Petrol prices have risen again in the UK. Campaigners call on the government not to raise duty, but surprisingly little is said about switching to higher mileage models. I’ve been looking at Volvo, who have a good reputation in this regard. The new Volvo V40 gives fuel consumption of 78.5 mpg. —— In the 1980s we… Continue reading
Posts tagged CO2
Canadian resort shows how to tread lightly on the environment
Taking a long distance, expensive holiday can test your conscience. You worry about the Co2 emissions from the flight, about that big expensive hotel with all those staff and that enormous heating (or air conditioning) bill. Isn’t the best model for sustainable tourism a cosy little “staycation” in your home country to which you travel… Continue reading →
Which is more important – a car’s top speed or its Co2 output?
The Week includes a weekly “New Cars” section, a useful digest of what motoring journalists are saying about the latest models. Useful, that is, unless you’re interested in the one detail which we are said to to care about more than anything else as drivers, the cost of fuelling our cars. Very often these vital… Continue reading →
Tread lightly on the planet, Swedish style
A Swedish family has cut its CO² output by 80% in a six-month experiment, using available technology allied to some not too drastic domestic behavioral change. Nils andAlicia Lindell and their children Hannah and Jonathan lived in a purpose-built, solar panel and hydro-electricity powered house in Hasselby Villastad in the suburbs of Stockholm. The parents… Continue reading →
Could "Boris Bikes" concept extend to electric cars in London?
Here is is a story from history – or August 9, 2007, to be precise. “Ken Livingstone has ordered a feasibility study into a scheme which would see travellers hiring and dropping off bikes from street corners. The Mayor of London has been inspired by a scheme that was introduced in Paris just weeks… Continue reading →
Car plant to generate enough solar power to make 7000 cars a year.
There’s nothing like a wind turbine to excite local passions, and fill village halls to bursting with angry villagers who have nothing against renewable energy except that they don’t want it here. Solar panels are harder to oppose. The best opponents of one particular scheme close to where I live could come up with was… Continue reading →