So-called “technology neutrality”
Whenever electricity is used, you can calculate how much CO2 could have been recycled from the atmosphere instead.
The big myth of “technology neutrality”: The idea is that an e-fuel car and a hydrogen car emit just as little CO2 as an electric car, provided the electricity is generated without CO2 emissions. For many years, the concept of “technology neutrality” has been politically hyped. A lot of money has been wasted on this nonsense.
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Let's expose this nonsense
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There’s this electric car that uses 16 kWh per 100 km. There’s this hydrogen car that uses 1 kg per 100 km. 39.4 kWh/kg calorific value. 65% electrolysis efficiency, and suddenly it’s 60.6 kWh/kg. 16 kWh/kg to liquefy it and transport it to the fueling station. 6 kWh/kg to pressurize it to 700 bar and fill the tank. That brings the total to 82.6 kWh/kg. The big, bold claim: if everything is powered by clean electricity, then it doesn’t matter whether it’s an electric car or a hydrogen car.
Then there's e-fuel: with 25 kWh of electricity for one liter of diesel, even my Dacia Lodgy, which I drove extremely economically, would come in at 4.35 × 25, or 108.7 kWh/100 km.
It is estimated—optimistically, but realistically—that 6 kWh of electricity is needed to filter 1 kg of CO2 from the atmosphere and break it down into oxygen and carbon. We will be using this technology on a large scale in the future to return CO2 levels to a safe 350 ppm.
Whenever electricity is used, you can do the math to figure out how much CO2 could have been recycled with it.
Example
(All values in the right-hand columns are in g CO2/km)
| CO2 Emissions
directly
| Recycling CO2 would have
one can
| Total
Evaluation
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Electric car: 15 kWh/100 km
Stommix 0
| 0
| 25
| 25
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Hydrogen car: 1 kg/100 km
82 kWh per 1 kg
| 0
| 137
| 137
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E-Fuel Car 5 l/100 km
25 kWh per liter
| 0
| 208
| 208
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Electric car: 15 kWh/100 km
Stommix 100
| 15
| 25
| 40
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Electric car: 15 kWh/100 km
Stommix 200 g CO2/kWh
| 30
| 25
| 55
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Electric car: 15 kWh/100 km
Stommix 300 g CO2/kWh
| 45
| 25
| 70
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Electric car: 15 kWh/100 km
Stommix 400 g CO2/kWh
| 60
| 25
| 85
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Electric car: 15 kWh/100 km
Stommix 500 g CO2/kWh
| 75
| 25
| 100
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Hydrogen car: 1 kg/100 km
but with 100 g of CO2 per kWh of electricity mix
| 82
| 137
| 219
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E-Fuel Car 5 l/100 km
but with 100 g of CO2 per kWh of electricity mix
| 125
| 208
| 333
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The electricity mix for electric cars is, on average, cleaner than the average electricity mix. Many electric car drivers have electricity plans based on spot market prices. Spot market prices are lowest when a large supply of solar and wind power drives prices down.
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That should go without saying
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It should be! But it isn't. How else can you explain the 270 million € subsidy for the BMW hydrogen car? All these projects involving hydrogen buses and hydrogen trucks? Lobby groups are being set up where projects then rake in subsidies for the biggest nonsense.
Can we win people over with really great new batteries for electric car projects? Is this the big proof that we’re better than CATL and BYD? That’s very difficult, if not impossible. The only way out is to come up with “Hydrogen Is So Great” projects. In these projects, entire networks are painstakingly built up to construct castles in the air about a hydrogen future in transportation.
The oldest case I have documented is the 2013 study by the Fraunhofer Institute titled “Market Ramp-Up of Electric Cars.”
BYD and Tesla were omitted from this study. The global market leaders of yesterday, the global market leaders of today. This study contributed to the German auto industry’s slumber. How many jobs in the German auto industry has this study cost, and how many more will it cost?
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