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This!Most vehicles use very little fuel while at idle. It saves very little fuel in fact. All vehicles use most of the fuel for acceleration, maintaining speed and cruise operations. A very small fraction is used during moments at idle.
My '16 Fiesta ST uses 0.1 litre per hour when idling with a warm engine, and significantly more than that during starts, especially cold starts. I'm glad it doesn't have any of the start-stop bollocks.
I have two things to say to that:But its not about the total energy required, entirely. The offensive to reduce exhaust from vehicles is simply a health issue. Air pollution places a toll on public health, which makes healthcare more expensive. Its a simple cost/benefit thing. AdBlue is a similar measure. It serves to reduce NOx.
A lot of things we do now use more energy in production, but gain efficiency or other advantages in usage. Meanwhile, the total carbon/energy footprint of the globe still steadily increases YoY. We can't reduce. The world population is growing, not shrinking, and higher wealth means more of the above solutions come into play for larger groups of people.
We'll gain efficiency. It won't fix a thing, except reducing pollution in high pop density areas where it matters most. The EV is of a similar nature. It won't save the planet...
The US for example might not be the biggest polluter anymore, but that's only because China has surpassed it, and not because of strong reductions in energy usage.
1. I think it's best to avoid stop-and-go traffic altogether, not just for air quality, but also to preserve my mental integrity. I have a policy for myself: if I absolutely have to go to a big city, I use public transport. It tends to be quicker as well.
2. Instead of cutting back personal consumption and condemning ourselves to (sometimes extreme) inconveniences just to support population growth, maybe we could tackle the underlying cause and cut back on population growth itself? If it's an essential need for some people to reproduce like vermin, then a sporty petrol (gasoline) car with no start-stop crap is my essential need, and no one should tell me that there's anything wrong with it.