Being Green - 7 July 2017

--:--
WILL TECHNOLOGY AND ENGINEERING SAVE THE PLANET?

Things are happening fast in technology and development, or are they?
The Swedish-Chinese owned motor manufacturer Volvo created quite a stir this week by announcing the end of the internal combustion engine as we know it.
From 2019 Volvo will be turning out cars and trucks that are not ICE based. They will be all-electric, no other mode of propulsion; or hybrid, that is with a small petrol motor to recharge the battery. So that’s not quite the end of the car engine we all know and rely on, is it? Diesel though will be on the decline, in developed countries, including China. Diesel, once hailed as the solution, turns out to be bad for health because the NOx or nasty nitrous compounds in the emissions that get into the air. So more stringent emission control is needed, and that adds to the cost of the vehicle. The Volkswagen exhaust pollution-fraud debacle didn’t help either. So this is the beginning of the end for the I C E? Maybe.
7 Jul 2017 English South Africa Health & Fitness

Other recent episodes

Being Green - 22 Mar 24_Zoe Gauld-Angelucci from Greenpops

In this week’s edition of Being Green, Glynis Crook speaks to Greenpop’s Zoe Gauld-Angelucci about the organisation’s incredible urban greening and forest restoration projects and the Reforest Fest is it holding in the Overberg on the Easter weekend.
22 Mar 6 min

Being Green - 01 Mar 24_Wavescapes Surf and Ocean Festival

In this week’s edition of Being Green, Glynis Crook speaks to Shani Judes, director of the Wavescape Surf and Ocean Festival which takes place from 1-14 March. It features a host of events focusing on ocean conservation, including a beach clean-up, documentaries, and a charity auction of surfboards painted by…
1 Mar 6 min