Automobile Industry

Percentage of Green Cars

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There is some thought that the President Elect wants to ban Green Cars. It turns out green cars are slightly more popular in rural areas then urban areas, though green isn't a popular color for automobiles these days.
You might ask green cars are more popular in rural areas. For one, green used to be a more popular color for cars and cars in general are older in rural areas, but also Subaru is one few modern makes that sells cars with green paint these days.

 

Smoggy Volkswagons

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It should be noted that the illegally polluting Volkswagen TDI produce as much NOx as a model year 1998-2004 Tier 1 (0.3 g/mi). Which is much higher then the current Tier II Bin 5 standard of 0.02 g/mi, which they are accused of violating, but far below historic pre-controlled cars of the 1960s, that put out 3.0-3.5 g/mi.

So if you have a 10-year old car, it is likely putting out as much NOx as the new Volkswagon TDI. But that’s not an excuse — if everybody has to follow the law for current model year cars — so should Volkswagon. 10-year old cars are becoming rarer on the road, and will mostly be scrapped within the next few years.

Smoking

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Cities aren’t the same nowadays when cars don’t regularly backfire on streets, and buses and trucks don’t bletch out black smoke.

It’s only been 10 years since they switched over low-sulfur diesel on buses and trucks to dramatically reduce the black smoke, and era of streets filled with old cars running carburetor engines out of tune is only 15 years or so ago.

Then again, I’m too young to remember when most city buildings were covered with thick black soot from the smoking engines.