chutzpah
Veteran Member
- Joined
- Feb 2, 2000
- Location
- Austin, TX
How does one obtain reliable statistics on a car's emissions, including soot, NO<sub>x</sub>, CO<sub>2</sub>, PM2.5/5/10, etc? I'd be happy with either a freely-available, detailed compilation of lots of cars if it included mine, or with a place where I can get my car tested myself. I don't live in an area where emissions testing is required.
http://www.greenercars.org/ has a compilation they'll sell you for $8 or so, but the samples they give you are reduced down to a "green score" that's useless for anything other than comparing one car to another based on their word on the relative impacts of various quantities. So I'm hesitant to buy a list that doesn't have enough information. I want details!
It would also be valuable to see information on gas and diesel models we can't get in the US. Will manufacturers release this information?
Knowing the emission standard a car meets is one thing, and general knowledge such as diesel-engines-produce-less-CO<sub>2</sub>-than-gassers is a start, but to fight the good fight, we need to be able to point at a list that says, "here are the facts. This car produces 10% more of x per mile than that car, while it uses 35% less fuel." Also, "because of the low-sulfur diesel available in Europe, their TDI's PM numbers are such-and-such as compared to American TDIs."
http://www.greenercars.org/ has a compilation they'll sell you for $8 or so, but the samples they give you are reduced down to a "green score" that's useless for anything other than comparing one car to another based on their word on the relative impacts of various quantities. So I'm hesitant to buy a list that doesn't have enough information. I want details!
It would also be valuable to see information on gas and diesel models we can't get in the US. Will manufacturers release this information?
Knowing the emission standard a car meets is one thing, and general knowledge such as diesel-engines-produce-less-CO<sub>2</sub>-than-gassers is a start, but to fight the good fight, we need to be able to point at a list that says, "here are the facts. This car produces 10% more of x per mile than that car, while it uses 35% less fuel." Also, "because of the low-sulfur diesel available in Europe, their TDI's PM numbers are such-and-such as compared to American TDIs."