UK Officials Slap Renault's Fingers for Claiming British Electricity Is As Clean as France's.

[NNadir]

It doesn't get any better than this:

Renault rapped for UK electric car advert
12 May 2010

French carmaker Renault has been ordered to change a UK advert for its forthcoming range of electric cars as it was considered misleading by citing figures based on the French electricity generation mix, which relies more on clean nuclear energy.

Renault plans to launch four models of all-electric Zero Emission (ZE) vehicles by the end of 2012: the ultra-compact Twizy ZE; the Zoe ZE hatchback; the Fluence ZE saloon; and the Kangoo ZE small van.

In a UK national press advertisement, Renault claimed that the "well-to-wheel efficiency of a Renault Fluence ZE will help reduce CO2 emissions by at least 90% compared to a current diesel model," the 1.5-litre Megane Hatch. However, in the small print Renault said that this calculation was based on French figures, where the majority - some 75% - of electricity is produced by nuclear power plants.

The UK's Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) received a complaint from a reader who said that the advert was misleading because the 90% figure was based on the French electricity mix, not on the UK's, which relies on nuclear energy for only about 18% of its electricity.

http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/EE-Renault_rapped_for_UK_electric_car_advert-1205104.html">Renault rapped for UK electric car advert.

Have a nice http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/10/1016_TVhypercar.html">Hydrogen HYPErcar kind of evening.

[reggie the dog]

1. nuclear is so not clean

windmills, solar panels, dams, that is clean, nuclear waste, not so much so;....

[Statistical]

2. Nuclear emits far less CO2 than wind/solar backed up by fossil fuel plants.

Unless you only want power from 11am-2pm or when wind is blowing. :rofl:

[reggie the dog]

3. do you leave in the dead zone of a reactor in case of an incident

like so many millions of us do in France?

[FBaggins]

4. No... we live in the dead zone

of coal/oil/gas, unlike so many millions of you in France.

[Statistical]

5. Actually I live 12.2 miles from Surry Nuclear power plant.

When I was growing up I lived about 1.5 miles from it.

I have absolutely no fear of nuclear power. I am about 1000x more likely to die from sharks than I am from a meltdown. I still go to the beach despite the "massive" risk I take everytime I get in the water.

When you look at all the natural and made made sources of death nuclear energy isn't even in the top 1000.

[reggie the dog]

6. ok, the real problem is storing the waste

it is cleaner than coal, but the radioactive waste is nasty stuff, and we have had problems with leaks of that shit in france