In modern times climate protection becomes increasingly more important. Thus even the automobile industry has to join in for selling their products. For this they usually make use of well-known car fairs on which they can utilize the effect of greenwashing.
During the presentation of their e-cars and hybrid cars they give it a totally ecofriendly image.
But Greenpeace and experts already calculated a worse environmental balance for e-cars than for cars with a gasonline or diesel engine. Only when the current will come from renewable energies the balance might become positiv. Even the production of the rechargeable batteries is extremely environmentally harmful.
Nevertheless the automobile industry wants to make the consumers believe that e-cars are ecofriendly due to the fact that they do not emit exhaust gases. But the exhaust gases accrues during the generation of current.
Yes, even the prefixes "e" and "green," on everything from cars to building codes, is an interesting phenomenon. A simple letter in front of a word suddenly makes it appealing to a large consumer (and Garrard would say "soft environmental") group.
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