New Mitsubishi car: 100 miles between charges
From the New Geography (http://www.newgeography.com/) site:
New Mitsubishi Car: Climate Friendlier than New York Transit
by Wendell Cox
6/16/2009
Further demonstrating the ability of technology to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, Mitsubishi has announced development of a lithium battery driven car to be sold within two years. The car, the "MIEV Plug-In Electric First Drive" would travel as much as 100 miles (160 kilometers) between charges.
United States Data and Comparisons: GHG Emissions per Passenger Mile/Passenger KM are indicated below (From power plants---variation is due to mix of fuel sources used in producing electricity)
Average United States: 61 grams/37 grams
Lowest (Vermont): 1.4 grams/0,7 grams
Highest (North Dakota): 102 grams/62 grams
The average GHG reduction compared to the current US automobile and sport utility vehicle fleet average would be 83 percent. The car would emit approximately less than one-half the GHGs per passenger mile as transit in New York area (the best in the nation) and one-fourth the overall US transit average.
European Union Comparison: The MIEV would be 40 percent less GHG intensive than is required by the newly adopted European Union fuel economy requirements for 2020 (the equivalent of 101 grams per passenger mile or 62 grams per passenger kilometer).
The above calculations assume the US national vehicle occupancy rate of 1.6. The comparison to the present fleet includes upstream production and transport activities.
Further demonstrating the ability of technology to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, Mitsubishi has announced development of a lithium battery driven car to be sold within two years. The car, the "MIEV Plug-In Electric First Drive" would travel as much as 100 miles (160 kilometers) between charges.
United States Data and Comparisons: GHG Emissions per Passenger Mile/Passenger KM are indicated below (From power plants---variation is due to mix of fuel sources used in producing electricity)
Average United States: 61 grams/37 grams
Lowest (Vermont): 1.4 grams/0,7 grams
Highest (North Dakota): 102 grams/62 grams
The average GHG reduction compared to the current US automobile and sport utility vehicle fleet average would be 83 percent. The car would emit approximately less than one-half the GHGs per passenger mile as transit in New York area (the best in the nation) and one-fourth the overall US transit average.
European Union Comparison: The MIEV would be 40 percent less GHG intensive than is required by the newly adopted European Union fuel economy requirements for 2020 (the equivalent of 101 grams per passenger mile or 62 grams per passenger kilometer).
The above calculations assume the US national vehicle occupancy rate of 1.6. The comparison to the present fleet includes upstream production and transport activities.
posted by Rob Anderson @ 9:22 AM
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Even if you run cars on happy thoughts, they still hurt when they hit you and take up too much space in dense urban settings.
...and keep you from using your body for locomotion and keep you from interacting with the people around you-- and in general, lower everyone's quality of life and still require massive sibsidies while causing congestion, running over kids, running into buildings, etc.
Yay cars.
Your indictment is nothing but a prosecutor's brief against cars that omits all the positives, including the pleasure and convenience that mobility allows. You bike people---and of course you're a bike person---never discuss the fact that all our goods are delivered by trucks and that the Muni system relies on buses. And then there are the emergency vehicles, like ambulances and police cars. By making an abstract argument against "cars," you can avoid coming to grips with the real-life complexities of our transportation system.
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