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Originally Posted by Jerome74911S
I make the case that my '74 makes less pollution than the majority of modern cars on the road today. My car isn't a daily driver - more like weekly, and only during a very short summer - and so it only gets driven 3,000 to 5,000 miles per year (5,000 to 8,000 kms). With this limited usage, which is even lower this year, I don't put as much garbage into the air as my 'clean' modern car that gets driven 40k per year. I don't have the specific numbers to support this argument, but in any case the pollution is minimal, in perspective.
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I suspect a tailpipe test would indicate otherwise. A more modern car with a catalytic converter likely generates less than one-fifth of the pollution your '74 pumps out, especially as it is air cooled.
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Originally Posted by Jerome74911S
After all, there is an environmental cost for generating the electricity going into the super clean electric car, it's just out of sight and out of mind. This helps to clean up the cities, but not the general environment to the extent that most of the public imagines.
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As for the electric portion you would need to look at all the contributors to greenhouse gas produced by generating the electricity. In your province the majority is hydro-electric is it not? Add in the superior efficiency of the generating station and the electric car may still be cleaner. If all the power were produced by coal, then maybe not so much.