A lot of pressure recently came upon carmakers in Europe to produce cars with greater fuel efficiency and lower CO2 emissions. And several of them are now struggling to cope up with the new EU laws.
In the midst of all this, British government’s advisor Richard Parry-Jones, who’s also a , revealed that cars account for around 10% of the man-made carbon dioxide emissions, whereas transportation overall results in 23% of the emissions. The bulk, he said, is the ‘gift’ of power plants, domestic heating and business operations. But he still advocated carmakers should do more to cut emissions.
“For every passenger kilometer traveled in an average car in the UK today, about 130g/km is emitted, compared with about 100g/km for an average bus and 80g/km for an average train,” . “If motoring is to be made sustainable, the figure for cars must be cut to about 30g/km, but we will have the technology to achieve that by 2050.”
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