Thanks Lars. This is a fascinating case indeed, and could in the end help turn the tide from diesel to (hopefully) electric vehicles. It's good to see some European nations setting dates for banning sales of diesels and going electric.
If anyone cares, I wrote a rather personal blog for Brookings.edu at the time the scandal broke, and another about the U.S. settlement, which is interesting because it included money for owners and also funding for states to use on things like installing charging stations and switching to electric city buses. My stories are personal since I was such a VW lover and had a diesel Jetta. I haven't done the intellectual work yet to put it into a political economic framework, but it's brewing. And we all need to update our stories with the spreading scandal. As someone interested in the "just transition" off of fossil fuels, there is going to need to be a pathway for all those diesel engineers and others up and down the commodity chain to survive this transition. My observation on the simplicity of electric vehicles suggest that there will be much less maintenance work, and probably far less parts suppliers (2,000 moving parts in an internal combustion engine, 20 in an electric vehicle; see https://perspicacity.xyz/2017/05/24/this-is-how-big-oil-will-die/). https://www.brookings.edu/blog/planetpolicy/2015/09/23/after-a-long-love-affair-ill-never-look-at-a-vw-the-same-way/ https://www.brookings.edu/blog/planetpolicy/2016/06/29/why-i-like-the-volkswagen-emissions-settlement/ Best to all, Timmons On Tue, Aug 8, 2017 at 9:49 AM, Lars H. Gulbrandsen <[email protected] > wrote: > Dear Colleagues, > > > > In light of the Volkswagen scandal two years ago and recent revelations > that “dieselgate” was the product of a secret cartel far beyond Volkswagen, > there might perhaps be renewed interest in our 2014 article about the very > complicated making and implementation of EU legislation to reduce carbon > emissions (not NOx) from passenger cars. This article, published in Review > of Policy Research, is available here (subscribers only): > > > > http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ropr.12100/full > > > > Just send me an email if you would like a PDF of the article. > > > > If you rather would like to read the new report about “dieselgate”, see > Der Spiegel (German, paywall) – also picked up by a number of > English-language news media: > > > > https://magazin.spiegel.de/SP/2017/30/152270400/index.html > > > > All best, > > > > Lars H. Gulbrandsen, PhD > > Deputy Director and Research Professor > > Fridtjof Nansen Institute > > P.O. Box 326, 1326 Lysaker, Norway > > Tel. (+47) 975 40 217 <+47%20975%2040%20217> > > www.fni.no > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "gep-ed" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Timmons Roberts @timmonsroberts Ittleson Professor of Environmental Studies and Sociology Director, the Climate and Development Lab www.climatedevlab.brown.edu Brown University https://vivo.brown.edu/display/jr17 Non-Resident Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution http://www.brookings.edu/experts/robertst -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
