SUVs emit more climate damaging gas than older cars do, study finds
SUVs emit more climate damaging gas than older cars do, study finds
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How is this news? Yes, you need more energy to move a larger heavier object…Granted, the older engines might not be the most efficient but they weren’t that bad that you can compensate a weight increase of this magnitude!
No shit sherlock
I hear that billionaire's private jets are worse than SUVs
Individually, sure, but there are a lot more SUVs. Enough that they account for more total emissions.
Seems obvious compared to smaller cars. How about compared to pickups? Those are probably worse?
Yeah, old pickups were gas guzzlers. But pickups as ordinary commuter cars are incredibly rare in the UK.
It's a major problem that they're mostly sold for that purpose in the US.
"Light trucks" (in the US, at least) don't have to meet the same fuel economy standards as passenger automobiles, the latter of which includes SUVs. So you build a massive luxury crew cab with a tiny, essentially useless bed, and you can emit more pollution than if it had a permanent "cover" and connected the passenger cabin with the cargo area.
Old pickup trucks?
My first pickup - 1985 Nissan pickup (manual) averaged 25mpg.
My current 2022 Chevy 1500 company owned work truck gets 19mpg.
Of course the old Nissan weighed 2500 lbs. My Chevy work truck weighs in at 4400lbs.
So fuel efficiency per weight has increased, but the newer trucks larger size still sucks gas.
I still prefer the smaller trucks, so much easier to drive.
What utter bullshit. The "study" was made by a biased party that want zero emissions. The study was not provided. No facts whatsoever.
They compared an old car from 2013 with a current suv. Not an old car like a golf 3 that has way worse emissions than a golf 8.
Just because a car is large doesn't mean it's polluting much more. Or does a polo gti pollute less than a seat ateca 1.5? Nope.
That it is massive means it needs to use more energy to accelerate. Choosing big vehicles where smaller ones will do is a real problem