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, also believe that it is less polluting because… is Euro 4! Normal seek confirmation for its argument and it's pretty easy to find in a few clichés – like the one on battery disposal – or even in some magazine articles that try to get more clicks and consensus rather than make information, 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investigations of 2012 already accused at the time of being partial and incomplete and now completely anachronistic and outdated data, but he is filming also by some journalists as “proven evidence” that an electric vehicle is more polluting than a combustion.

In the area of ​​emissions were made strides (just think of the very efficient modern diesel), Houses Europe especially have invested a lot but… you can not make miracles.

Let's do it easy: the combustion engine entails its conformation for the production of scraps the… combustion. 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 increasingly stringent regulations have ended up “plug” increasingly our beautiful engines. 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?“.

At least let's not pretend that this has no consequences and not hide behind the “so the bike polluter little”. 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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