Mazda Says Improved Gasoline Cars Cut Need for Electric Vehicles
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Mazda Motor Corp., running counter to the industry’s shift toward electric vehicles, says rapid improvements in conventional-engine technology mean non-gasoline cars won’t be needed on a mass scale to solve pollution woes.
The automaker says electric cars may be more polluting than vehicles with internal combustion engines if the electric power isn’t from a clean source. It estimates the level of carbon dioxide emitted by a gasoline-engine Mazda2 at about 9 percent less than the 162 grams-per-kilometer attributed to an electric version of the car whose power comes from a coal-fired plant.