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In the automotive market, times are changing. The future is apparently electric, but there is still a long way to go. Governments have been supporting the purchase of “green” vehicles, but are they plug-in hybrids?
Associação Zero says that plug-in hybrid cars, considered “green”, in light of the legislation, are an environmental disaster.
Hybrids: Real emissions that can be almost double those announced.
ZERO had already drawn attention to plug-in hybrid cars. According to the data, sales of electric cars in Portugal already represent around 58% of that market in 2020 (in October the trend worsened: PHEVs represented 70% of the tram market).
In Portugal, sales of plug-in hybrids are in the premium segment, which in practice are PHEV “front”, emitting in real conditions of use as much or more carbon dioxide (CO2) than a similar conventional vehicle.
In a statement released this Monday, Zero reveals the conclusions of a study by the European Federation for Transport and Environment, to which it belongs, and according to which this type of vehicle (PHEV) registers real emissions that can be almost double those announced, based on tests "in real conditions" of use carried out on the three best-selling models in Europe in 2019: a BMW X5 (the PHEV available in the market with greater autonomy), a Volvo XC60 and a Mitsubishi Outlander.
According to Zero ...
The study concluded that, even under optimal test conditions, in which the vehicles are used as sparingly as possible and with fully charged batteries, their emissions are between 28% and 89% higher than those recorded in the tests .
If they are used in conventional mode, that is, using the combustion engine exclusively, these cars emit three to eight times more CO2. [dióxido de carbono] than the tests indicate
Francisco Ferreira from Associação Ambientalista Zero calls on the Portuguese Government to put an end to tax benefits on the purchase of hybrid cars. The state support was around 43 million euros, which Zero wants to spend on "truly green" technologies.
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