Volkswagen scandals have sentenced the diesel engine to death

When, in September 2015, the US Environmental Agency announced
Volkswagen was cheating to hide emissions brutally superior to those declared, something changed in the world. Tha fact that their vehicles remained best-selling in the world, is an indicator that users were not worried about poisoning their planet in return. To have cheap and powerful cars. Sustainability as a false, artificial concern, unreal, as hypocritical as the principles of corporate social responsibility of Volkswagen. However, something had changed. Volkswagen scandals have sentenced the diesel engine to death. Last Wednesday, Volvo announced its commitment to stop making fossil fuel engines: by 2019, all your vehicles will carry electric motors or plug-in hybrids. The measure is not as drastic as it seems.

Some hybrids of the brand equip electric motors with scarcely thirty kilometers of real autonomy, almost an excuse to use high occupancy lanes or to park without pay. But the measure is very positive: the Swedish brand was the first to put a date, but it will not be the last. Burning oil is not cool anymore, what's cool is drive an electric. Finland, a major oil producer, prohibits its use in heating from 2020. Tesla announces that this Friday launches the highly anticipated Model 3, its first vehicle with a price considered "reasonable". Many brands, including the legendary Porsche, would include Electric motors in their vehicles. If you intend to acquire one through leasing, the financial allocates a ridiculous residual value to the vehicle and generates quotas absurdly higher, when in fact, electric vehicles depreciate
Less.

Tony Seba a Stanford professor

says that fossil fuel vehicles will disappear in a few years: the electric will be cheaper, will spoil less, will last longer (twenty moving parts compared to more than two thousand), and we will use them as service, not as good on property that remains inactive 97% of the time. We're going to face a drastic and rapid transition, in very few years, it is not apocalypse: it is overwhelming logic.