UK’s best CO2 ratings
The UK’s Department of Transport has just launched an interesting new site that offers some great environmentally friendly tips, especially for buying new cars. Considering that most of these cars are available in South Africa, it should be quite useful for us too.
The handiest feature of the site is their “Best on CO2 rankings” page that lets you simply choose the category of car you’re interested in, and displays the cars with the best CO2 emissions figures. According to the site, if everybody who bought new cars chose the highest ranked car in whichever category, the UK’s vehicle-related CO2 emissions would be reduced by 24%. The site also includes some handy economical driving tips, and a less handy (for South Africans, at any rate) savings calculator.
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I think looking at CO2 alone is a simplification, yes, but bear in mind that the UK taxes vehicles based on their CO2 output so this site is of obvious use for British consumers.
For us here, it’s still useful as a guideline, but for much more in-depth emissions info on vehicles check out Car Fuel Data link in the blogroll. There you can get information on CO2, NOx, CO, hydrocarbon and particulate emmissions for a very large selection of vehicles.
Isn’t looking at just CO2 output over-simplifying things a bit? We’ve discussed this before actually… I see the diesels all come up first as the results are obviously sorted on CO2 figures, but diesels are also notorious for their high NOx output compared to similar capacity petrol engines.