Coming in 2030... “F1 to go diesel“, followed a decade later by “F1 to go coal”

Does show we get bullied into the next clean engine really. IMO we should be developing cleaner tech on petrol engine aiming at frugal 3cyl 1.0 turbos and the like for cars rather than electric.

I was trying to figure out some numbers if we all went “clean electric” the other day, just basing it off the cost of filling up a tesla at home. We’d end up using about 3 times the electricity we were (and that’s a very conservative estimate).

Aside from the impossible feat of the grid physically coping our power supply in the UK is currently made up by the majority of 42% of burning fossil fuel lol.


Its basic physics we’re always told you can’t get something without putting more in and electric cars are no exception. Whether it be the 42% of the battery charge coming from burning fossil fuel or the manufacture of their battery in the first place, the carbon footprint I can’t see being much different than a well developed modern petrol DI engine. Either that or we need to cover the globe in solar panels connected to inductive under road charging systems haha.