Green Car Congress
APRIL 28, 2010
While technological advances are producing cleaner vehicles, more and more passengers and goods are travelling further distances in Europe, thereby offsetting efficiency gains. Car journeys remained the dominant mode of transport, accounting for 72% of all passenger kilometers in the EU-27. Click to enlarge.
Green Cars News
SEPTEMBER 15, 2009
Portuguese drivers are the greenest in Europe when it comes to buying cars with an average CO2 rate of 138g/km (eg. EU regulation is striving to cut the CO2 emitted by cars to an average figure of 130 g/km by 2015. Director at the ETA, Andrew Davis, said: “Car makers can build green cars, but they need us to buy them.
Green Car Congress
MARCH 30, 2011
A survey conducted by Euro-barometer for the European Commission of nearly 26,000 people in all 27 EU member states found that most Europeans are willing to compromise on performance, size, range and price of their car in order to reduce harmful emissions. Reasons why car users don’t use public transport.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 22, 2009
In 2007 the top polluting sources in the EU-27 were fuel combustion in households, passenger cars, heavy duty vehicles, and in power plants. Heavy duty vehicles are the single most important source of NO x , while passenger cars are among the top 6 polluting sources for CO, NO x , PM 2.5
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