Mini cleans up in emissions table
Mini is the car to have made the biggest strides in cutting CO2 emissions over the last year, according to a new comparison table.
The data put together by website Clean Green Cars suggest that, overall, car manufacturers have made only modest steps to reduce emissions across their range of models in the past year.
Mini however appears to have knocked a rather hefty 17.1% off their average CO2 emissions, which have dropped from 181.8 grams per kilometer to 150.8 grams. According to the researchers, this is partly due to the development of highly efficient diesel engines.
Clean Green Cars claims that its interpretation of how car manufacturers are performing is useful because it marries data on the number of sales of different models with each model’s official CO2 output. This gives a ’sales-weighted’ average, which the site claims is less skewed by the odd low-emission (or the odd high-emmission) model in the manufacturer’s range.
See their website for the full rundown.
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Originally posted 2007-11-03 12:20:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
