2012: Electric Bus Conference Munich

Grotesque differences in consumption between electric buses and hydrogen fuel cell buses. Nevertheless, a lot of research money continues to be sunk into hydrogen vehicles.

eCarTec and Electric Bus Conference Munich October 2012

BYD reported on test drives throughout Europe with a 12 m electric bus. 90 to 140 kWh electricity consumption per 100 km.

409 km test drives in Barcelona with 126.85 kWh/100 km.

2697 km test drives in Budapest with 115.39 kWh/100 km

End of August 2012 183 km Mountain test on the Gaisberg near Salzburg with 112.65 kWh / 100 km. The 840 m from Salzburg Gnigl up to the Gasibegspitze, the battery is at 87%. Down the 840 m again, the battery is charged to 92%. While a vehicle with a combustion engine only converts potential energy into thermal energy when driving downhill, here the battery has been charged by 16 kWh. On a smaller scale, this happens every time you brake at a stop, every time you brake at a red light.

Mercedes claims that its latest fuel cell bus uses 10 to 14 kg of hydrogen per 100 km. The older model had a horrendous consumption of 20 to 24 kg.

1 kg of hydrogen contains 33 kWh of thermal energy. Electrolysis and compression into the high-pressure tanks require around 45 kWh of electricity for 1 kg of hydrogen. The fuel cell bus therefore requires 350% more electricity than the electric bus.

The high cost of producing hydrogen is also reflected in the price: EUR 9.50 per kg (April 2016 Hannover Industrial Fair). Converted by energy content, this corresponds to EUR 2.82 per liter of diesel. The 12 kg of hydrogen average consumption at this price is EUR 114. Diesel buses of this size consume 40 to 45 liters of diesel. The BYD electric bus 90 to 140 kWh of electricity.

Politics - political targets of PEGE
	Nonpolitical, pragmatic, on the other side of ideologies counts in our politic only one target: A long time lasting civilization able to develop further on a stable base.

Philosophy
	Long-term planning and stability have to be the guiding rules of politics. A philosophy based on the mathematic branch of games theory.

Living standard
	What is living standard? How is living standard correctly measured? Is it possible, that our living standard declines drastic, while uncorrect numbers want to make us belive it's like paradise?

Taxes tax politics
	The consequences of the tax politic for humans and environment. The politicians claim to fight for humans and the environment, but the tax politics shows the exact opposit.

Energy politic
	Decades of wrong energy politic. Instead of more living standard with less energy usage, partial the contrary was reached. A result of the wrong tax politic.

1992: The Rügen Experiment
	From 1992 to 1996, research minister Heinz Riesenhuber and environment minister Angela Merkel demonstrated the unsuitability of electric cars on the island of Rügen.

2007: The Merkel failure begins
	The first appeal to Merkel to prevent the German car industry from resting on its laurels and falling behind was made on January 31, 2007.

2008: Merkel in the oil price crisis
	The oil price crisis should have led to important industrial policy decisions in the German car industry. Instead, pathetic whining for lower oil prices

2009: China announces drastic licensing regulations
	The Chinese counterpart to Economics Minister Sigmar Gabriel: "Have you seen a single petrol scooter? They don't exist any more, they can no longer be registered, only electric scooters".

2010: Electric car with a range of 300 km
	The sensation at the Geneva Motor Show: the first family-friendly electric car with a range of 300 km. With the BYD e6, electromobility is breaking out of narrow niche markets.

2011: The fraud formula for plug-in hybrid consumption measurement
	Germany has been unable to reduce the EU's CO2 emission targets for the car industry. But the cheating formula for the whitewashing of plug-in hybrids is working.

2013: Study on the market launch of electric cars
	The German car industry has even managed to corrupt the state-affiliated Fraunhofer research institute. An unscientific study on the market for electric cars shows this.

2014: Tesla announces 50 GWh battery factory
	The size of the planned factory shows the intention to sell not only in the luxury class. With the production capacity, a broad attack on the upper mid-range is possible.

2015: VW Dieselgate
	Large-scale fraud as industrial policy and the consequences if it is discovered. German politicians have systematically created an environment in which Volkswagen thought it could get away with it.

2016: China shock 8% quota rule for electric cars
	Years of deep sleep in the German car industry, a few rolling declarations of abandonment to claim that they were building electric cars. But then the wake-up call from China.

2017: Merkel sees black for the German car industry
	At a meeting with her colleagues from the EU according to information from SPIEGEL, the Chancellor touched on a sensitive topic: the foreseeable decline of a German flagship industry.

2017: EU wants fuel consumption measurement in cars from 2020
	For the insider, it is a defense against large-scale fraud; for the uninformed citizen, it is the total surveillance state. Background information on the planned consumption measurement.

2018: Diesel driving ban
	Germany does not have a government, but a reaction. Instead of active shaping, there is only reaction to disasters of all kinds.