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Biden admin moving forward with light bulb bans in coming weeks

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tom66:
I don't see any reason incandescent bulbs would be banned on vehicles: 60W per side of power consumption is nothing compared to the 60kW or so required to cruise on the highway for an ICE (after efficiency losses).  Far better to phase out ICE vehicles instead... which will eventually happen.  Not to make this an EV debate but it's already on the roadmap for most car makers and governments.

mendip_discovery:

--- Quote from: tom66 on April 02, 2023, 09:09:07 am ---I don't see any reason incandescent bulbs would be banned on vehicles: 60W per side of power consumption is nothing compared to the 60kW or so required to cruise on the highway for an ICE (after efficiency losses).  Far better to phase out ICE vehicles instead... which will eventually happen.  Not to make this an EV debate but it's already on the roadmap for most car makers and governments.

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It would be a sneaky way to ban the old direct fossil fuel burning vehicles. Make one of the consumables almost impossible to buy and then let them gradually phase out. They can't ban the cars, that would be political suicide but they can wean us off them by just making it awkward to use them. It's not like the 2 most direct routes I have to the motorway are protected by clean air zones.

AVGresponding:
It's trivially easy to fit LED or HID H-x replacement lamps anyway.

Jackster:

--- Quote from: AVGresponding on April 02, 2023, 09:45:34 am ---It's trivially easy to fit LED or HID H-x replacement lamps anyway.

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You "have" to replace the whole fixture on most modern cars (pre-LED modern) if you upgrade to LED as the beam pattern is based on filament bulbs.
At least in the UK, you should fail MOT (yearly vehicle check to see if it is roadworthy) if you use LED bulbs in a filament-based fixture if the beam is modified outside of spec.

BrianHG:

--- Quote from: tom66 on April 02, 2023, 09:09:07 am ---I don't see any reason incandescent bulbs would be banned on vehicles: 60W per side of power consumption is nothing compared to the 60kW or so required to cruise on the highway for an ICE (after efficiency losses).  Far better to phase out ICE vehicles instead... which will eventually happen.  Not to make this an EV debate but it's already on the roadmap for most car makers and governments.

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And yet, in some US states, it is still currently illegal to have 'Day Beam' headlights or run your headlights during the day because of the slight extra load on your alternator, wasting a few tea-spoons of gas over the year.

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