Do you know that you can reduce your carbon footprint with green vehicles? Even though commuters can offset their carbon footprint through biking and walking, when driving a car is inevitable, consider green vehicles. It is evident that industry and government efforts to develop and commercialize electric, hybrid, alternative fuel, and cleaner-running gasoline and diesel vehicles would be successful only if consumers understood the benefits of these fuels and technologies…
Reduce Your Carbon Footprint with Green Vehicles
Potential buyers needed to become comfortable with the concept of advanced technology vehicles before they would be willing to buy them in significant numbers. Resources such as the Green Car Institute, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that encourages the development and widespread use of alternative and clean fuel vehicles, and EPA’s Green Vehicle Guide that gives information about the environmental performance of vehicles and provides the user with dynamic search and sort capabilities, will foster greater understanding of the relationship between low emission, clean fuel, and energy efficient vehicles and the environment.
What is a carbon footprint?
A carbon footprint is “the total set of greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions caused by an organization, event or product” . For simplicity of reporting, it is often expressed in terms of the amount of carbon dioxide, or its equivalent of other GHGs, emitted. It is a measure of the amount of carbon dioxide produced by a person, organization or state in a given time.
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What is a green vehicle?
A green vehicle or environmentally friendly vehicle is a road motor vehicle that produces less harmful impacts to the environment than comparable conventional internal combustion engine vehicles running on gasoline or diesel. These vehicles are powered by alternative fuels and advanced vehicle technologies and include hybrid electric vehicles, plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, battery electric vehicles, compressed-air vehicles, hydrogen and fuel-cell vehicles, neat ethanol vehicles, flexible-fuel vehicles, natural gas vehicles, clean diesel vehicles, and some sources also include vehicles using blends of biodiesel and ethanol fuel or gasohol.
How to Reduce Your Carbon Footprint with Green Vehicles
In order to reduce your carbon footprint, you must know how to offset your carbon footprint. In fact, commuters can offset their carbon footprint not only through biking and walking, but changing to a more environmental friendly green vehicles (you may want to check out Green Car of The Year 2011, or a concept car for the future as listed below)
Facile: A Multi-Dimensional Green Vehicle For Future Roads
As a vehicle that can use wind, solar and human energy in various forms to act as a future urban commuter, the Peugeot Facile is one of the best green vehicles of the future that will allow you to both choose your mode of transport and the clean energy that will power it. Depending on the requirement of the commuter, the vehicle can be powered by solar power with integrated panels or human pedal-power, where it can act as a tricycle, monocycle and even a car!