very simple and elementary from Physical Rossi Albertini in this video:

Obietterai that your motorcycle latest generation Euro 10-to-square does not fart unburned and CO2 as the Motom 48 your grandfather. Vero. Ma…

An endothermic will never be virtuous

As a smoker who switches from 20 cigarettes a day 5, is not that he quit smoking.

Similarly to how much effort has been made, an endothermic engine will never be virtuous as an electrical where there is no combustion and there are no frictions. On this we must resign, is a known truth from the beginning of the motorization.

To remedy today in a nineteenth wrong choice

Even then it was known the higher the electric efficiency but They did not know the effects that the combustion of oil products have on our health and on our planet. Now we know. At the time of the competitive advantage of the oil that, come said in this article is an excellent way to store energy, It was rewarding.

And if for the current burn-carbon fossil?

Another point in which the electric detractors cling relates to the production of electricity, still good due to non-renewable sources. This just so that pollute more than electric motorcycle un'endotermica?

Assolutamente no. We admit that all the electricity that we use for our bike comes from coal-fossil. Also in this case, in the calculation of the entire life cycle, we would still have an environmental benefit to use the power and, last but not least, we would in any case a centralized source of the pollution and not many small sources of pollution around our city. Fortunately things, however,, They are already much better than that!

The energy mix is ​​seeing even in Italy a rising share of renewable (now exceeding 30% of the total) perciò… Also this myth to debunk.

Engines plugged drains and open

We have all experienced how normative sempre più restrittive abbiano finito per “tappare” sempre di più i nostri bei motori. To keep (if not increase) the performance as required by the marketing, engine sizes have grown, It is necessarily increased the electronic management engine now also heat up more than in the past and if you make little headway will be destroyed before. November bikers, and then, we have the habit of changing the drain, perché “You want to put a nice open drain?“.

Perlomeno non facciamo finta che questo non abbia delle conseguenze e non nascondiamoci dietro al “tanto la moto inquina poco”. For the environment go bike is better than going by car for many reasons, but it may not be enough to make us feel virtuous.

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