ChrisWei | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 18 2006 | automobile
For a truck, my Tacoma rates well on the ashma index.
- ChrisWei | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 14 2006 | environment, CO2 emissions, automobile, news
Interesting... the use of more aluminum in a car, which makes a vehicle lighter and therefore more fuel efficient, actually raises the overal CO2 emission cost of the vehicle since the production of (virgin) aluminum generates 10 time the CO2 per ton of steel.
- ChrisWei | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 14 2006 | CO2 emissions, environment, automobile
At a talk last night by Tim Flannery, the topic of buying a new Hybrid versus continuing to drive an old vehicle came up yet again. But as can be seen from this website, the CO2 emission equivalent of embodied energy in a vehicle is trivial (6%) compared to the vehicle use (75%) and fuel production costs (19%). So go buy that Prius.
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- ChrisWei | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 31 2006 | automobile, audi, blogs
About time... good diesel cars in the US when the diesel regs change.
