Escape, Edge, TC to be KilledA lot of ifs in there. As a chemical engineer who worked both chemical industry and automotive know something of the requirements. Hydrocarbon or chemical processing requires much safety analysis and permitting required. These industries require large capital expenditures, favoring large corporations and mega billionaires. The talent and materials need to build to scale is limited. Each company and contractor has finite resources. To do this in 10 or even 20 years, this would be something in lab testing or semi works now. The usual response is, with a WW II type effort... Well I have worked in WW II built facilities in both industries. (I'm old, but not that old). Looking at the facilities and documents, they could not have been built today.
Over the years we have found that different compounds have different emissions characteristics. Testing would change to measure effectively. When low emission gasoline with better octane rating was desired, oil refiners added Ethanol or MTBE. MTBE reduced emissions especially in older, poorly tuned vehicles. Concerns about emissions caused MTBE to fall out of favor and be eventually banned.
In conclusion, mature ICE technology is still here, but probably not be advanced on an unproven supposition. BEVs and battery technology have developed, but the experience is still short of some customer expectations. Some to the point they will not consider.Tue, 05 Sep 2023 21:11:05 +0000
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