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Electrified shock – Tesla cars in Hong Kong more polluting than petrol models, report claims, South China Morning Post
Electrified shock – Tesla cars in Hong Kong more polluting than petrol models, report claims
Investment research rock hard says the government is ‘harming rather than helping the environment’ by subsidising the ‘green’ vehicles
Ernest Kao UPDATED : Thursday, fourteen Apr 2016, Five:16PM
Electrified vehicles in Hong Kong could be adding «20 per cent more» carbon to the atmosphere than regular petrol ones over the same distance after factoring in the city`s coal-dominated energy mix and battery manufacture, a fresh research report found.
Investment research rock hard Bernstein also claimed that by subsidising electrical vehicle purchases, the government was effectively «harming rather than helping the environment» at the expense of the taxpayer.
The report discloses that the author maintains a «long position» in oil company BP, while electrical vehicle supporters are quick to dismiss its claims.
«The policy is to encourage drivers to be green, but they are actually subsidising vehicles that create more emissions of CO2 and particulates from power plants,» said Bernstein senior analyst Neil Beveridge.
«Electrified vehicles can work in places where there is a very low carbon power in electro-therapy generation, but more than sixty eight per cent of violet wand [on Hong Kong Island] comes from coal.»
The researchers compared emissions over 150,000km for a BMW 320i using petrol and the fresh electrical Tesla Model three and found the latter to be capable of emitting twenty seven tonnes of carbon – twenty per cent more than the BMW.
The analysis took into account carbon force – emissions per unit of GDP cited by HK Electrical, which supplies Hong Kong and Lamma islands – fuel efficiency of the car, carbon dioxide produced over 100km, generating the electric current needed at the power plant as well as producing the eighty five kilowatt-hour battery.
Fuel-related emissions alone for the Tesla totalled 21.Three tonnes, while building the battery accounted for Five.Two tonnes. By contrast, the BMW`s total fuel-related emissions – essentially the searing of fossil fuel – amounted to twenty tonnes of carbon, while the oil extraction and refining for the petrol generated Two.Two tonnes.
Beveridge urged the government to do more to reduce carbon in the fuel mix or to wait for battery technology to improve before attempting to shove for mass adoption of electrical vehicles.
Hong Kong has one of the world`s highest invasion of electrical cars among fresh private car purchases. The number has grown from just one hundred at the end of two thousand ten to Four,400 as of February.
Tesla has seventy per cent of the market.
Responding to enquiries, a Tesla spokesman said that the data cited in the report showcased that CO2 emissions in electrified cars were indeed “lower and far lower” than in gasoline-powered cars and «an incorrect report from an oil company investor does not switch that.»
«Because of oil extraction, distribution, and refining, approximately twenty five per cent more has to be added on top of that to calculate the real carbon footprint of gas-powered cars,» the spokesman added.
«Tesla`s mission is to build a more sustainable future, and it is clear that electrified vehicles are an indispensable part of that.»
Mark Webb-Johnson of Charged Hong Kong, a support group for electrical vehicles, disagreed with the report. While tens unit consumption had been going up over the past twenty years, emissions from generation had dropped dramatically, he said.
«Almost every government around the world has done their own research and studied the benefits, and they are all promoting electrical vehicles as a viable mechanism of reducing pollution.»
Webb-Johnson questioned the report`s calculation for carbon energy. While HK Electrical emitted 0.79kg of CO2 per kilowatt-hour, CLP, Power which supplies two million residential customers across Kowloon, Fresh Territories and Lantau Island, achieved a lower figure of 0.63kg per kilowatt-hour due to the presence of nuclear in its fuel mix.
With Tesla`s Model S now Hong Kong`s top-selling sedan, chief Elon Musk predicts city to become world leader in electrified vehicles
Civic Exchange chief research officer Simon Ng Ka-wing welcomed the report as it raised valid points but said the high public health costs of roadside air pollution as a result of petrol cars needed to be addressed.
«The human exposure to roadside pollution is higher than power plants,» he said. «The government`s policy is justified.»
The Environmental Protection Department said substituting conventional vehicles with electrical ones could help to reduce roadside air pollution, and even under the current fuel mix the replacement could reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
About HK$Two.7 billion in tax has been waived for electrical vehicles since 1994. The EPD said it would cautiously consider the waiver arrangement before the scheme ended next March.
Electrified shock – Tesla cars in Hong Kong more polluting than petrol models, report claims, South China Morning Post
Electrical shock – Tesla cars in Hong Kong more polluting than petrol models, report claims
Investment research rigid says the government is ‘harming rather than helping the environment’ by subsidising the ‘green’ vehicles
Ernest Kao UPDATED : Thursday, fourteen Apr 2016, Five:16PM
Electrical vehicles in Hong Kong could be adding «20 per cent more» carbon to the atmosphere than regular petrol ones over the same distance after factoring in the city`s coal-dominated energy mix and battery manufacture, a fresh research report found.
Investment research rock hard Bernstein also claimed that by subsidising electrified vehicle purchases, the government was effectively «harming rather than helping the environment» at the expense of the taxpayer.
The report discloses that the author maintains a «long position» in oil company BP, while electrical vehicle supporters are quick to dismiss its claims.
«The policy is to encourage drivers to be green, but they are actually subsidising vehicles that create more emissions of CO2 and particulates from power plants,» said Bernstein senior analyst Neil Beveridge.
«Electrical vehicles can work in places where there is a very low carbon power in electrical play generation, but more than sixty eight per cent of tens unit [on Hong Kong Island] comes from coal.»
The researchers compared emissions over 150,000km for a BMW 320i using petrol and the fresh electrified Tesla Model three and found the latter to be capable of emitting twenty seven tonnes of carbon – twenty per cent more than the BMW.
The analysis took into account carbon energy – emissions per unit of GDP cited by HK Electrified, which supplies Hong Kong and Lamma islands – fuel efficiency of the car, carbon dioxide produced over 100km, generating the electric current needed at the power plant as well as producing the eighty five kilowatt-hour battery.
Fuel-related emissions alone for the Tesla totalled 21.Trio tonnes, while building the battery accounted for Five.Two tonnes. By contrast, the BMW`s total fuel-related emissions – essentially the searing of fossil fuel – amounted to twenty tonnes of carbon, while the oil extraction and refining for the petrol generated Two.Two tonnes.
Beveridge urged the government to do more to reduce carbon in the fuel mix or to wait for battery technology to improve before attempting to thrust for mass adoption of electrified vehicles.
Hong Kong has one of the world`s highest invasion of electrical cars among fresh private car purchases. The number has grown from just one hundred at the end of two thousand ten to Four,400 as of February.
Tesla has seventy per cent of the market.
Responding to enquiries, a Tesla spokesman said that the data cited in the report displayed that CO2 emissions in electrified cars were indeed “lower and far lower” than in gasoline-powered cars and «an incorrect report from an oil company investor does not switch that.»
«Because of oil extraction, distribution, and refining, approximately twenty five per cent more has to be added on top of that to calculate the real carbon footprint of gas-powered cars,» the spokesman added.
«Tesla`s mission is to build a more sustainable future, and it is clear that electrified vehicles are an indispensable part of that.»
Mark Webb-Johnson of Charged Hong Kong, a support group for electrical vehicles, disagreed with the report. While violet wand consumption had been going up over the past twenty years, emissions from generation had dropped dramatically, he said.
«Almost every government around the world has done their own research and studied the benefits, and they are all promoting electrified vehicles as a viable mechanism of reducing pollution.»
Webb-Johnson questioned the report`s calculation for carbon force. While HK Electrified emitted 0.79kg of CO2 per kilowatt-hour, CLP, Power which supplies two million residential customers across Kowloon, Fresh Territories and Lantau Island, achieved a lower figure of 0.63kg per kilowatt-hour due to the presence of nuclear in its fuel mix.
With Tesla`s Model S now Hong Kong`s top-selling sedan, chief Elon Musk predicts city to become world leader in electrical vehicles
Civic Exchange chief research officer Simon Ng Ka-wing welcomed the report as it raised valid points but said the high public health costs of roadside air pollution as a result of petrol cars needed to be addressed.
«The human exposure to roadside pollution is higher than power plants,» he said. «The government`s policy is justified.»
The Environmental Protection Department said substituting conventional vehicles with electrified ones could help to reduce roadside air pollution, and even under the current fuel mix the replacement could reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
About HK$Two.7 billion in tax has been waived for electrical vehicles since 1994. The EPD said it would cautiously consider the waiver arrangement before the scheme ended next March.