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hope-for-the-planet · 2 years

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“European Parliament lawmakers on Wednesday voted to support an effective EU ban on the sale of new petrol and diesel cars from 2035, rejecting attempts to weaken the proposal to speed Europe's shift to electric vehicles.”

#electric car #EVs #good news #hope #environment #climate change #sustainability #politics #electric vehicles #internal combustion cars

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unidentifiedfuckingthing · 4 months

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home knitting machines are so weird. like theyre such a gimmick right? like a sodastream or something? wrong they were invented in the 1500s

#people talk about how fucked up it is that medieval peasants were named tiffany but nobody talks about how fucked up it is that cars #and the internal combustion engine were invented before zippers

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carrosinfoco · 8 days

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Bad oil and changing it outside of the period clogs Anti-Flame and Carbonizes the Engine

Poor quality oil and late oil changes, what can this cause? Check out what happened to my car below. The victim, unfortunately, was my first car. A 2008 Volkswagen Gol 1.0 that seemed to work perfectly to a layman, but driving the golzinho is when I started to notice some very strange things. With the air conditioning on, I decided to renew the internal air and turned off the recirculation…

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#car maintenance #internal combustion engine #lubricating oil #oil change #vw gol

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dilib · 11 months

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Cars emit 1% of CO2: HERE IS THE EVIDENCE

It has been said multiple times that the CO2 emissions from European cars account for 1% of the total, but without showing how such a low number is reached. Consequently, many doubt that this is the case, and it's understandable since a devastating impact on the automotive industry should be justified by other significant climate benefits. The European Parliament has a page dedicated to "CO2 Emissions from Cars: Numbers and Data." It states that "the transport sector is responsible for 30% of the total CO2 emissions in Europe, of which 72% comes from road transport alone." Undoubtedly, these are significant figures. What about cars? Even worse: "They account for 60.7% of the total CO2 emissions." Apart from the fact that we're not talking about pollutants but climate-altering gases (the Parliament knows it, but who reads it?), the attached infographic clarifies that the 60.7% refers to emissions from transportation, out of the initial 30%. Let's take the ones from 2019. Transportation emitted 0.825 gigatons (billions of metric tons) of CO2, of which 60.7% from cars would be 0.501 gigatons. Now, all that remains is to weigh this half a billion against the total global emissions: how many are they? The EEA doesn't say, of course, but according to the International Energy Agency, they were approximately 50 gigatons in 2019. That explains the 1% and why it's so difficult to find the data and why nobody ever cites it as support for phasing out internal combustion engine cars. CO2 emissions in Europe are declining, but they are increasing by 1% every three years globally. Just three years to render useless the benefit derived from the destruction of the European automotive industry. Stopping internal combustion engine cars by 2035 is not wrong because it sacrifices jobs. It's just a futile measure pursued out of trendiness and tolerated out of cowardice.

#sports cars #cars #engines #motorsport #internal combustion engine #motorbike #bike #racing #emissions #europe #climate change

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awesome-casuallyfamouscollector · 1 year

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Overheated Chevy Cruze / Sonic 1.4 Turbo LUV Engine Teardown. Don't Drink Coolant, It'll Lock You Up

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Today's Tiny Teardown, a 1.4L Turbocharged 4 cylinder from a Chevrolet Cruze. This LUV/LUJ Engine is found in the Cruze and the Sonic, and is notoriously unreliable. In this video, I tear this overheated engine completely down to find out how bad it really is. This engine was supplied by Premier Automotive in East Alton, IL! My name is Eric and I own and run a full service auto salvage business called Importapart located in the Saint Louis MO area. Part of our model is dismantling and selling parts from rare and niche market engines. I don't build or rebuild engines, we simply supply hard parts to those that do!

P.S. This is also a fairly typical internal combustion engine size for the European car market! Properly maintained and monitored, they last quite a long time, however, these turbocharged engines, which are so common in new cars, are no longer as easy to repair as the natural aspiration engines of the previous generation...! Pay attention to damage to the turbocharger and other parts of the overheated engine...!

#Saint Louis #ICE vehicle repair #internal combustion engine #chevy cruze #technology history #car #USA #Europe

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mostlysignssomeportents · 7 months

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"Efficiency" left the Big Three vulnerable to smart UAW tactics

Tomorrow (September 22), I'm (virtually) presenting at the DIG Festival in Modena, Italy. Tomorrow night, I'll be in person at LA's Book Soup for the launch of Justin C Key's "The World Wasn’t Ready for You." On September 27, I'll be at Chevalier's Books in Los Angeles with Brian Merchant for a joint launch for my new book The Internet Con and his new book, Blood in the Machine.

It's been 143 days since the WGA went on strike against the Hollywood studios. While early tactical leaks from the studios had studio execs chortling and twirling their mustaches about writers caving once they started losing their homes, the strikers aren't wavering – they're still out there, pounding the picket lines, every weekday:

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/09/how-hollywood-writers-make-ends-meet-100-days-into-the-writers-guild-strike.html

The studios obviously need writers. That gleeful, anonymous studio exec who got such an obvious erotic charge at the thought of workers being rendered homeless as punishment for challenging his corporate power completely misread the room, and his comments didn't demoralize the writers. Instead, they inspired the actors to go on strike, too.

But how have the writers stayed out since May Day? How have the actors stayed out for 69 days since their strike started on Bastille Day? We can thank the studios for that! As it turns out, the studios have devoted so much energy to rendering creative workers as precarious as possible, hiring as little as they can getting away with and using punishing overtime as a substitute for adequate staffing that they've eliminated all the workers who can't survive on side-hustles and savings for six or seven months at a time.

But even for those layoff-hardened workers, long strikes are brutal, and of course, all the affiliated trades, from costumers to grips, are feeling the pain. The strike fund only goes so far, and non-striking, affected workers don't even get that. That's why I've been donating regularly to the Entertainment Community Fund, which helps all affected workers out with cash transfers (I just gave them another $500):

https://secure2.convio.net/afa/site/Donation2?df_id=8117&8117.donation=form1&mfc_pref=T

As hot labor summer is revealed as a turning point – not just a season – long strikes will become the norm. Bosses still don't believe in worker power, and until they get their minds right, they're going to keep on trying to starve their workforces back inside. To get a sense of how long workers will have to hold out, just consider the Warrior Met strike, where Alabama coal-miners stayed out for 23 months:

https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/warrior-met-strike-union/

As Kim Kelly explained to Adam Conover in the latest Factually podcast, the Alabama coal strikers didn't get anywhere near the attention that the Hollywood strikers have enjoyed:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvyMHf7Yg0Q

(To learn more about the untold story of worker organizing, from prison unions to the key role that people of color and women played in labor history, check out Kelly's book, "Fight Like Hell," now in paperback:)

https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Fight-Like-Hell/Kim-Kelly/9781982171063

Which brings me to the UAW strike. This is an historic strike, the first time that the UAW has struck all of the Big Three automakers at once. Past autoworkers' strikes have marked turning points for all American workers. The 1945/46 GM strike established employers' duty to cover worker pensions, health care, and cost of living allowances. The GM strike created the American middle-class:

https://prospect.org/labor/2023-09-18-uaw-strikes-built-american-middle-class/

The Big Three are fighting for all the marbles here. They are refusing to allow unions to organize EV factories. Given that no more internal combustion cars will be in production in just a few short years, that's tantamount to eliminating auto unions altogether. The automakers are flush with cash, including billions in public subsidies from multiple bailouts, along with billions more from greedflation price-gouging. A long siege is inevitable, as the decimillionaires running these companies earn their pay by starving out their workers:

https://www.businessinsider.com/general-motors-ceo-mary-barra-salary-auto-workers-strike-uaw-2023-9

The UAW knows this, of course, and their new leadership – helmed by the union's radical president Shawn Fain – has a plan. UAW workers are engaged in tactical striking, shutting down key parts of the supply chain on a rolling basis, making the 90-day strike fund stretch much farther:

https://prospect.org/blogs-and-newsletters/tap/2023-09-18-labors-militant-creativity/

In this project, they are greatly aided by Big Car's own relentless pursuit of profit. The automakers – like every monopolized, financialized sector – have stripped all the buffers and slack out of their operations. Inventory on hand is kept to a bare minimum. Inputs are sourced from the cheapest bidder, and they're brought to the factory by the lowest-cost option. Resiliency – spare parts, backup machinery – is forever at war with profits, and profits have won and won and won, leaving auto production in a brittle, and easily shattered state.

This is especially true for staffing. Automakers are violently allergic to hiring workers, because new workers get benefits and workplace protection. Instead, the car companies routinely offer "voluntary" overtime to their existing workforce. By refusing this overtime, workers can kneecap production, without striking.

Enter "Eight and Skate," a campaign among UAW workers to clock out after their eight hour shift. As Keith Brower Brown writes for Labor Notes, the UAW organizers are telling workers that "It’s crossing an unofficial picket line to work overtime. It’s helping out the company":

https://labornotes.org/2023/09/work-extra-during-strike-auto-workers-say-eight-and-skate

Eight and Skate has already started to work; the Buffalo Ford plant can no longer run its normal weekend shifts because workers are refusing to put in voluntary overtime. Of course, bosses will strike back: the next step will be forced overtime, which will lead to the unsafe conditions that unionized workers are contractually obliged to call paid work-stoppages over, shutting down operations without touching the strike fund.

What's more, car bosses can't just halt safety stoppages or change the rules on overtime; per the UAW's last contract, bosses are required to bargain on changes to overtime rules:

https://uaw.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Working-Without-Contract-FAQ-FINAL-2.pdf

Car bosses have become lazily dependent on overtime. At GM's "highly profitable" SUV factory in Arlington, TX, normal production runs a six-days, 24 hours per day. Workers typically work five eight-hour days and nine hours on Saturdays. That's been the status quo for 11 years, but when bosses circulated the usual overtime signup sheet last week, every worker wrote "a big fat NO" next to their names.

Writing for The American Prospect, David Dayen points out that this overtime addiction puts a new complexion on the much-hyped workerpocalypse that EVs will supposedly bring about. EVs are much simpler to build than conventional cars, the argument goes, so a US transition to EVs will throw many autoworkers out of work:

https://prospect.org/labor/2023-09-20-big-threes-labor-shortages-uaw/

But the reality is that most autoworkers are doing one and a half jobs already. Reducing the "workforce" by a third could leave all these workers with their existing jobs, and the 40-hour workweek that their forebears fought for at GM inn 1945/46. Add to that the additional workers needed to make batteries, build and maintain charging infrastructure, and so on, and there's no reason to think that EVs will weaken autoworker power.

And as Dayen points out, this overtime addiction isn't limited to cars. It's also endemic to the entertainment industry, where writers' "mini rooms" and other forms of chronic understaffing are used to keep workforces at a skeleton crew, even when the overtime costs more than hiring new workers.

Bosses call themselves job creators, but they have a relentless drive to destroy jobs. If there's one thing bosses hate, it's paying workers – hence all the hype about AI and automation. The stories about looming AI-driven mass unemployment are fairy tales, but they're tailor made for financiers who get alarming, life-threatening priapism at the though of firing us all and replacing us with shell-scripts:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/03/09/autocomplete-worshippers/#the-real-ai-was-the-corporations-that-we-fought-along-the-way

This is why Republican "workerism" rings so hollow. Trump's GOP talks a big game about protecting "workers" (by which they mean anglo men) from immigrants and "woke captialism," but they have nothing to say about protecting workers from bosses and bankers who see every dime a worker gets as misappropriated from their dividend.

Unsurprisingly, conservative message-discipline sucks. As Luke Savage writes in Jacobin, for every mealymouthed Josh Hawley mouthing talking points that "support workers" by blaming China and Joe Biden for the Big Three's greed, there's a Tim Scott, saying the quiet part aloud:

https://jacobin.com/2023/09/republicans-uaw-strike-hawley-trump-scott/

Quoth Senator Scott: "I think Ronald Reagan gave us a great example when federal employees decided they were going to strike. He said, you strike, you’re fired. Simple concept to me. To the extent that we can use that once again, absolutely":

https://twitter.com/American_Bridge/status/1704136706574741988

The GOP's workerism is a tissue-thin fake. They can never and will never support real worker power. That creates an opportunity for Biden and Democrats to seize:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/18/co-determination/#now-make-me-do-it

Reversing two generations of anti-worker politics is a marathon, not a sprint. The strikes are going to run for months, even years. Every worker will be called upon to support their striking siblings, every day. We can do it. Solidarity now. Solidarity forever.

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/21/eight-and-skate/#strike-to-rule

#pluralistic #strikes #uaw #labor #automakers #big three #big car #eight and skate #work to rule #tactics

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probablyasocialecologist · 4 months

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Musk never had any intention of building the Hyperloop. He only needed it to help kill or substantially delay the high-speed rail project and the alternate vision of sustainable collective transportation it offered. It threatened his interests as an automaker and his elite vision of “individualized” mobility that simply worked better for him.

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In the time since California started talking about high-speed rail and Elon Musk interjected with his fantasy to help sidetrack it, China moved ahead and built a network consisting of 42,000 kilometres (26,000 miles) of track. Europe is continuing to expand its own network, and Japan is building a maglev line that will run at speeds of over 500 km/h (310 mph). The first segment from Tokyo to Nagoya could open by 2027. Not to be outdone, China is working on a maglev of its own to beat its Japanese rivals. While the Hyperloop deception spread far and wide, nowhere was it stronger than in the United States. As countries around the world moved forward with real transport improvements, North Americans were distracted by the fantasies of clueless, but self-confident tech moguls. They left people trapped in their cars and denied better options to get around that people in many other parts of the world — even those that are quite a bit poorer — take for granted. Now all they can do is shovel money at automakers to try to power cars with batteries instead of internal combustion engines. They have no vision for a better, less car dependent alternative.

#elon musk #hyperloop #high speed rail #paris marx

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lenbryant · 2 years

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I had to wonder what exactly Happy Dad was delivering. Oh my. "Happy Dad?" What's in your seltzer? My pal Gerry and I were having a breakfast meeting at a cafe in West Hollywood this morning. The two of us and Miss MoMo had a table on the sidewalk under the yellow umbrellas. But it was so noisy at times we could barely hear each other. Between the rumbling delivery trucks that left their engines running while they parked on the curb, and the thundering din of morning commute traffic on Santa Monica Blvd., it's a wonder we all weren't rendered deaf by the end of our meal. The decibels were off the charts. Not charming, Los Angeles. Sidewalk dining should be more civilized. Anyway, with our ears ringing from all the noise, I was AMAZED to see a big FedEx delivery truck glide silently down the street. This FedEx truck was brand-spanking new, slick, gleaming, futuristic looking and TOTALLY SILENT because it was an electric vehicle. It was making no noise at all. We were so delighted we gave the driver a big thumbs up as he came to the intersection. He smiled and waved, knowing how cool he looked in his futuristic vehicle next to those gas churning, noisy dinosaurs around him. Here's hoping the age of the fume-spewing, obnoxiously loud internal combustion engine is finally over soon.

#happy dad #hard happy dad #oh my #delivery truck #what does he deliver exactly?#electric vehicles #electric cars #noise #the age of the internal combustion engine is over #cars #internal combustion engine #go green

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