The most (and least) eco-friendly European cars
The German ADAC car club and its Spanish counterpart, RACC, have released their annual “Eco-Test” report.
According to the report, the 5 most eco-friendly cars in Europe are:
- Toyota Prius Executive
- Volvo V70 2.4 bi-fuel Momentum, using Compressed Natural Gas
- Honda Civic 3i-DSi hybrid
- Skoda Octavia Combi RS TDI (RPF) - The first diesel in the ranking because of an anti-particulate filter.
- Skoda Octavia 1.6 FSI Ambiente
The least eco-friendly cars are:
- Hyundai Terracan 2.9 CRDi GLS Automatik
- VW Fox 1.4 TDI
- Fiat Panda 1.3 JTD Multijet 16V Cross 4×4
- KIA Rio 1.5 CRDi EX Top
- VW Sharan 2.8 V6 Highline Tiptronic
The score was made taking in consideration the following parameters: The Euro emissions tier (currently passenger cars should adapt to Euro IV), the level of particles at the exhaust pipe, mileage and CO2 emissions per km. It’s the high levels of particluate emissions that causes diesels to perform so badly in this report.
This following list ranks car makers by their overall fleet reduction in CO2 since 1997:
- Fiat: 169 to 139 g/km
- Citroën: 172 to 144 g/km
- Renault: 179 to 149 g/km
- Ford: 180 to 151 g/km
- Peugeot: 177 to 151 g/km
- Opel/Vauxhall: 180 to 156 g/km
- Toyota: 189 to 163 g/km
- Kia: 202 to 170 g/km
Unfortunately, I don’t speak Spanish, so I can’t provide more details of the full report (available here). If anyone would like to translate for me, drop me a mail :p
Source: Autoblog Green
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Good to see Fiat make progress on that front, they’ve been making some cool little cars lately. Pity we don’t get them very quickly but they’re moving in the right direction.
Notice how the worst offenders are big heavy vehicles with auto ‘boxes and/or diesels! Particulate filters for diesel engines can’t come soon enough.