Andrea Pontremoli not a fan ofelectric car. This is not the first time that Dallara’s CEO has shown himself to be particularly critical of battery-powered cars: in the past he had already defined the electric transition as a mess, a forcing. This time he reiterated it at the fourth appointment of “Dallara 5.0: the future takes shape”, As reported on Quattroruote.
“I have a very personal opinion, I am a bit against the tide. I don’t believe in electric. We have two huge problems: one is pollution, CO2, and the other is an energy problem. If we don’t see these two problems together, we don’t solve them. If I make an electric car to solve the problem of pollution, I create an energy problem. But with what do I produce that energy? I’ll give you a number: the consumption of electricity in Italy is 310 terawatt hours per year. If tomorrow morning the 32 million cars we have in Italy were all electric, they would consume another 310 terawatt hours per year.. So we have to double the energy production. We are creating a problem for ourselves“Said Pontremoli.
The manager then explained that politics plays a role in this path: “The automotive world, pushed by politicians, is sliding towards this thing and no one has the courage to say that it is not possible. And everything is driven by politicians who are misreading their role. I expect a politician to give me the goal ‘to pollute zero, you find a way to do it’. It will be with electricity, hydrogen, nitroglycerin … But let industry do the industry. If you say ‘you have to go electric’, you have already done two things: you have given an obligation on a technology and you are creating an energy problem on the other side. And what is being done? The old coal plants are reactivated, which are the least efficient solution we have to produce energy“.
So what could it be the Pontremoli solution? Dallara’s CEO quotes Aramco, the Saudi oil company that is sponsor of F1 and the Aston Martin team: “They have a photovoltaic field in the desert in Arabia of 120 kilometers by 120 kilometers that produces a few million kilowatt hours of electricity that is used to separate hydrogen from oxygen using sea water. Then they combine the hydrogen with CO2. They put this syntethic fuel into normal pipelines so they can distribute it on traditional oil channels. Already now there are cans of synthetic petrol that can be used on today’s engines: only the injection needs to be changed. It can also be used on ten or twelve cylinders and during combustion you re-release the CO2 you used for production into the atmosphere: therefore from the point of view of carbon dioxide it is neutral.“.
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