Talk:Green vehicle

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Contents 1 99.9% = Junk Science 2 Definition 3 old discussion 4 bikes 5 Battery Acid 6 Green Vehicle Showroom

[edit] 99.9% = Junk Science

Oh come on, find one example of dust to dust vehicular transport that has a carbon impact of only 0.1% of a normal car. Greg Locock (talk) 13:27, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Definition

"A green vehicle is a vehicle that is considered to be more "environmentally friendly" than traditional all-petroleum internal combustion engine vehicles (APICEVs). This is accomplished by having a low dust to dust energy cost."

I'm tempted to ask "says who?". That is a pretty agenda-filled sentence. Is a petrol powered car that gets 140 passenger miles per gallon less green than an electric car that creates the same CO2 per passenger mile? That sentence says it is. Greg Locock (talk) 21:39, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] old discussion

A petroleum car that uses biodiesel is more ecological than a gasoline or petrol car, but it ´s not a green car, because it cannot use a CO2-free energy. (Not true, net CO2 in the atmosphere remains the same on a seasonal time-scale as CO2 used with sunlight and water produce oils for biodiesel, and cellulose and sugars can be used to create bio-alcohols. These can be used to run normal internal combustion engines, or hybrids).

These ones that only uses renewable energy (a hydrogen or electric car) are more ecological green vehicles than an hybrid car). (Electric and Hydrogen are not renewable; they are only a means of storing energy, and that energy comes most economically from old coal plants that grandfather their way into existence, nuclear power, whose plants are old designs and not as safe as they future ones may be, or large-scale hydroelectric projects.)

[edit] bikes

what about bikes? Are not they the best green vehicles?--GengisKanhg (my talk) 22:04, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Battery Acid

I would argue that the massive amounts of battery acid used in Hybrid vehicles which need to be kept from the water table of the planet disqualify the hybrid as a green vehicle.

Can you provide a link to information about this so-called "massive" amount of acid? I mean, how massive can it be when the batteries take up such a small space, and, uh, NiMH batteries are used in some cars (the Prius, for example). Is there much acid in those ones? PeterHansen 23:52, 27 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Green Vehicle Showroom

There is also a car dealer called Green Vehicle Showroom in Los Gatos See http://m.siliconvalley.com/articles/263990 --HybridBoy 12:31, 15 October 2007 (UTC)